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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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Too Many Roads Mean Too Many Grizzly Deaths. Help Now!

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Southern Alberta Chapter
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Alberta Wilderness Association
Sierra Club Canada
Fact: Alberta's grizzly bears are listed as a Threatened species; there are fewer than 700 left.
Fact: Most grizzly deaths occur because there are too many people in their habitat - too many roads and trails criss-cross lands that grizzly bears need to survive.
Fact: The Alberta government is not adhering to its own road density thresholds. In fact, the density of roads and other linear features in grizzly habitat is up to 4 times greater than thresholds set in Alberta's 
Fact: We need your voice to help protect Alberta grizzly habitat.

Be the voice of the grizzly - It only takes 1 minute.

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Source: Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Source: Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society — Southern Alberta Chapter
Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted December 5, 2011 by AEN

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Federal government must prevent extinction of sage-grouse in Canada

Ecojustice
23 Nov 2011

VANCOUVER — An international coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal environment minister to take Canada’s endangered Greater sage-grouse under his wing with an emergency protection order. Read more »

Source: Ecojustice

Posted November 24, 2011 by AEN

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Thousands of Canadians demand for Canada to go beyond coal

Climate Action Network Canada
27 Oct 2011

OTTAWA - Over 5,000 letters demanding stricter greenhouse gas regulations for coal power in Canada were submitted during the public consultation period on federal coal regulations. Climate Action Network Canada believes that if incorporated into the proposed regulations, measures proposed in member submissions could insure that these regulations have a meaningful impact on Canada’s path towards a safer, more sustainable future. Read more »

Source: Sierra Club Prairie

Posted October 27, 2011 by AEN

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Stop Castle Special Place Logging and Drilling

Sierra Club Canada

Head-off clear-cutting Castle Special Place — Alberta's Costa Rica!
Write Alberta’s new premier today!

Unless we act now, as early as next week, bulldozers will be building logging roads in former national park lands to clear-cut what today is the Castle Special Place protected area. Read more »

Source: Sierra Club Canada

Posted October 26, 2011 by AEN

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Replace spin with conservation action in international Crown of Continent say conservation groups

Sierra Club Canada
Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition
22 Sep 2011

Pincher Creek & Calgary: Sierra Club Canada and the Castle-Crown Wilderness Coalition are maintaining that while it is important to have the Alberta Sustainable Resource Development’s Parliamentary Assistant, Evan Berger, representing the government today at the international Crown of the Continent Round Table in Polson, Montana, the province needs to replace its spin with actual conservation action, instead of the actions thwarting conservation in Alberta’s portion of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem.  Read more »

Source: Sierra Club Canada

Posted September 22, 2011 by AEN

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Moratorium on motorized access necessary for grizzly survival

Yellowstone to Yukon
Alberta Wilderness Association
CPAWS Southern Alberta Chapter
Sierra Club Canada
19 Sep 2011

CALGARY -  Industrial and public motorized access routes in grizzly bear habitat greatly exceed thresholds recommended in the Alberta government’s official Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan. This issue is so critical that several Alberta Conservation organizations are calling for an immediate moratorium on new roads. Read more »

Press release and backgrounder on the Action Grizzly Bear website
Press release and backgrounder on the AWA website

Posted September 19, 2011 by AEN

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