A project by Matt Dance

Landscape
amnesia

Landscape amnesia is what happens when each generation takes the land it grew up with as normal and forgets what came before. This project puts the same ground side by side across time, so you can see what we've forgotten.

The same patch of Little Smoky forest in 1950 and 2010, with seismic lines, roads and pipelines drawn over the 2010 photo

First map · west-central Alberta

Little Smoky Line Atlas

Every mapped seismic line, road, pipeline and cut-block in one Alberta caribou range, with air photos from 1949 and 1950.

14,614 km of line in a 3,084 km² range

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More places are on the way.