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CPAWS Northern Alberta AGM & Film/Speaker Event— Mountains in Motion: The Canadian Rockies

CPAWS - Northern Alberta Chapter
Nov 22 2012 - 7:00pm

2011/2012 AGM (7pm start)

Come learn what CPAWS Northern Alberta worked on this past year. Meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.). Contact infonab [at] cpaws [dot] org or 780-424-5129 x309 with questions.

Film/Speaker Event (7:30pm start)

Film - Mountains in Motion: The Canadian Rockies

CPAWS Northern Alberta is excited to present a free showing of this 2012 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festivel selection. Read more »

Source: CPAWS Northern Alberta

Location

Strathcona Library, upstairs meeting room
8331 104 Street
Edmonton, AB
See map: Google Maps

Posted November 21, 2012 by AEN

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Stand up for Canada's National Parks

Jasper Environmental Association
CPAWS Northern Alberta
Sep 7 2012 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm

In spite of recent announcements of new parks being created up north, our already established and more accessible national parks are now seriously underfunded by the federal government. Staff are being laid off, exhibits are being closed, and many trails will no longer be maintained. Read more »

Location

Glacier Discovery Centre parking lot (formerly Icefield Centre) Hwy 93
Jasper National Park, AB
See map: Google Maps
Event page on Facebook

Posted September 4, 2012 by AEN

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Help protect Canada's national parks!

CPAWS - Northern Alberta Chapter
Jasper Environmental Association
Sep 7 2012 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm

We invite you to take part in a public demonstration in support of our National Parks on Friday, September 7 from Noon to 4 pm in the parking lot at the Glacier Discovery Centre (formerly known as the Icefields Centre) on Highway 93 in Jasper National Park. Read more »

Posted August 28, 2012 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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Grizzly Relocation Demonstrates that Recovery is Everyone’s Responsibility

CPAWS Southern Alberta
28 Jun 2012

Canmore, AB – A grizzly sow and her three cubs were relocated from the Bow Valley Wednesday June 27, 2012 after several days of provincial officials attempting to keep the bear family away from the Town of Canmore. Officials from Solicitor General, Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, Tourism Parks and Recreation, had literally spent days using a subtle hazing process to steer the family away from Canmore and back into their normal home range in Kananaskis Country. Read more »

Source: CPAWS Southern Alberta

Posted June 28, 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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Y2Y Speaker Series— Crossing the Flathead: The Wolverine Way

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Bow Valley Naturalists
Feb 23 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Presentation – Stories – Discussion – Door Prizes

Join National Geographic explorer and author of ‘The Wolverine Way' Douglas Chadwick for an evening of compelling storytelling about the fierce, feisty and endangered wolverine. Read more »

Source: Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

Location

Karsten Discovery Centre
Calgary Zoo
Calgary, AB
See map: Google Maps

Posted February 2, 2012 by AEN

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Y2Y Speaker Series— Crossing the Flathead: The Wolverine Way

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Bow Valley Naturalists
Feb 22 2012 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Presentation – Stories – Discussion – Door Prizes

Join National Geographic explorer and author of ‘The Wolverine Way' Douglas Chadwick for an evening of compelling storytelling about the fierce, feisty and endangered wolverine. Read more »

Source: Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

Location

Canmore Collegiate High School
Canmore, AB
See map: Google Maps

Posted February 2, 2012 by AEN

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Take Actions! Jasper is our national park not a theme park!

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Southern Alberta Chapter
Dec 16 2011 (All day)

Jasper is our national park not a theme park!

Canada’s treasured Jasper National Park could be on its way to gaining a theme park-like attraction. Brewster Travel Canada, owned by a US-based company, wants to blast out the side of the cliff beside the Icefields Parkway to build the “Glacier Discovery Walk” – a massive infrastructure “skywalk”, and charge people who wish to admire the view.  Read more »

Follow this link to write a letter now letting the government know your concerns.

Posted December 15, 2011 by russ

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