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International Mountain Day and the Mountain Legacy Project
Did you know that Dec 11th has been designated by the United Nations as International Mountain Day, and has been a day to honour all things “mountain” since 2003? This year the Mountain Legacy Project went all in on celebrating the day — here’s to more time in the mountains!
Mountain Legacy Project researcher, Andrew Trant, featured in Nature article
Andrew Trant, Assistant Professor in the School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. His work was featured in a recent article by Roberta Kwok in Nature on "Historical data hidden in the past." Andrew was formerly a Postdoctoral...
Welcome to the new website!
A new digital platform for the Mountain Legacy Project is born! On July 24, 2017, we launched a website and new logo that carry us forward. Our main aim is to communicate more effectively what the Mountain Legacy Project accomplishes, and to make this news accessible...
Back in the mountains again!
The Mountain Legacy Project is back in the field for 2016. We are working on a variety of priority repeat photographs along the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies. The core field team comprises Rick Arthur, our liaison with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, and Sandra Frey...
Season’s end
Well, we're back in Victoria--a thousand kilometres and a serious road trip away. The team has spent all day, every day of this past week in the MLP lab entering the hard drives upon hard drives of data we've collected (100 stations in all!) into our project...
Special Edition: Vegetation Patterns and Fluvial Geomorphology of the Bow and Elbow Watershed
Nested within this exceptional field season has been the completion of my master’s thesis fieldwork, currently titled 130 years of change: an analysis of vegetation patterns and fluvial geomorphology of the Bow and Elbow watersheds.It was the compelling accounts of...
Mid-August updates: Finishing at Shunda and back to Kannanaskis
It’s hard to believe that it’s mid-August already! We wrapped up in Shunda, spent a few days back at the Elbow camp near Bragg Creek, and are now staying in an old ranger cabin at Kananaskis Boundary.Our last week in Shunda included stations in the White Goat...
Icefield highway and welcome to Shunda Fire Base in Clearwater County
After a beautiful week in Willmore and our last picturesque flight there over glaciers (with Mt. Robson looming in the background) we were ready to move once again. This time we headed to our third location of this summer--Shunda Fire Base in Clearwater area, between...
A week in the Willmore
What a great week! Tomorrow we are leaving the Entrance fire camp, where we arrived one week ago to begin working on repeating our Miller 1928 survey in the amazing Willmore Wilderness Park. The week got off to a fun start with a road trip fro the Elbow Camp to...
Extinguishing the haze around repeat photography
Although we have been busy bees since our arrival in the picturesque Kananaskis Country, forest fires from nearly all directions (BC to the West, Grand Cache and the NWT to the North and Oregon and Montana to the South) produced a thick haze in the air, temporarily...