scholarly journals “Hands Off Our National Parks”: The Alpine Club of Canada Hydro-development Controversies in the Canadian Rockies, 1922-1930

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
PearlAnn Reichwein
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Hydro Development ◽  
Canadian Rockies ◽  
Hetch Hetchy

Abstract Through the 1920s, hydro development proposals for irrigation and power dams impinged on Canada's national parks in the Rockies. The Alpine Club of Canada — a mountaineering organization formed in 1906 — rallied opposition to dams and insisted that national parks were an inviolable public domain. National Parks Commissioner J.B. Harkin and ACC Director A.O. Wheeler created an alliance that highlighted the club's role as a key interest group and recreational stakeholder with a shared vision of the mountain parks. Conflicts over dams in Rocky Mountains and Waterton Lakes national parks were politically and philosophically compared to the great battle of the “Hetch Hetchy” aqueduct in California.

Holocene tephrostratigraphy and glacial fluctuations in Waterton Lakes and Glacier national parks, Alberta and Montana

1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 1093-1101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Osborn
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
National Park ◽  
Glacier National Park ◽  
Glacial Deposits ◽  
Canadian Rockies ◽  
Continental Divide ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
Waterton Lakes National Park

Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta and Glacier National Park in Montana lie along adjacent sections of the continental divide in the Rocky Mountains. In cirques or near divides there is evidence for two ages of glacial deposits. Younger deposits are generally well preserved, poorly vegetated, and bear no tephra and no or very small lichens. Older deposits are more poorly preserved, better vegetated, bear Rhizocarpon sp. lichens at least up to 92 mm in diameter, and bear tephra. The tephra often occurs in two different coloured horizons, but both are compositionally equivalent to Mazama tephra.The older advance has a minimum age of about 6800 14C years BP and a probable maximum age of about 12 000 14C years BP. It is correlated with the pre-Mazama Crowfoot Advance of the Canadian Rockies. Deposits of the younger advance are probably not too much older than mid-19th century, because some glaciers began retreating from the deposits about then. The younger advance is correlated to the Cavell Advance of the Canadian Rockies and the Gannett Peak Advance of the American Rockies.Both advances were minor. The older advance left moraines about 1.5 km or less beyond present glacier margins and depressed ELA's an average of 40 m below modern values.

National Parks of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

2021 ◽  
pp. 69-88
Author(s):  
Roger N. Scoon
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Canadian Rocky Mountains

Low wolverine (Gulo gulo) density in a national park complex of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 287-298
Author(s):  
M. Barrueto ◽  
M.A. Sawaya ◽  
A.P. Clevenger
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Edge Effects ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Home Ranges ◽  
Large Carnivores ◽  
Canadian Rocky Mountains ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
Gulo Gulo

Large carnivores are sensitive to human-caused extirpation due to large home ranges, low population densities, and low reproductive rates. Protected areas help maintain populations by acting as sources, but human-caused mortality, habitat displacement, and edge effects occurring at protected area boundaries may reduce that function. The national parks Banff, Yoho, and Kootenay in the Canadian Rocky Mountains are refugia for large carnivores, including wolverines (Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758)). Despite growing conservation concern, empirical baseline population data for wolverines remain scarce throughout their range, including most of Canada. We hypothesized (i) that in these national parks, wolverine density matched values expected for high-quality habitat, and (ii) that edge effects decreased density towards park boundaries. We conducted systematic non-invasive genetic sampling surveys covering >7000 km2 (2011 and 2013). Using spatial capture–recapture models, we estimated mean (±SE) female (1.5 ± 0.3 and 1.4 ± 0.3 wolverine/1000 km2), male (1.8 ± 0.4 and 1.5 ± 0.3 wolverine/1000 km2), and combined (3.3 ± 0.5 and 3.0 ± 0.4 wolverine/1000 km2) densities for 2011 and 2013, respectively. These estimates were lower than predictions based on density extrapolation from nearby high-quality habitat, and density decreased towards park boundaries. To benefit the population, we recommend creating buffer zones around parks that protect female habitat and prohibit harvest.

