Andy Russell – I’tai sah kòp (Castle)
Stop Logging in Castle Special Place
Use your voice and tell the Alberta Government to stop loggin in Castle Special Place
Use Your Leverage as a Visitor or Voter to Stop Clear-Cutting in Alberta's Costa Rica!
It's URGENT you act because Spray Lake Sawmill's bulldozers are now building logging roads in former national park lands to clear-cut what today is the heart of the Castle Special Management Area -- a Government of Alberta designated Special Place protected area in the Rocky Mountains of southwest Alberta. As Alberta's Legislature and new Premier go back to work, you can use your leverage as a potential visitor to Alberta or voter in Alberta to save this vital part of the international Crown of the Continent ecosystem and National Geographic geotourism area.
Help local residents and businesses who, despite the bitter cold, occupied the Castle for three weeks and maintained a picket-line that held back clear-cut logging from starting.... Read more »
Park project in hands of working group
At a recent public meeting in Coalfields School, just outside of Beaver Mines, MD Councillor Rod Zielinski said council was divided over how it should be involved in the process.
Producers chew on grazing issue
Diane Pachal from the Sierra Club had asked representatives from both the Alberta Sustainable Resource Development office and Alberta Tourism, Parks, Recreation and Culture to attend to answer specific grazing questions from grazing permit holders. MD Council members, Rod Zielinski, Reeve Rodney Cyr and John Russell were also in attendance.
Conservation Groups Call for Release of Habitat Report, Parks and Funding to Save Grizzlies
The Castle Crown Wilderness: A missing link
Although the entire Castle Wilderness is public land and two major public hearings by provincial agencies have each previously recommended its legal protection, a park has not come about. This is largely due to the sub-surface petroleum leases held by Shell Canada. Shell has the opportunity to be a catalyst for establishment of the entire Castle as a Wildland Provincial Park. Conservation groups from Alberta, other parts of Canada and the US are urging Shell to drop its interest in drilling and prove its environmental concerns by helping protect the Castle Wilderness.
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