A Park as Tribute to Andy Russell

 

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 »

Edmonton: Albertans’ number one priority for investment related to parks and recreation makes no appearance in last week’s provincial budget. That is why conservation groups are looking to the government’s soon-to-be released new parks policy – Alberta’s Plan for Parks – to address this major shortcoming. This top priority is conspicuously absent from the provincial budget.

Calgary - The Speech from the Throne acknowledged that Albertans are worried about the province’s natural environment, so it’s highly likely that the Sierra Club of Canada is not alone in saying it’s about time that the need for new protected areas and parks has been raised by the parties in the election; the most recent announcement being today’s by the Progressive Conservatives.

Calgary: Local and national conservation organizations are calling on Alberta’s Sustainable Development Minister, Ted Morton, to release the scientists’ report outlining core grizzly habitat areas to his Grizzly Bear Recovery Team and the public.

(Calgary) The Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy has just released its report on “Lessons for Canada and Alberta” from last September’s forum in Banff, Alberta.  The report points to the importance of undertaking headwater (upland watershed) protection in the face of significantly reduced water flows in the Saskatchewan River system of Canada’s Prairie provinces and the context of population growth and climate change which are “poised to create a crisis in water scarce” southern Alberta.