Black Rock Fire Lookout: Legacies and Looking Ahead

Nov 4, 2020 | Historic photos, MLP News

Photo taken by Surveyor J. J. McArthur in 1889. View west from Black Rock Fire Lookout towards Devil’s Head Mountain (centre of photo). By Kristen Walsh, November 4 2020 In 1889, as part of the Rocky Mountains Park and Coalfields Survey, Surveyor J. J. McArthur...

Athabasca Glacier and the Visualization Power of Photography

Sep 15, 2020 | MLP News

By Jess Duncan, Sept 15 2020 In the mid 1950s, two young women in their twenties from the UK came to Canada to embark on a cross country road trip. They travelled across Canada, down through the States and into Mexico. The pair encountered many characters on their...

Drawings from the Field

Aug 19, 2020 | MLP News, Notes from the Field

There is a little box on the bottom right hand side of the Mountain Legacy Project field note sheets that I took as an invitation to sketch the landscape. I took every opportunity to sketch the mountains in our 2019 field season. My fellow team members—Sonia Voicescu,...

Mining, Memories, and Mountains

Jul 14, 2020 | Historic photos, MLP News, MLP research

Have you ever come across towns whose very presence on the landscape hint at multiple stories and complex histories? Perhaps it’s the façade of a particular building that doesn’t quite fit with the more modern design of its neighbours. Or maybe it’s the sinuous way...

Introducing “A century of high elevation ecosystem change in the Canadian Rocky Mountains”

Jun 23, 2020 | Historic photos, MLP News, MLP research

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...

When the cat’s away: Wildlife’s response to human self-isolation due to the pandemic

Jun 17, 2020 | MLP News

Alina C. Fisher and Tanya Samman, originally published on Science Borealis, reposted with permission Currently, self-isolation is the norm for people all over the world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While you’ve been staying home, you’ve been justifiably...