06/15/2025
Ever wondered how the landscapes around us were formed?
Dale Leckie Presents: Exploring Alberta’s Parks and Reserves – the Scenic Geology of Alberta
Monday June 23rd, 6:00pm
Calgary Irish Cultural Society
Buy tickets here:
https://calgaryexplorersclub.ca/pages/events-1
Alberta is blessed with countless parks and reserves. There are numerous
wilderness reserves, ecological reserves, natural areas, and heritage rangelands, as well as national, provincial, and municipal parks, all exhibiting spectacular scenery with a geological story to tell.
Allow Dale Leckie to help you explore Alberta’s most scenic sites. Dale tells the intriguing story of Alberta’s landscape evolution from Waterton Lakes National Park, to Dinosaur Provincial Park, into the Prairies, and across the North. With trips to Edmonton, Calgary, Crowsnest Pass, and Elk Island National Park, he takes you to explore volcanoes and glaciations long past.
Dale also delves into the relationship between wildlife and landscape which is exemplified in the lives of golden eagles over the Rockies, the American pika and eroding mountains, of burrowing owls on glaciated plains, and greater, short-horned lizards surviving in badlands and a vast rain shadow. Did you ever consider that to find and observe wildlife in Alberta, it is best to first check out thelocal geology?
Using eye-catching illustrations and photographs, Dale blends storytelling with science, incorporating natural landscape beauty with art and history. Exploring the scenic geology of Alberta with Dale gives you what you need to discover and understand the origins of the spectacular landforms of Alberta and some of the wildlife that lives in them. This talk includes stops along well-travelled and not-so-well-travelled routes that the curious would be wise to see.
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