Revisiting Waterton Lakes National Park

Aug 29, 2019 | MLP News, MLP research

The Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) repeat photography crew spent a week at Waterton Lakes National Park in mid-July. For most of the crew this was a first visit to Waterton; what we saw was a very different landscape than what was there two years ago. In September 2017...

A Viewshed of the ‘Lenscape’

Jul 5, 2019 | Historic photos, MLP News, MLP research

[ This post also appears on the Landscapes in Motion blog] What are viewsheds, and why use them? The Mountain Legacy Explorer website (explore.mountainlegacy.ca) provides a map-based tool for investigating Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) collections. Users click on...

Where the (Re)Wild Things Are

Feb 28, 2019 | MLP News

Originally published by Science Borealis. Reposted with permission. Alina C. Fisher & Tanya Samman, Environmental and Earth Sciences co-editors When you stand on a busy street corner waiting for the light to turn so you can cross, do you ever feel overwhelmed by...

MLP photos featured on LensCulture’s Instagram feed

Dec 12, 2018 | MLP News

LensCulture is a photography magazine with a significant following (nearly 750k followers) on Instagram. Each week, they share the work of a photographer who has caught their eye. This week, they are featuring the Mountain Legacy Project! Be sure to follow them to...

Different viewpoints, same landscape: do land-based photos and Landsat imagery paint the same picture?

Dec 5, 2018 | MLP News

(This blog post was first posted on the Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation journal’s website to promote the publication by Julie Fortin, Jason Fisher, Jeanine Rhemtulla and Eric Higgs. See the original post here. See the full peer-reviewed article here.)...