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Page 1: 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

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

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Carleton Watkins"Three Brothers," Yosemite (1861)

Carleton Watkins"The Yosemite Valley" (1865)

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Eadweard MuybridgeYosemite

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

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

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Ansel Adams

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

(1945)

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

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Don Harmon, Mt. Assiniboine (1976)

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Tom Willock

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

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Robert Adams "NewlyCompletedTractHouse,ColoradoSprings" (1968)

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Robert Adams, "Motel" (1969)

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

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New West Hotel, Edmonton (2010)

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Robert Adams, "Motel" (1969)

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Richard Misrach

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

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Richard Misrach "Dead Animals #1" (1987)

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

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Rebecca Solnit's Literary Landscape

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

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

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Robert Dawson

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

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Richard Misrach

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

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Richard Misrach

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

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

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Eadweard Muybridge, Yosemite Valley Natives (1872)

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Ansel Adams"Moon and Half Dome" (1960)

"Thunderstorm, Yosemite Valley" (1945)

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

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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)

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

Watkins"(2003)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jasper Townsite" (1915)

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

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R.W. SandfordConsolation Lake

R.W SandfordLake O'Hara

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R.W. Standford, Ktunaxa Dancers

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Yamnuska sublime

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Yamnuska Landscape

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Yamnuska Landscape

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Hopi pictographs, Grotto Canyon

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Brewster Kananaskis Ranch and Yamnuska Mountain

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Canmore Landfill and Yamnuska Mountain

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Seebe Dam and Yamnuska Mountain

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LaFarge Quarry and Yamnuska Mountain

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Yamnuska Mixed Ecologies

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Yam Landscape

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Stoney burial ground with "Yamnuska" grave stones

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Eyrâhi Nakoda Campground Recreational Park

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"Yam" Landscape

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Landsong Heritage Consulting Ltd offices,and founder, Beth Hyrchuk

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Dog River Reserve: Hunting

Blueberry River Reserve: Hunting

Halfway River Reserve: Hunting

Hugh Brody, Maps and Dreams

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"Overlapping habitats and territories near West Moberly Reservation"

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Landsong consultations with Elders

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Sustainable landscape?