Investigating landscape change and ecological restoration: an integrated approach using historical ecology and GIS in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

• Main Author: Levesque, Lisa Marie
• Other Authors: Higgs, Eric, Keller, Peter
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: archi; geo; Canada; Parkland; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/37

This thesis examines landscape change from 1889 to the present within the foothills-parkland ecoregion of Waterton Lakes National Park (WLNP) in southwestern Alberta, Canada. Land cover dynamics are explored qualitatively and quantitatively using Geographical Information Systems and a combination of...