Author: Wardens (Musical group) Publisher: ISBN: 9781999108700 Category : Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.) Languages : en Pages : 24
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Saddle up, little partner. You're on patrol with the Rocky Mountain Rangers! It's our job to protect Canada's precious mountain parks. We wrangle grizzly bears, rescue stranded hikers, and ride up and down the trails with our horses - it's all in a day's work for a ranger.
Author: Robert J. Burns Publisher: University of Calgary Press ISBN: 1552380181 Category : Electronic books Languages : en Pages : 401
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A Canadian historian and a 39-year veteran of the Warden Service collaborate on this history of the Warden Service from its formative years to the present. Covers evolving National Park philosophies and how the expanding park system, changing societal expectations, and technological change brought change to the role of the park warden. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Author: Katherine M. Calvert Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd ISBN: 9781894765800 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 332
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Mountain rescue in western Canada developed through the Canadian Pacific Railway's use of Swiss guides to enhance the climbing experience in the early 1900s. These guides brought their knowledge of mountain rescue to the Canadian Rockies. As climbing gained in popularity with the emerging middle classes after the Second World War, tragic accidents became more common. Two accidents in 195455 (the deaths of a group of female climbers from Mexico on Mt. Victoria and a group of Philadelphia schoolboys on Mt. Temple) forced the government to develop a professional mountain rescue team through the Park Warden Service under the tutelage of Walter Perren (a Swiss guide and the father of mountain rescue in Canada). Perren essentially turned cowboys into competent rescue personnel, and the story takes off from there.Following five principal men through the first 50 years of mountain rescue in Canada, Guardians of the Peaks also looks at all aspects of the rescue experience. It is the story of personal tragedy and the ability of individuals to cope with this stress-laced, demanding occupation.
Author: Melody Hessing Publisher: UBC Press ISBN: 9780774811071 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 418
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"This Elusive Land provides an introduction to the literature about women and the environment in Canada. It looks at the ways in which women integrate the social and biophysical settings of their lives, and features a range of contexts in which gender mediates, inspires, and informs a sense of belonging to and in this land. Drawing from geographical, historical, and cultural perspectives, the volume reveals the significance of women's experiences in various landscapes."--Jacket.
Author: Thomas S. Hischak Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442245506 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 837
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For more than a century, original music has been composed for the cinema. From the early days when live music accompanied silent films to the present in which a composer can draw upon a full orchestra or a lone synthesizer to embody a composition, music has been an integral element of most films. By the late 1930s, movie studios had established music departments, and some of the greatest names in film music emerged during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including Alfred Newman, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Bernard Herrmann. Over the decades, other creators of screen music offered additional memorable scores, and some composers—such as Henry Mancini, Randy Newman, and John Williams—have become household names. The Encyclopedia of Film Composers features entries on more than 250 movie composers from around the world. It not only provides facts about these artists but also explains what makes each composer notable and discusses his or her music in detail. Each entry includes Biographical material Important dates Career highlights Analysis of the composer’s musical style Complete list of movie credits This book brings recognition to the many men and women who have written music for movies over the past one hundred years. In addition to composers from the United States and Great Britain, artists from dozens of other countries are also represented. A rich resource of movie music history, The Encyclopedia of Film Composers will be of interest to fans of cinema in general as well as those who want to learn more about the many talented individuals who have created memorable scores.
Author: Thomas G. Andrews Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674495357 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 344
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What can we learn from a high-country valley tucked into an isolated corner of Rocky Mountain National Park? In this pathbreaking book, Thomas Andrews offers a meditation on the environmental and historical pressures that have shaped and reshaped one small stretch of North America, from the last ice age to the advent of the Anthropocene and the latest controversies over climate change. Large-scale historical approaches continue to make monumental contributions to our understanding of the past, Andrews writes. But they are incapable of revealing everything we need to know about the interconnected workings of nature and human history. Alongside native peoples, miners, homesteaders, tourists, and conservationists, Andrews considers elk, willows, gold, mountain pine beetles, and the Colorado River as vital historical subjects. Integrating evidence from several historical fields with insights from ecology, archaeology, geology, and wildlife biology, this work simultaneously invites scientists to take history seriously and prevails upon historians to give other ways of knowing the past the attention they deserve. From the emergence and dispossession of the Nuche—“the People”—who for centuries adapted to a stubborn environment, to settlers intent on exploiting the land, to forest-destroying insect invasions and a warming climate that is pushing entire ecosystems to the brink of extinction, Coyote Valley underscores the value of deep drilling into local history for core relationships—to the land, climate, and other species—that complement broader truths. This book brings to the surface the critical lessons that only small and seemingly unimportant places on Earth can teach.
Author: Pearl White-Wolf Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers ISBN: 1398475408 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 94
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An enticing book for children of all ages. Can animals communicate? Can their voice be heard to make their plight known? Are there still magical and mystical beings hidden from us? Meet the charming animal characters representing endangered species, read their interesting, exciting, and informative adventures and stories. What exactly is Javerwop? The wonder of the wild, the magical and mystical all await you within the pages of this book! Unfortunately, with the wonder, magical and mystical come the dark foes! Which side will you take? Will you answer the plea to help? Mankind seems determined to destroy our beautiful world. They use and abuse nature’s abundance with no thought for the future. Lady Eleanor and many of her animal friends have witnessed and experienced first-hand the devastation and destruction that can result. Will people listen to their pleas? A Fusion of Fact and Fiction
Author: David Nicol Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc. ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 63
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Trail's End is a story based on two months the author spent alone in the Northwest Rocky Mountains. The area of Montana where the story takes place is referred to as "nowhere" by the residents of Montana and Idaho. The region is teeming with wildlife, which formed the basis for this tale. The story is fictional even though some of the events actually happened including certain occurrences that caused the author to believe Bigfoot exists.
Author: Wardens (Musical group)
Author: Robert J. Burns
Author: Katherine M. Calvert
Author: Ayesha Clough
Author: Melody Hessing
Author: W. F. Lothian
Author: Thomas S. Hischak
Author: Thomas G. Andrews
Author: Pearl White-Wolf
Author: David Nicol