Author: James Bernard HarkinPublisher: Saskatoon : H.R. Larson Pub.
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The History and Meaning of the National Parks of Canada : Extracts from the Papers of the Late Jas. B. Harkin, First Commissioner of the National Parks of Canada
Author: James Bernard HarkinPublisher: Saskatoon : H.R. Larson Pub.
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Origin and Meaning of the National Parks of Canada
Author: Canada. National Parks BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
J.B. Harkin
Author: E. J. (Ted) HartPublisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 0888647611
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Many of Canada’s superb national parks owe their existence to James Bernard Harkin (1875–1955), the first commissioner of Canada’s new Dominion Parks Branch in 1911. Ted Hart follows Harkin’s career from his apprenticeship in the Department of the Interior to his retirement in 1936, and presents Harkin as a major force in early Canadian parks and wildlife conservation. He supported Canadian wildlife conservation at its inception, created the world’s first park service, and developed major park policies. Conservationists, serious history enthusiasts, and those with an interest in Canada’s national parks will enjoy this biography of a multifaceted and significant individual.
Natural Selections
Author: Alan Andrew MacEachernPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773521575
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
During the Depression the Canadian National Parks Branch was under pressure to make the park system truly national, to bring the advantages of parks to all provinces. In Atlantic Canada, however, it found itself dealing with an environment that was far different from what it was accustomed to in Western Canada. The land areas were smaller, flatter, and, having been settled for generations, could hardly be considered wild. Wildlife was smaller and less numerous.
The Real Thing
Author: Briony PennPublisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN: 1771600713
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
The Real Thing is the first official biography of Ian McTaggart Cowan (1910–2010), the “father of Canadian ecology.” Authorized by his family and with the research support and participation of the University of Victoria Libraries, Briony Penn provides an unprecedented and accessible window into the story of this remarkable naturalist. From his formative years roaming the mountains around Vancouver looking for venison to his last years finishing the voluminous and authoritative Birds of British Columbia, Cowan’s life provides a unique perspective on a century of environmental change—with a critical message for the future. As the head and founder of the first university-based wildlife department in Canada, Ian McTaggart Cowan revolutionized the way North Americans understood the natural world, and students flocked into his classrooms to hear his brilliant, entertaining lectures regarding the new science of ecology. His television programs in the 1950s and ’60s, Fur and Feathers, The Web of Life and The Living Sea, made him a household name around the world. He was also responsible for hiring a young David Suzuki, who followed in his nature-show-host footsteps. Illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white photos from all aspects of Cowan’s life, The Real Thing takes the reader on an adventurous and inspirational journey through the heart of North American ecology, wilderness, landscape and wonder.
Mapper of Mountains
Author: I.S. MacLarenPublisher: University of Alberta
ISBN: 0888647646
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Mapper of Mountains follows the career of Dominion Land Surveyor Morrison Parsons Bridgland, who provided the first detailed maps of many regions of the Canadian Rockies. Between 1902 and 1930, this unheralded alpinist perfected phototopographical techniques to compile a series of mountaintop photographs during summers of field work, and spent his winters collating them to provide the Canadian government, tourists, and mountain climbers with accurate topographical maps. Bridgland was a great climber and co-founder of the Alpine Club of Canada. Mapper of Mountains also tells the story of the Rocky Mountain Repeat Photography Project, which studies the changes sustained in the Rockies, repeating the field work accomplished by Bridgland almost a century ago.
Theorizing Outdoor Recreation and Ecology
Author: Sean RyanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137385081
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Deciding what user impacts are natural or unnatural has inspired much debate. Biophysically, moose cause similar kinds of soil and vegetation impacts as hikers. Yet moose are the sign of nature while hikers are the sign of damage. The field of outdoor recreation is beset with paradoxes, and this book presents a unique, alternative framework to address these dilemmas. Examining outdoor recreation through the lens of ecological theory, Ryan draws from theorists such as Foucault, Derrida and Latour. The book explores minimum impact strategies designed to protect and enhance ecological integrity, but that also require a disturbing amount of policing of users, which runs counter to the freedom users seek. Recent ecological theory suggests that outdoor recreation's view of nature as balanced when impacts are removed is outdated and incorrect. What is needed, and indeed Ryan presents, is a paradoxical and ecological view of humans as neither natural nor unnatural, a view that embraces some traces in nature.
The Canadian National Parks: Today and Tomorrow: Introduction. Other alternatives
Author: James Gordon NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Canadian National Parks: Today and Tomorrow
Author: National and Provincial Parks Association of CanadaPublisher: Calgary : University of Calgary
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Wolf Mountains
Author: Karen R. JonesPublisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 1552380726
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"This book documents the changing tenets of landscape preservation and species protection in preserves of the United States and Canada through a capacious study of canine history."--BOOK JACKET.