Landscapes of the New "Ecological" West: Writing and Seeing Beyond the Wilderness Plot

Landscapes of the New Ecological West:Writing and Seeing Beyond the Wilderness Plot

Landscapes of the New Ecological West:Writing and Seeing Beyond the Wilderness Plot

Dianne ChisholmPaget/Hoy Lecture, University of Calgary

November 18, 2010

Dianne ChisholmPaget/Hoy Lecture, University of Calgary

November 18, 2010

Albert Bierstadt, "Sunset in the Yosemite Valley" (1868)

Carleton Watkins"Three Brothers," Yosemite (1861)

Carleton Watkins"The Yosemite Valley" (1865)

Eadweard MuybridgeYosemite

"View from theMerced River,"Yosemite Valley (1868)

"Tocoya, or North Dome," Yosemite (1868)

Ansel Adams

"Moon and Half Dome" (1960)"Thunderstorm, Yosemite Valley"

(1945)

Byron Harmon, "Bow Lake," Banff (1924)

Don Harmon, Mt. Assiniboine (1976)

Tom Willock

"Upper Waterton Valley, Study #2" (2001)

Robert Adams "NewlyCompletedTractHouse,ColoradoSprings" (1968)

Robert Adams, "Motel" (1969)

Robert Adams, "Drive-In, Colorado Springs" (1968)

New West Hotel, Edmonton (2010)

Robert Adams, "Motel" (1969)

Richard Misrach

"Crater and Destroyed Convoy, Bravo 20 Bombing Range" (1986)

Richard Misrach "Dead Animals #1" (1987)

Edward Burtynsky"Alberta Oil Sands #6Fort McMurray"(2007)

Rebecca Solnit's Literary Landscape

Cynthia Rettig, "The Family Outing Series #5" (1996)

Rising Buffalo Jackson "Entering Ely Indian Reservation Nevada" (1995)

Robert Dawson

"Flood, Sacramento River, Near Redding, California" (1985)

Richard Misrach

"American Flag Liner, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah" (1992)

Richard Misrach

"Schrapnel, Wendover Air Base,Utah" (1989)

Albert Bierdstadt "Mariposa Indian Encampment, Yosemite Valley" (1872)

Eadweard Muybridge, Yosemite Valley Natives (1872)

Ansel Adams"Moon and Half Dome" (1960)

"Thunderstorm, Yosemite Valley" (1945)

Kent Monkman, "The Triumph of Mischief" (2006)

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe

"The trunk of the Jeffrey Pine, killed by drought, Sentinel Dome" (2002)

Ansel Adams

"Jeffrey Pine, Sentinel Dome, Yosemite"

(1940)

Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe"View from the handrail gate at Glacier Point Connecting overlook, connecting views from Ansel Adams to Carleton

Watkins"(2003)

Martin Stupich, "Sandstone lag litter shaly badlands, dawn, the Haystacks, Sweetwater Country, Wyoming" (2006)

Martin Stupich "Railroad tracks overgrown with rabbitbrush and sage, Carbon County, Wyoming"

Martin Stupich, "Skyline of Wamsutter, epicenter of twenty-first century gas boom, Carbon County, Wyoming" (2005)

Martin Stupich, "Gas pipeline rights-of-way intersecting near Bitter Creek, Sweetwater County, Wyoming" (2002)

Ansel Adams "Manzanar Relocation Centre, from Guard Tower looking west" (1943)

Ansel Adams, "Farm Workers at Manzanar War Relocation Centre with Mount Williamson in the background" (1943)

J. Remtulla and E. Higgs,Jasper (1998)

M.P. Bridgeland, "View from Power House Cliffe, northeast of

Jasper Townsite" (1915)

Robert Sanford"The Magnificent Seven" map of World Heritage Site

R.W. SandfordConsolation Lake

R.W SandfordLake O'Hara

R.W. Standford, Ktunaxa Dancers

Yamnuska sublime

Yamnuska Landscape

Yamnuska Landscape

Hopi pictographs, Grotto Canyon

Brewster Kananaskis Ranch and Yamnuska Mountain

Canmore Landfill and Yamnuska Mountain

Seebe Dam and Yamnuska Mountain

LaFarge Quarry and Yamnuska Mountain

Yamnuska Mixed Ecologies

Yam Landscape

Stoney burial ground with "Yamnuska" grave stones

Eyrâhi Nakoda Campground Recreational Park

"Yam" Landscape

Landsong Heritage Consulting Ltd offices,and founder, Beth Hyrchuk

Dog River Reserve: Hunting

Blueberry River Reserve: Hunting

Halfway River Reserve: Hunting

Hugh Brody, Maps and Dreams

"Overlapping habitats and territories near West Moberly Reservation"

Landsong consultations with Elders

Sustainable landscape?