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Stop Castle Logging Rally

Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition
Jan 20 2013 - 11:00am - 2:00pm

Please join us at a Stop Castle Logging Rally on Sunday, January 20 in Beaver Mines.

As many of you will know, Spray Lake Sawmills (SLS) is currently clear-cut logging in the Castle. The provincial government gave SLS permission to complete the first year of logging that was delayed by last winter's protests. Read more »

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Beaver Mines Gazebo Beaver Mines, AB
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Posted January 18, 2013 by AEN

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Just $20 per Truckload of Non-merchantable Timber for Castle Clearcut Trees

Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition
CPAWS Southern Alberta
Alberta Wilderness Association
21 Aug 2012

Pincher Creek, AB - Twenty dollars. That’s how much grizzly bear habitat and trout spawning streams are worth to the Alberta Government. Twenty dollars is the amount of money that the Alberta government receives in royalties for each truckload of non-merchantable timber removed from the Castle. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted August 21, 2012 by AEN

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Castle Logging Decision Ignored Fish & Wildlife, and Alberta Public

Details Revealed in Newly-released Freedom of Information Documents

Alberta Wilderness Association
Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society ‐ Southern Alberta
14 Aug 2012

ALBERTA - Newly-released documents reveal that the Alberta government’s decision to go ahead with deeply unpopular clearcut logging in the Castle Special Place, west of Pincher Creek, Alberta – despite widespread public opposition – was made by Forestry staff in a seeming vacuum. Fish and Wildlife staff were given minimal opportunity for input, and documents show that input was ignored. Extensive public opposition to the logging, which saw rallies, a protest camp and even arrests, was also discounted. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association
Source: CPAWS Southern Alberta

Posted August 14, 2012 by AEN

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Group Sues Government over Castle Logging

Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition
18 Apr 2012

Arguing that there was a reasonable expectation that the Castle Special Place would be protected, and that no proper consultation was carried out when the Alberta government decided to allow logging in that sensitive watershed, the Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition and a group of local citizens announced today that they are initiating a judicial review of the government’s decision to allow clear cut logging. “In 1993, the Natural Resources Conservation Board recommended that the Castle be protected,” said Gord Petersen, speaking on behalf of the applicants. Read more »

Source: Stop Castle Logging

Posted April 18, 2012 by AEN

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Over a hundred attend Valentine’s Day Rallies in Support of Forests

Bragg Creek Environmental Coalition
Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition
Alberta Wilderness Association
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society— Southern Alberta Chapter
14 Feb 2012

Calgary, Edmonton, AB: More than 170 people attended rallies today in Calgary and Edmonton to send a strong message to the Government of Alberta: Albertans love their forests and don’t want the heart of protected areas like the Castle Special Place or poplar trail systems in Bragg Creek to be logged. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted February 14, 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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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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Alberta Government kicks public out of protected area so Spray Lake Sawmills can begin clear-cutting

Sierra Club Canada
19 Jan 2012

BEAVER MINES: This afternoon, Alberta Government’s Sustainable Resource Development Department (SRD) issued a notice closing part of the popular, year-round recreation core of the Castle Special Management Area to public use. That includes closing it to a legal camp of a second-generation outfitter and a picket-line by local residents - the presence of which was holding back Spray Lake Sawmills from starting up its equipment to bulldoze new roads and clear-cut the protected area. Read more »

Source: Sierra Club Canada

Posted January 19, 2012 by AEN

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Resident’s picket-line and outfitters camp continue to hold off clear-cutting a popular protected area in southwest Alberta

Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition
Sierra Club Canada
16 Jan 2012

Beaver Mines: Situated on the way to Castle Mountain Resort, inside the Castle Special Management Area west of Pincher Creek, it’s now the sixth day and counting that a legal camp set up by a second-generation outfitter and a picket line by local residents, outdoor enthusiasts and conservation groups are holding off logging equipment from starting in the protected area.   It was an upbeat and determined atmosphere through the weekend at the site as long-time ranching families stop by with hot chocolate and more new volunteers stopped in to help.  Most driving to Cast Read more »

Source: Stop Castle Logging (Facebook)

Posted January 17, 2012 by AEN

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Southwest Alberta groups release new recommendations for sustainable forest management

Alberta Wilderness Association
25 Oct 2011

Today sees the release of a new report, Sustainable Forests, Sustainable Communities: The Future of Alberta’s Southwestern Forests. Citizens and associations from communities throughout southwestern Alberta have joined together to document serious concerns with current industrial-scale logging practices, and present an alternative vision for the management of Alberta's southwestern forests. Read more »

Posted October 25, 2011 by AEN

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