Dale Leckie Presents: Exploring Alberta’s Parks and Reserves – the Scenic Geology of Alberta

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 the

local 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.