A Shared Vision of Healthcare Quality Improvement

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 582-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Birnbaum ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Healthcare Quality ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Healthcare Quality Improvement ◽  
Common Concern ◽  
American Society

AbstractSHEA and the American Society for Quality's Health Care Division have been collaborating in areas of common concern to improve healthcare quality. We each possess a heritage of different but complementary approaches and stand a better chance of success together than apart. This presentation describes rapid growth of our interdisciplinary, international, special interest group and progress made thus far, as well as challenges facing hospital epidemiologists and quality improvement professionals.

Late Holocene solifluction lobe activity in the Mount Rae area, southern Canadian Rocky Mountains

1987 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 1634-1642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Residence Time ◽  
Mean Residence Time ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
The Other ◽  
Canadian Rocky Mountains ◽  
Mass Wasting ◽  
Canadian Rockies

Solifluction lobes are tongue-shaped accumulations of sediment resulting from localized periglacial mass wasting. Radiocarbon records from beneath two turf-banked lobes in the Mount Rae area of the southern Canadian Rockies indicate that solifluction processes have been continuously active for at least the last 2000 years. The long-term rates of frontal movement at both sites average 0.49 cm/year, but vary in magnitude from 0.35 to 1.50 cm/year.Both lobes terminate above soil pedons progressively overridden by their advance. Estimates of the apparent mean residence time of the contemporary soil ranges from 962 ± 100 years in one case to 1600 ± 100 years in the other. This information was used to reconstruct a chronology of lobe activity. Collectively, the radiocarbon records indicate that solifluction lobes in this area were advancing quite rapidly between 1900–1750 years BP but declined to a much slower, but relatively constant, pace up until the present.

scholarly journals A Cytogentic Analysis of Cutthroat Trout in the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 107-111
Author(s):  
Robert Kitchin
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Genetic Basis ◽  
Cutthroat Trout ◽  
Widespread Distribution ◽  
Behavioral Diversity ◽  
Continental Divide ◽  
Salmo Clarki

The cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki, is the trout species native to the Rocky Mountains on both sides of the Continental Divide. The widespread distribution of cutthroat trout in several independent drainages has resulted in the formation of considerable morphological and behavioral diversity both within and between cutthroat trout populations. Behnke has described several different subspecies of Salmo clarki on the basis of their meristic serological characteristics. However, because the genetic basis of these characteristics is unknown, the results of these studies have been inconclusive for the taxonomic designations of cutthroat trout subspecies in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.

Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and the Middle Rocky Mountains: Casper, Wyoming to Salt Lake City, Utah, July 20–30, 1989

10.1029/ft328 ◽  
1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Love ◽  
Gerald E. Nelson ◽  
William G. Pierce ◽  
Roderick A. Hutchinson ◽  
James C. Coogan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Lake City

Rocky mountains - The geological structure of the canadian rockies

1967 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. A200-A202
Author(s):  
H.H. Suter
Keyword(s):  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Canadian Rockies

Assessment of lake sensitivity to acidic deposition in national parks of the Rocky Mountains

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 961-973 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Nanus ◽  
M. W. Williams ◽  
D. H. Campbell ◽  
K. A. Tonnessen ◽  
T. Blett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Acidic Deposition

scholarly journals VII.—The Canadian Rockies. Part I : On a Collection of Middle Cambrian Fossils obtained by Edward Whymper, Esq., F.R.G.S., from Mount Stephen, British Columbia

1902 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 502-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Woodward
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
Canadian Rocky Mountains ◽  
Canadian Rockies ◽  
Middle Cambrian ◽  
Pacific Railroad ◽  
Northern Side

In the Summer of 1901 my friend Mr. Edward Whymper, the well-known traveller, mountain explorer, and writer, paid a visit to the watershed of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and during a stay at Field, the highest pass reached on the Canadian and Pacific Railroad, he examined the slopes of Mount Stephen, and at a height of 6,000 feet on its northern side found numerous Trilobites, and brought home a considerable collection.

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