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Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society, Author of Nature By Design and director of the Mountain Legacy Project. .. more

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Eric Stowe Higgs is a Canadian ecologist. He is a professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. Trained in ecology, philosophy, and environmental planning, his work concerns ecological restoration, historical ecology, intervention ecology, and the changing character of life in technological society. He also works with the Mountain Legacy Project as the Principal Instigator. .. more

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 3d
The Tyee is hiring a reporter for a biodiversity beat! #journalism #journalismjobs

More info here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...
Are You The Tyee’s New Biodiversity Reporter? | The Tyee
We’re looking for a sharp journalist to join our team. Apply by Feb. 8.
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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · 11d
It was a treat to interview Laura Govers, a seagrass and intertidal restoration wizard based at the University of Groningen. Dr. Govers visited @uvicenvi.bsky.social last spring.

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · 11d
My guest interview with @lauralgovers.bsky.social just dropped on @futureecologies.bsky.social today. It’s part of the Hyphaedelity series in which FE invites past interviewees to speak with someone whose work inspires.

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · 20d
Jeanine Rhemtulla is a co-founder of the Mountain Legacy Project and we stood together at Powerhouse Cliff for the first time doing repeat photography in 1996.
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Today we have "Power House Cliff" by Jeanine Rhemtulla, the latest excerpt highlight from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada, published in collaboration with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social & the Alpine Club of Canada

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Power House Cliff
Jeanine Rhemtulla's journey led to rephotographing Jasper landscapes, revealing colonial fire suppression, lost Indigenous stewardship, climate change, and ecological transformation.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 25d
Today we have "Power House Cliff" by Jeanine Rhemtulla, the latest excerpt highlight from Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada, published in collaboration with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social & the Alpine Club of Canada

niche-canada.org/2026/01/01/p...
Power House Cliff
Jeanine Rhemtulla's journey led to rephotographing Jasper landscapes, revealing colonial fire suppression, lost Indigenous stewardship, climate change, and ecological transformation.
niche-canada.org

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Dec 13
There was a lot going on all at once yesterday, including some strange network issues in EcoViz Studio, where my team works. I was putting out a lot of fires! By the time we got to the holiday celebration this photo summed it up!

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Mountain Legacy Project @mountainlegacy.bsky.social · Dec 11
A new book featuring the Mountain Legacy Project has just been published!
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Mountain Voices
A new book featuring the Mountain Legacy Project has just been published. By Eric Higgs To celebrate International Mountain Day 2025 we are thrilled to share a new book, Mountain Voices...
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · Nov 25
Join me tonight at @uvic.ca for a conversation of climate, connection, and fighting for change.

🕖 7:00–9:30 p.m. PST (doors 6:30)
📍 University of Victoria

🔗 Event details & tickets: tinyurl.com/RLAG-uvic
🎥 Livestream: tinyurl.com/RLAG-uvic-live
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Nov 24
Do you appreciate that we take care of a large archive of research and writing that goes back nearly 20 years?

If so, help us keep the lights on, donate to our fundraising campaign. Still stuck at 60%! Can you help us move to 65%?

fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

#envhist #cdnhist #envhum
Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
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UVIC Environmental Studies @uvicenvi.bsky.social · Nov 21
Join us for the #UVicENVI Colloquium on Nov 26, 11:30–12:30 in DTB B255.
Dr. Katherine Achacoso shares work on Surigaonon ecological knowledge, anti-colonial resistance, and futures beyond extractive systems.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Nov 19
Today our editor, @gabtm.bsky.social, combed our archive for Mountain Voices and Echoes to help promote the latest collection in our @ucalgarypress.bsky.social Canadian History & Environment open-access book series.

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#envhist #cdnhist #books #mountains
Mountain Voices and Echoes from NiCHE's Archive
Western Canada’s mountains emerge as dynamic landscapes of knowledge, danger, leisure, infrastructure, and change, illuminated through NiCHE’s diverse historical perspectives.
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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Nov 12
Still buzzing from the Mountain Voices launch event in Banff at the Whyte Museum on Friday. Thrilled to share the stage with Senator Karen Sorensen, Bill Snow, Ali Criscitiello, Leanne Allison and a dozen more contributors—mountain royalty! @mountainlegacy.bsky.social
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Alan MacEachern 🇨🇦 @alanmaceachern.bsky.social · Nov 10
Informed, inspiring text. Beautiful, illuminating pix.

Congratulations, @ehiggs.bsky.social, Zac Robinson, @msanseve.bsky.social, Kristen Walsh, & @mountainlegacy.bsky.social!

@ucalgarypress.bsky.social & @nichecanada.bsky.social

press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177...

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Nov 9
It’s out and it’s beautiful. Mountain Voices featuring photographs from @mountainlegacy.bsky.social went on sale Friday evening at our launch event at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff.

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Mountain Legacy Project @mountainlegacy.bsky.social · Nov 8
The MLP recently provided images for the short film Embers, which premiered this past week at the Banff Film and Book Festival!

