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National Parks: First Celebrate, Then FEBRUARY 2013 NATIONAL PARKS: FIRST CELEBRATE, THEN EVISCERATE SHHH?…FREEDOM OF InfORMATION IN ALBERTA LOGGING THE CRADLE OF BULL TROUT TOASTING THE MILK RIVER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Editor: Ian Urquhart CONTENTS Graphic Design: FEBRUARY 2013 • VOL. 21, NO. 1 Marni Wilson Printing: Colour printing and process is sponsored FEATURES ASSOCIATION NewS by Topline Printing 4 CANADA’S NATIONAL PARKS: 23 LORNE FITCH, ALDO LEOPOLD, WE CELEBRATED THEM IN 2011, AND LIVING A LAND ETHIC: THE EVISCERATED THEM IN 2012 FIFTH ANNUAL MARTHA KOSTUCH LECTURE 11 ACCESS TO ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION IN ALBERTA: WHERE WILdeRNESS WATCH ARE WE TODAY? 25 UPDATES 14 A PRIVATE LITTLE MATTER: WHAT’S HAPPENING IN HIDDEN DEPARTMENTS CREEK? ALBERta WILDERNESS ASSOciatiON 29 READER’S CORNER: THE BEAVER 18 CELEBRATING THE GOOD THINGS MANIFESTO “Defending Wild Alberta through WE’VE DONE Awareness and Action” Alberta Wilderness Association is a EVENTS CARDSTON COUNTY: COMPOSTING charitable non-government organization 21 dedicated to the completion of a COWS TO CONSERVE CARNIVORES 31 EVENTS protected areas network and the conservation of wilderness throughout the province. To support our work COVER PHOTO with a tax-deductible donation, call Through the lens of Cliff Wallis’s camera it’s not hard to see why Writing on 403-283-2025 or contribute online Stone Provincial Park is regarded by First Nations as a sacred landscape. at AlbertaWilderness.ca. Wild Lands Advocate is published bi-monthly, 6 times a year, by Alberta Wilderness Association. The opinions expressed by the authors in this publication are not necessarily those EATURED RTIST F A of AWA. The editor reserves the right Dan Hudson is a Canadian artist based in Canmore, Alberta and Berlin, to edit, reject or withdraw articles and Germany. He received a BFA in Visual Art at York University in Toronto and letters submitted. studied anthropology at the University of California at San Diego. Dan’s art practice includes photography, video, painting, and sculpture. He has received Please direct questions and comments to: numerous awards for his art and his exhibitions have garnered much critical 403-283-2025 • [email protected] attention. Dan’s work is exhibited internationally and is represented in the collections of museums, public galleries and private collections throughout Subscriptions to the WLA are $30 per North America and Europe. year. To subscribe, call 403-283-2025 While working as an artist, Dan also conducted a highly successful career or see AlbertaWilderness.ca. as a photo journalist with more than 60 international cover shots as well as thousands of images in major publications around the world. Adventure photography assignments involving extreme mountain sports in some of the wildest places on the planet brings a unique perspective to Hudson’s art practice. He connects an intimacy with nature to everyday life in contemporary culture. For more information about Dan Hudson’s art and photography please visit: http://www.danhudson.ca/ Box 6398, Station D, Calgary, Alberta T2P 2E1 403-283-2025 AWA respects the privacy of members. Lists are not sold or traded in any manner. AWA is a federally registered charity Toll-free 1-866-313-0713 and functions through member and donor support. Tax-deductible donations may be made to AWA at Box 6398 Station D, www.AlbertaWilderness.ca Calgary, AB T2P 2E1. Ph: 403-283-2025 Fax: 403-270-2743 E-mail: [email protected] www.AlbertaWilderness.ca [email protected] ISSN 1192-6287 A Bit of This, A Bit of That You’ve been on the road all day. You’re national parks reminds me of elder The features section wraps up famished, dog-tired too. You hate take abuse – it’s serious, it’s taking place right with Nigel Douglas’s enlightening out. The last thing you want to do is under our noses, and not enough of us are examination of a promising Cardston stop to pick up groceries. You hope that demanding that it stop. County program to manage predator- when you get home you’ll discover the The exception noted above is landowner relationships in the county – makings of a decent meal. Finding a bit Adam Driedzic’s piece on freedom of cow composting. of this in your fridge and a bit of that in information legislation in Alberta. It’s The epicentre reference to Hidden your cupboards you improvise and the quite an optimistic appraisal of how Creek is taken from Lorne Fitch’s Martha end product is…not bad, damn fine in Alberta’s Office of the Information Kostuch lecture of last November. This fact. and Privacy Commissioner helps issue offers you a synopsis of Lorne’s This issue of the Wild Lands Advocate conservation organizations such as AWA views on the work of Aldo Leopold, a might be viewed this way. Unlike past fulfill their mandates. North American conservation icon. I issues one theme doesn’t animate the Sean Nichols then opens the blinds to hope our summary of Lorne’s lecture features section. Instead, what we’ve what is taking place in Hidden Creek, will lead you to do what I did – find and done is share, with one exception, a “the epicentre of bull trout spawning read a copy of Leopold’s A Sand County number of pieces on different subjects in for the Oldman watershed.” Road- Almanac. that have been saved in the editorial building and logging in this watershed In our upcoming issues the features vault for a number of months now. They highlights glaring shortcomings in the section will again be oriented around haven’t reached their expiry dates and province’s risk assessment process. specific themes or issues: April will look each piece is an important ingredient Next, Christyann Olson invites you at the federal government’s changes to producing what the Advocate aspires to a party, a party celebrating the 20th to environmental legislation, June will to – helping readers build a damn fine birthday of the Milk River Management feature articles celebrating nature and understanding of this crazy, wonderful Committee. This committee, where outdoor activities, and August will place we call Alberta. many land-use interests are represented, present an assessment of the land-use I lead off with an indictment of the has worked hard and well to promote framework that will be two years old by federal government’s national parks responsible land stewardship in southeast then. policy. The damage being done to our Alberta. - Ian Urquhart, Editor Correction Occasionally, we don’t get things as right as we would like to. A case in point was our December 2012 article “Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute and the Willmore Wilderness.” We were mistaken to identify the Willmore Biodiversity Research Project as an ABMI project. It isn’t. The primary partnership is between Alberta Tourism, Parks, and Recreation (ATPR) and Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures (AITF). ABMI has helped fund the project but its support, while very welcome, amounted to less than 10 percent of the project’s budget. The majority of the funding came from Tourism, Parks, and Recreation; ATPR and AITF implemented the program. AWA applauds the fundamental role these organizations played in the Willmore Project. Canada’s National Parks: We Celebrated Them in 2011, Eviscerated Them in 2012 BY IAN URQUHART, EDITOR If a tree falls in the forest does ou decide. What lyric best fits proportionately. The unlucky ones are anybody hear? the path the federal government shown the door. Anybody hear the forest fall? Yplunged Parks Canada down I like to think I’ve been a friend of Cut and move on on at the end of March and April of this Canada’s national parks ever since my Cut and move on year? On March 29 Ottawa unveiled first trip to Banff National Park as a wee its 2012 federal budget; on April 30 the lad. I still remember that 10 year-old’s - Bruce Cockburn, “If a Tree Falls” federal government publicized the first first view of Mount Rundle. Far-out. round of “work force adjustment notices” I’ve learned since then that being a the Conservatives will make as they try friend of our national parks isn’t always The smoke of our fire rises to cut federal spending. A work force easy. Telling our two little rockhounds, to the skyscraper pines and fir. adjustment notice - in more honest, less Andrea and Kali, that they couldn’t take We’ll sit around it all evening and Orwellian language - means you may treasure home with them from Jasper sing lullabies back to the birds well lose your job (here at the University prompted many tears, glares, and a drop - Parks Canada, “The Park Song” (a of Alberta my bosses refer to terminating in popularity even ice cream couldn’t campfire song written to commemorate employees as “job disruptions”). Lucky restore. the centennial of Parks Canada in 2011) work force “adjustees” only see full- Today is again one of those times when time employment shrink into part-time friendship demands actions that court status; sadly their mortgages and other unpopularity in some quarters. Today, costs of living a good life are not reduced my hope to be a good friend of our 4 WLA | February 2013 | Vol. 21, No. 1 | FEatuRES Cavell Glacier, Jasper National Park © M. BRADLEY corporate plan put the agency’s forecast $139.7 million, 19.7 percent less than the spending for the 2011/12 fiscal year spending forecast for 2011-12. at $709.7 million. As Table 1 shows, Spin doctors might try to soothe our this plan suggested that, three years anxiety here by noting the sharp drop in from now, Parks Canada plans to spend planned spending in the Townsite and $110.5 million less than forecast for this Throughway Infrastructure program year.
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