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Help Stop Clear-Cutting in Castle— "Alberta's Costa Rica"

Sierra Club Canada

Clear-cutting has begun in Castle

Use Your Leverage as a Visitor or Voter to Stop Clear-Cutting in Castle Protected Area - "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. Read more »

Source: Sierra Club Canada

Posted February 14, 2012 by russ

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Approval of Jasper Development Ignores Public Outcry

Alberta Wilderness Association
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Bow Valley Naturalists
9 Feb 2012

Over the objections of almost 200,000 citizens, the federal government has approved the proposed “Brewster Glacier Discovery Walk” in Jasper National Park. Conservation organizations fear that the beauty and integrity of Jasper National Park are being surrendered to commercial interests, opening the door for more for-profit businesses to capitalize on the splendour of Canada’s most loved and protected landscapes. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association
Source: Yellowstome to Yukon Consevation Initiative (pdf)

Posted February 9, 2012 by AEN

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Turning up the Heat on Alberta’s Forest Mis-Management

Alberta Wilderness Association
Feb 3 2012 (All day) - Feb 14 2012 (All day)

Change of Date: Save Our Forests Rallies moved to February 14

The Issue 

Southern Alberta’s forests need your help! Clearcut logging in the Castle is beginning right now, and a similar program is scheduled to begin near Bragg Creek in the summer. Now more than ever Albertans can help keep the momentum going for changes in how our forests are managed.

Below, we outline three opportunities which are coming up in the following week; opportunities for you to lend your support. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted February 7, 2012 by AEN

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Beyond Monitoring— Responsible Management Needed for Oilsands Environmental Impacts

Alberta Wilderness Association
3 Feb 2012

Today, forty five years after the first tar sands mines started, the federal government has finally taken steps to introduce credible monitoring for contaminants and habitat degradation from oilsands development. Alberta Wilderness Association believes that long-overdue monitoring of Alberta’s oilsands impacts is a step in the right direction, but monitoring itself will not fix any of the issues which have so bedeviled the industry for the past few years. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted February 3, 2012 by AEN

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"Water in Focus" Photo Contest & Photo Exhibition

North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper

Come celebrate our waters through the lens of a camera!

Click here for all of the details.

The North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper is launching our first "Water in Focus" Photo Contest and Event Exhibition.  The photo contest and exhibition are focused on four "water-themed" photo categories that capture everyone's relationship with water.  Every amateur photographer in Canada either has a photo or can take a photo that fits one of our categories.

The photo contest entry and payment is all online, secure, and confidential.  We want as many people as possible to be involved with celebrating our waters through photography and the dialogue one photo can create about our water. The photo contest starts today and will be open until March 31/2012. Read more »

Contest details & entry instructions

Posted February 3, 2012 by AEN

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RCA Conference 2012 Announcement & Call for Speakers

Recycling Council of Alberta

The Recycling Council of Alberta is pleased to announce its 2012 Waste Reduction Conference "Wide World of Waste", to be held October 3-5, 2012, at The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge. Read more »

Conference website
Source: Recycling Council of Alberta

Posted February 1, 2012 by AEN

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History being made in Alberta: Picket-line prevents clear-cutting in Castle protected area for 16th day

Picket-line counter posts site where locals & outfitter continue to hold back clear-cutting in Castle protected area
Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition
Sierra Club Canada
26 Jan 2012

Beaver Mines: Located on the way to Castle Mountain Resort in the Castle Special Management Area of southwest Alberta, locals, businesses and outdoor enthusiasts will be counter posting the site today with the Alberta Government's decision and map designating the area as a Special Place protected area. (Document attached or is on government webstite http://alberta.ca/home/NewsFrame.cfm?ReleaseID=/acn/199803/5992.html , except for the original map with the decision.) It's no Read more »

Source: Sierra Club Canada

Posted January 27, 2012 by AEN

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Will Alison Redford's Clearcuts Crush Bear Cubs in their Dens?

WildCanada Conservation Alliance
Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition
Alberta Wilderness Association
25 Jan 2012

Conservationists today called upon Alberta premier Alison Redford to halt plans for winter logging would disturb, displace or even kill bears denning in the Castle Special Management Area.

“Logging in winter threatens Alberta’s bears at the worst possible time,” said WildCanada’s Jim Pissot, “when adults and cubs are asleep in their dens.”   Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted January 25, 2012 by AEN

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History being made in Alberta as for 14th day, picket-line & outfitting camp keep clear-cutting out of protected area

Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition
Sierra Club Canada
25 Jan 2012

BEAVER MINES: A rotating picket-line maintained by outdoor enthusiasts and near-by residents, and an outfitting camp set up by a second generation outfitter are making history in Alberta as for the 14th day now, they continue to hold back Alberta's Sustainable Resource Development Department (SRD) and a sawmill located outside the region from starting clear-cuting in Castle Special Management Area; a popular protected area in southwest Alberta.  Determined by a government hearing panel in 1993 to be an integral part of the health of the international Crown of Read more »

Source: Sierra Club Canada

Posted January 25, 2012 by AEN

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