Mining, Memories, and Mountains

Mining, Memories, and Mountains

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...
Revisiting Waterton Lakes National Park

Revisiting Waterton Lakes National Park

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’

A Viewshed of the ‘Lenscape’

[ 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...