Fieldwork in a time of COVID-19 Part 1: Crowsnest Pass
by Sonia Voicescu, November 24, 2020 With the arrival of the first COVID-19 cases in Canada in late January, and ensuing months of self-isolation and restrictions, a dark cloud of uncertainty reigned over the MLP’s summer fieldwork plans. Our expectations quickly...
Introducing “A century of high elevation ecosystem change in the Canadian Rocky Mountains”
By Mary Sanseverino, June 23, 2020 Just last week on June 16 two intertwined articles, both about landscape change in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, came out. Both were published under the auspices of the Nature Research family of journals, one of the world’s...
Looking back at “Big Ice”: Mt. Logan in the archives
Zac’s post was initially published Dec 7, 2019 on the Mount Logan Ice Expedition’s blog under the title “Archives“. IMAGE Courtesy of Library and Archives Canada, Vine Lynne Canada and Abroad Album, Accession number 1990-087 0576 Archives are...
Who do we want to be here?
The story of ecological change in the Canadian mountain west over the last century provides powerful, poignant testimony about our very different histories and roles in the dramatic changes of the last century. The most important question becomes: who do we want to be here?