This short animated video from the production shows the dramatic change in the Athabasca Glacier from 1917 to 2011:

tinyurl.com/EmberVideo

Trailer:
vimeo.com/1131446093
Embers Official Trailer
After losing her home in the 2024 Jasper wildfire, aerial artist Sasha Galitzki is forced to reckon with catastrophic changes to her mountain home. Short documentary…
vimeo.com

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · Nov 6
Today we are highlighting an excerpt from the latest book in our Canadian History & Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Mountain Voices, in collaboration with the Alpine Club of Canada

"Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello

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Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan
Facing frostbite or storm entrapment, Alison Criscitiello chose frostbite, later returning to Mount Logan for ice-core research revealing past climate secrets.
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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Oct 17
Very happy to report the first glimpse at the new identity for our research group—EcoVisualization Studio—which combines @mountainlegacy.bsky.social with CEDAR (Co-Lab for Ecological Design And Restoration). More soon!

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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · Oct 3
Well gang, it's happened: OpenAI has built a platform filled exclusively with fake, AI content.

I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.

Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

And some thoughts 🧵

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Marcus Collier @marcuscollier.bsky.social · Oct 1
We are hiring!
Applications are open for an Assistant. Prof. In Plant #Biodiversity and #Conservation at Trinity College, School of Natural Sciences in the Discipline of Botany! my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Any enquiries, please DM me!
#academicjobs #universityjobs #environmentalscience

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Sep 12
Very happy to announce the book, Mountain Voices, will be published in early November by @ucalgarypress.bsky.social. Fifty authors explore their love of Canadian mountains through interpreting photographs from @mountainlegacy.bsky.social. press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... Order early!
Mountain Voices: The Mountain Legacy Project and a Century of Change in Western Canada
Discover Canada’s mountains as you’ve never seen them before with gorgeous photography from the Mountain Legacy Project accompanied by gripping essays from mountaineers, artists, and mountain research...
press.ucalgary.ca

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Sep 6
Jeanine Rhemtulla and I are presenting “The Mountain Legacy Project as a Platform for Understanding Fire the Canada Wildfire webinar series at 08:30 Friday Sept 12. Free to register. Please join us. www.canadawildfire.org/webinarsandc...

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Canada Wildfire - Webinars and courses
Our webinars feature leading experts discussing a range of topics related to wildfires. Whether you're a researcher, practitioner, or simply interested in learning, our platform provides a space for d...
www.canadawildfire.org

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Sep 5
All great suggestions but I feel your pain on volume of applications. Do you have threshold criteria—achievement and practical—that can filter the applications? This step can be undertaken by someone else without compromising the integrity of the process. This makes your job more tractable.

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Sep 1
Very pleased work with Drs. Jeanine Rhemtulla and Lori Daniels and students on the 2024 Jasper wildfires to be featured in the New York Times today. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
In a Mammoth Wildfire’s Remains, Clues to Tame Future Blazes
www.nytimes.com

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Aug 14
Big thanks to PhD student, Claire Wright, who managed the fieldwork, & Wildfire Canada, and Jasper National Park for great support. Great to work alongside UBC faculty Jeanine Rhemtulla & Lori Daniels. We were delighted to have artist/photographer Desirée Patterson and writer Jesse Winter join us.

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Aug 14
Wrapped up a very successful field season with @mountainlegacy.bsky.social. We repeat high resolution oblique photographs in some case for the fourth time creating a sequence from 1915 to the present including before and after photos of the 2024 Jasper Wildfire Complex.

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Ecology and Evolution @ecol-evol.bsky.social · Jun 10
Peering Into the Past Century of Mountain Diversity Change by Uniting Two Modes of Remote Sensing. New from @juliefortin.bsky.social, @random-blackbear.bsky.social & @ehiggs.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Jul 22
I had the pleasure of working with 16 fine students in the School of Environmental Studies @uvic.ca and in our Restoration of Natural Systems Program. They delivered insights for the community on six research projects that key into priorities of the galianoconservancy.org
Black and white photograph of students in front of the rustic classroom building.

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Jul 3
Heading to the Millard Learning Centre on Galiano Island to teach my annual “advanced principles and practices in ecological restoration” course. Ten days of good work with 16 @uvic.ca students culminating in presentations to the Galiano community! galianoconservancy.ca/event/uvic-s...
UVic Student Presentations | Galiano Conservancy
You are cordially invited to join us at the Millard Learning Centre classroom on Saturday July 12, 2025, 4:00pm-5:30pm, for a public talk by UVic Environmental Studies and Restoration of […]
galianoconservancy.ca

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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Jul 1
After some technical hiccups over the last few months the @mountainlegacy.bsky.social Stories series is back! Please check out the latest post by Alia Johnson on connecting work with repeat photography to ecological design. mountainlegacy.ca/2025/06/30/o...

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On Historical Photographs, Regenerative Ecological Design, and the Value of Collaboration
By Alia Johnson Beyond being a powerful tool for understanding large-scale landscape change over time, historical photographs provide profound insights as a decision-making tool for the designe...
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Eric Higgs @ehiggs.bsky.social · Jun 10
Julie Fortin delivers on innovative use of repeat photography for tracking songbird diversity in a mountain landscape. Research done while a MSc student in the School of Environmental Studies @uvic.ca
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Peering Into the Past Century of Mountain Diversity Change by Uniting Two Modes of Remote Sensing. New from @juliefortin.bsky.social, @random-blackbear.bsky.social & @ehiggs.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology