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Wild Lands Advocate Vol. 14, No. 1, February 2006 February 2006 • Vol.14, No.1 Vol.14, February 2006 • AWA Kakwa Falls – (C. Olson) THE QUIET URBANIZATION OF THE BACKCOUNTRY / 4 WOLVES A CASUALTY IN LITTLE SMOKY / 11 GOVERNMENT SHOOTING ITSELF OVER GRIZZLY HUNT / 18 ALBERTANS SHARE MEMORIES OF ANDY RUSSELL / 22 Editorial Board: PROFILE Shirley Bray, Ph.D. CFebruaryONTENTS 2006 • VOL.14, NO. 1 Andy Marshall 26 LIGHTHAWK SEEKS A PERCH Joyce Hildebrand IN ALBERTA OUT FRONT Printing by: UPDATES 4 THE QUIET URBANIZATION OF Colour printing and process is THE BACKCOUNTRY: PART 2 sponsored by Topline Printing 28 LIVINGSTONE LANDOWNERS 9 THE LAND TRY ALCES 28 GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGES ALBERTA WILDERNESS WATCH AWA’S BIGHORN STUDY WOLVES THE LATEST CASUALTY IN ENVIRONMENTALLY SIGNIFICANT 11 28 Graphic Design: LITTLE SMOKY INDUSTRIAL PUBLIC GRASSLANDS SOLD FOR Ball Creative STRATEGY WIND FARM 14 IS ENCANA’S PROPOSED DRILLING 28 NEW PUBLIC CONSULTATION Wild Lands Advocate is IN THE SUFFIELD NATIONAL PROCESS FOR MOSS published bimonthly, 6 times WILDLIFE AREA ECONOMICALLY HOWSE PASS HIGHWAY PROPOSAL a year, by Alberta Wilderness SOUND? 29 SURFACES AGAIN Association. The opinions 18 GOVERNMENT SHOOTING ITSELF expressed by the authors OVER GRIZZLY HUNT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR in this publication are not necessarily those of AWA. 20 CROWSNEST LAKE, LAST GEM OF OWSE ASS IGHWAY IS The editors reserve the right THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 29 H P H VANDALISM to edit, reject or withdraw 22 ALBERTANS SHARE MEMORIES OF articles and letters submitted. ANDY RUSSELL 30 MORE CARPET BOMBING IN THE LIVINGSTONE-PORCUPINE Please direct questions 23 CWD IS OUT OF CONTROL and comments to: EVENTS 24 WHAT IS A RIVER TO US? Shirley Bray Phone: (403) 270-2736 25 GOVERNMENT SELLING OUT REST 31 OPEN HOUSE PROGRAM Fax: (403) 270-2743 OF MCCLELLAND LAKE WETLAND [email protected] COMPLEX 31 BEING CARIBOU WITH KARSTEN HEUER © Donna Jo Massie Box 6398, Station D, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2E1 Ph: (403) 283-2025 Toll-free 1-866-313-0713 www.albertawilderness.ca AWA respects the privacy of members. Lists are not sold or traded in any manner. AWA is a federally registered charity and functions through member and donor support. Tax-deductible donations may be made to AWA at Box 6398 Station e-mail: [email protected] D, Calgary, AB T2P 2E1. Ph:(403)283-2025 Fax:(403) 270-2743 E-mail: [email protected] www.albertawilderness.ca SUPPORT ALBERTA A LABOUR OF LOVE WILDERNESS Last year I was offered the privilege of joining BECOME A LIFETIME AWA MEMBER the Board of Directors of the Alberta Wilderness $25 SINGLE $30 FAMILY Association. This was truly an opportunity to commit to a labour of love and I readily accepted. SUBSCRIBE TO WILD LANDS ADVOCATE $30 SUPPORTER Like many AWA members, my inspiration from wilderness has been a lifelong experience. From my earliest days, my most treasured memories are WILDERNESS CIRCLE $2500+ of my times in the wilderness. One of the great attractions to being a part of PHILANTHROPIST $1000 the Alberta Wilderness Association is the opportunity to associate with so SUSTAINER $500 many others who have a similar depth of passion for the natural world. ASSOCIATE $100 While there are many worthwhile conservation and environmental SUPPORTER $50 organizations, I am particularly attracted to the mission of the Alberta OTHER $ Wilderness Association. I believe that a strong commitment to well-informed WILDERNESS PARTNERS advocacy is the only route to achieving genuine success in this arena. Donate on a monthly basis through direct debit As a board member, I deeply believe that I must give not only my time or credit card payment. but also my money (as meagre as it may be). This organization will not I would like to donate $_______ monthly. function without financial resources, and if I am not willing to commit some Here is my credit card number OR my voided of mine, how can I ask others to commit any of theirs? cheque for bank withdrawal. Monthly donations While there will always be important day-to-day financial needs, I also are processed on the 1st of the month. believe that it is important to consider how we give this organization the (minimum of $5 month) financial capacity to sustain it through any downturn in its normal sources of WILDERNESS LEGACY CIRCLE support. What do we do, for example, if one year we couldn’t run our highly Make lasting planned gifts by designating your successful Climb for Wilderness? As a donor, then, I contribute to both the bequest directly to AWA or AWA’s Wilderness annual campaigns and the Wilderness and Wildlife Trust Endowment at the and Wildlife Trust Fund managed by the Calgary