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Saving the history carved into landscape of Canada's Waterton Lakes National park

by JEREMY WEBER
For the Eagle | October 5, 2022 12:00 AM

Archaeologists and preservationists are working together to record information on a group of culturally modified trees (CMT) in Canada’s Waterton Lakes National Park.

Using cutting edge laser scanning technology, archaeologists with the University of Calgary have created an extremely detailed model of the human-carved trees surrounding the original site of a cabin once inhabited by Waterton Lakes’ first park ranger, John George “Kootenai” Brown...

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