Alberta Wilderness Association

May
15
2015
Media Release

Environmental Enforcement Positions Good News for Headwaters

Alberta Wilderness Association

Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) is greatly encouraged by today's announcement by the Alberta government that 23 new environmental enforcement positions are being established to patrol Alberta's Eastern Slopes and other backcountry areas. The hirings follow several years of sparse presence on the ground by officers and widespread damage to streams and river beds in Alberta's headwaters. Read more about Environmental Enforcement Positions Good News for Headwaters

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association
Alberta Wilderness Association
Fresh Water
Biodiversity and Wildlife
Water & Watershed Management
Wilderness & Parks
May
12
2015
Story

Wild Lands Advocate Vol. 23, No. 1

Alberta Wilderness Association

2015-02-00 Vol. 23 No. 1 Wild Lands Advocate

The latest issue of the Wildlands Advocate is now available from the Alberta Wilderness Association website.

Features

  • Giving up the Ghost?
  • Managing Recreation on Public Land: How does Alberta Compare?
  • Hummingbird to Hope: Trail Monitoring, Management and a Wildland Park in the Bighorn
  • An Impossible Dream?: Biodiversity in Alberta’s Largest Urban Centres
  • A Conservation Easement Goes to Court
  • Flying a Chequered Flag at OHV Races in the Livingstone-Porcupine
Read more about Wild Lands Advocate Vol. 23, No. 1>
Source: Alberta Wilderness Association
Biodiversity and Wildlife
Alberta Wilderness Association
Reports & Publications
May
01
2015
Media Release

Oil and Gas Development Transforming North American Landscapes

Alberta Wilderness Association

Accelerated drilling activity is transforming significant portions of North America's natural landscapes. University of Montana scientists recently released the first broad-scale evaluation of oil and gas industry impacts on landscapes across the U.S. and Canada, including Alberta.

Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) is renewing its call for development limits in sensitive forest and grassland ecosystems and for expanded protected areas networks. Read more about Oil and Gas Development Transforming North American Landscapes

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association
Alberta Wilderness Association
Fresh Water
Biodiversity and Wildlife
Wildlife Protection
Wilderness & Parks
Conventional Oil & Gas
Oil Sands
Fracking
Event

Sustainability Pub Night with Live Music by Kris Demeanor

Alberta Wilderness Association
CPAWS Southern Alberta
Apr 28 2015 - 1:00am

Join CPAWS Southern Alberta Chapter (CPAWS SAB) and the Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) for our Sustainability Pub Night at the Ironwood Stage & Grill on Monday, April 27 at 7 pm.

Live music by Kris Demeanor.

Suggested donation: $5 Read more about Sustainability Pub Night with Live Music by Kris Demeanor

Source: CPAWS Southern Alberta

Location

Ironwood Stage & Grill
1229 9 Avenue SE
Calgary , AB
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Alberta Wilderness Association
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Biodiversity and Wildlife
Wildlife Protection
Wilderness & Parks
Event

Water for Tomorrow — An All-Party Candidates Forum on Water Issues

Alberta Wilderness Association
May 1 2015 - 1:00am to 3:00am

Many Albertans have engaged  recently in a number of important water issues. Ensuring our source water security, as well as drought and flood risk management, has become vitally important to each one of us. AWA believes there is both a need and high interest to discuss Alberta water resources policy and decision making. Join us for this panel discussion and hear candidates from major provincial political parties share their views about 'water for tomorrow'.

Candidates confirmed to represent their parties are the following: Read more about Water for Tomorrow — An All-Party Candidates Forum on Water Issues

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Location

Alberta Wilderness Association
455 12 Street NW
Calgary , AB
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Alberta Wilderness Association
Fresh Water
Apr
09
2015
Media Release

Grizzly Death Toll Climbs

Alberta Wilderness Association

In what has become a sad annual tradition, Alberta’s ministry of Environment and Sustainable Resource Development has released their count of the number of grizzly bears known to have met their end in 2014. All of this year’s 19 deaths were caused by humans, underscoring the grave need for habitat protection for this threatened species. Read more about Grizzly Death Toll Climbs

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association
Alberta Wilderness Association
Biodiversity and Wildlife
Wildlife Protection
Mar
24
2015
Media Release

Alberta Could Choose Habitat Recovery Plan, Instead More Lease Sales in Endangered Mountain Caribou Ranges are Planned

Alberta Wilderness Association

The Alberta government has posted new energy leases for sale in the same endangered mountain caribou range in west central Alberta where it cancelled lease sales on March 6. Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) asks the Alberta government for consistent decisions to recover Redrock-Prairie Creek and Narraway mountain caribou, and to adopt the principles of the Alberta Conservation Association (ACA) 2012 proposal for Redrock-Prairie Creek caribou range management. Read more about Alberta Could Choose Habitat Recovery Plan, Instead More Lease Sales in Endangered Mountain Caribou Ranges are Planned

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association
Alberta Wilderness Association
Biodiversity and Wildlife
Wildlife Protection
Energy
Wilderness & Parks
Conventional Oil & Gas

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