Foundation. Calgary Foundation. Please call for details. I thank every member of the AWA for their great support of this outstanding organization and look forward to many more years of pursuing this labour of love. PAYMENT INFORMATION — Jim Campbell CHEQUE VISA M/C AMOUNT $ CARD # © Donna Jo Massie EXPIRY DATE: NAME: ADDRESS: CITY/PROV: POSTAL CODE: PHONE: E-MAIL: SIGNATURE: We are pleased to present again the watercolours of Donna Jo Massie Send payments to: in this issue, this time in colour. Ms. Massie’s biography was published in P.O. Box 6398, Station D Wild Lands Advocate, August 2002 Calgary, AB T2P 2E1 or donate online @ www.albertawilderness.ca 1-866-313-0713 THE QUIET URBANIZATION OF THE BACKCOUNTRY: PART 2 By Shirley Bray and Vivian Pharis The Panther to most people is sacred; it’s kind of the last frontier before the Ya Ha Tinda wildlands. — Ross Legge, Mountain Aire Lodge Long-time users of the seismic roads were opened up in pretty well whatever moved. We found backcountry of the west-central Alberta the 1950s and 1960s, he and others six ewes and lambs one time after one Bighorn Wildland are undeniably used vehicles to travel part way into weekend in the Clearwater, all shot and protective of its wild character. Alan the area. When Kananaskis Country left. I can tell you stories all day.” Brown has fond memories of the many was established and largely closed At the time, oufitters told AWA years he outfitted in the Panther River to motorized vehicles in 1979, many Board of Directors member Vivian area from the late 1950s to 1995. people migrated north to the Ghost- Pharis that their longstanding and He remembers the abundant elk that Waiparous and Bighorn areas. The stable tourism business was being roamed this montane region of rough resulting surge of vehicle use in the ruined by OHVs. As well, Panther fescue meadows, open aspen and central foothills backcountry created Corners is part of the Prime Protection conifer forests, and craggy foothills. S. Bray Warm chinook winds push through the broad mountain passes from Banff National Park and clear O snow from lower slopes and valley UT F floors, making this critical habitat RONT for overwintering wildlife. Panther Corners, as it is known, is bounded by the Panther River on the south, the Red Deer on the north, and Banff Park on the west, and is nicknamed “the diamond.” Brown hosted hunters from around the world, and often family members WLA February 2006 • Vol.14, Vol.14, February 2006 • WLA who accompanied them. Camps consisted of large canvas tents with carpeted or plywood floors. A well-run camp was rustic but comfortable. In the 1980s to 1990s there were at least 15 to 20 hunting camps. There was a different class of people up there at that time, he recalls. “They were more A view of the Panther River valley. sociable. The ones now are more or less on their own. They work a business of conflicts with outfitters and non- Zone (PPZ), the zone with the highest No.1 their own and they don’t give a damn if motorized users and put pressure on level of protection as designated in the they see anybody else around there.” wildlife. Eastern Slopes Policy, and is supposed Other things have changed, too. “Not only was it wrecking the to be non-motorized. Long-time users Elk numbers have dropped and the country, it was hard on the wildlife,” wanted to have the country closed to 4 government has drastically cut back recalls Gary Bracken, a Sundre resident OHVs before it was destroyed. elk-hunting permits. Currently there are who has spent many years in the West In 1985 the Panther Corners only 17 resident and two non-resident Country, including 28 years outfitting Forest Land Use Zone (FLUZ) was permits. The number of hunting camps in the Upper Clearwater area. “These one of four FLUZes created in the has diminished to three or four. guys would get in there in a truck, Bighorn Wildland to protect sensitive Brown used pack horses when they were ripping and snorting up and and scenic areas and wildlife. Except they first started outfitting. When down the river valley, and shooting for one trail in the Upper Clearwater, S. Bray they were all off-limits to motorized activity. The creation of the FLUZes was recommended by local residents, AWA, Forestry, and Fish and Wildlife officials during the preparation of the Nordegg-Red Deer River integrated resource plan (IRP) in the early 1980s. They were put in place on a trial basis for one year, and it was only persistent public support that made them a permanent reality. Not only have OHVs been kept out of the Panther since, but the public has helped keep out oil and gas and forestry activities as well. The outfitters went back to exclusive use of pack horses and wagons. But other changes were in the offing.
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