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DECEMBER 2017 Editor: CONTENTS Ian Urquhart DECEMBER 2017 • VOL DECEMBER 2017 Editor: CONTENTS Ian Urquhart DECEMBER 2017 • VOL. 25, NO. 4 Graphic Design: Keystroke Design & Production Inc. Doug Wournell B Des, ANSCAD Features Association News www.keystrokedesign.com Printing by: 4 Alberta “Tackles” Fish Recovery in 22 How Many Bucks Does it Take? Topline Printing Inc. North-Central Eastern Slopes www.toplineprinting.ca 24 Louise Guy Poetry Corner 8 After Obed: The Path to Better Dam Printed on FSC Safety Regulation 25 Nose Hill Park: AWA Offers A First Look At An Old Grassland Certified Paper 11 Five Days on the Bighorn Historic Trail 14 Cleaning Up After Ourselves: Oil Sands Mine Liability Program Needs Major Reform Wilderness Watch Conservation Corner: How to Hunt 17 Updates for Nighthawks 27 20 “Ho Ho, Hey Hey Caribou are here 30 Reader’s Corner to stay!” ALBERTA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION Cover Photos “Defending Wild Alberta through Heinz Unger’s photo reminds us of what Awareness and Action” inspired Alberta Wilderness Association Alberta Wilderness Association is in 1972 to propose a wilderness area in a charitable non-government the Elbow, Sheep, and Kananaskis valleys, organization dedicated to the a proposal that helped to encourage the completion of a protected areas Lougheed government to protect parts donation, call 403-283-2025 or of Kananaskis country in 1978. The contribute online at Kananaskis river is in the foreground AlbertaWilderness.ca. while the background is set by the Patrick range (left) and Fisher range (right). Heinz Wild Lands Advocate is published took this photo in early November…it was minus 20 degrees C. PHOTO: © H. UNGER four times a year, by Alberta Wilderness Association. The opinions expressed by the authors in this publication are Featured Artist: Tess Stieben not necessarily those of AWA. The Your editor had the pleasure of meeting Tess Stieben at the Edmonton Farmer’s Market editor reserves the right to edit, reject or in late October and is very pleased to included Tess’s acrylic and watercolour paintings withdraw articles and letters submitted. in the December issue of your magazine. Please direct questions “By focusing attention on creatures that bless us with their presence I hope to inspire and comments to: viewers to contemplate the magnificent environment in which they live. The earth is 403-283-2025 • [email protected] more than a landscape to enjoy; it is a living delicately balanced ecosystem.” Born in Powell River, BC, Teresa (Tess) Stieben taught workshops and visual art Subscriptions to the WLA are $30 per through city programs in Creston BC, Camrose, Calgary, Hinton AB, and Manitoba. year. To subscribe, call 403-283-2025 Stieben began her studies at the University of Manitoba, and in 2002 graduated from the or see AlbertaWilderness.ca. University of Calgary earning a BFA with Distinction. Numerous hours of field research devoted to watching and photographing the natural world advise and inspire her work as a painter, photographer, printmaker, and multi-media eco-art sculptor. Stieben’s environment based sculptures and nests built from recycled media speak to the demise of the natural landscape and surrounding ecosystems as a result of human shortsightedness. Inspired by the quote above, Tess hopes her artistic practice will encourage recognition and protection of the natural landscape with its native plants, birds, and varied wildlife. Learn more about her Eco-art nests at stiebentess.wordpress.com and her paintings at teresastiebenart.blogspot.ca. If you would like to email Tess her email address is stieben. [email protected] 455-12 ST NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1Y9 Tess’s art also may be found at The Art Gallery of St Albert, The Wildbird General 403-283-2025 Store in Edmonton, and at Ellis Bird Farm in Lacombe (Ellis Bird Farm is closed for the season and will reopen in May 2018). www.AlbertaWilderness.ca [email protected] 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 455-12 ST NW, Calgary, AB T2N 1Y9. Ph: 403-283-2025 Fax: 403-270-2743 E-mail: [email protected] www.AlbertaWilderness.ca ISSN 1192-6287 A Tonic for 2018: Working Together With Discipline and Persistence Throughout 2017 it’s been a challenge not dent who was wearing it. His T-shirt said “Be change. As a man changes his own nature, to let a sense of melancholy, even despair, get the Change You Want to See in the World.” so does the attitude of the world change to- the better of me. Events south of the bor- Many of you might say “Oh yes, Mahatma wards him. … We need not wait to see what der bear some responsibility here. The mad, Gandhi’s phrase.” In fact, it’s unlikely Gand- others do.” vicious attack in the United States on civil- hi actually said or wrote those exact words It’s how Morton interprets Gandhi’s re- ity, decency, and compassion by “He-Who- (more on that in a moment). marks and his search for change that invig- Must-Not-Be-Named” should appall anyone The point I seize is that individuals can orates me. Morton doesn’t believe Gandhi who believes public life and progress de- matter. The phrase invited me to remem- is suggesting a single individual can change mand empathy and respect for others. ber just how many individuals, through anything. He’s saying instead that personal But in my case, malaise is nurtured by more their skill and dedication, have contributed and social transformation walk together. than the Dark Lord of Pennsylvania Avenue. to positive changes. Vandava Shiva, David Gandhi was encouraging “an awareness that It’s fueled by the conviction that govern- Brower, Colleen McCrory, David Suzuki, unjust authority can be overturned only by ments and corporations in too many locales Martha Kostuch…the list goes on and on. great numbers of people working together continue to fail to give the environment the They and others testify powerfully that in- with discipline and persistence.” priority it demands. This failing isn’t just dividuals who don’t have the institutional This interpretation is the tonic I need as one of 2017, it’s one of the last generation. power of the White House or Exxon-Mo- 2018 looms on the horizon. Work together On some fronts, such as climate change, our bil can make a difference; they can “be the with discipline and persistence is the advice failing may be existential for kin in less de- change” and drag some of the more reluctant I’m embracing as I head into next year. AWA veloped parts of the world. On other fronts, members of the powerful along with them. is my vehicle for implementing that advice. such as species at risk, the existential threat Which takes me back to Gandhi. Bri- I hope you will join me and make it your is faced by the flora and fauna Alberta Wil- an Morton, writing in the New York Times, vehicle for pursuing healthier environments derness Association defends. couldn’t find any reliable evidence that and wilder spaces. Check back here in De- So, between grading papers and getting Gandhi ever said “be the change.” The clos- cember 2018 and I’ll let you know what I ready to move to Calgary, I’ve been looking est verifiable remark Morton could unearth think the tonic accomplished! for a tonic to restore my sense of optimism was, in part: “If we could change ourselves, -Ian Urquhart, Editor about the future. The other day I saw a stu- the tendencies in the world would also Alberta “Tackles” Fish Recovery in North-Central Eastern Slopes By Joanna Skrajny, AWA Conservation Specialist new provincial effort – the to hundreds of thousands in SK, MB, and lation growth, habitat degradation, habitat North-Central Native Trout Re- ON. We also have the dubious honour of fragmentation, and poaching. All of these A covery program – aims to recov- living in a province with the highest amount factors complicate any effort at restoring na- er threatened bull trout and other native fish of industrial disturbance and road networks tive fish populations. such as Arctic grayling, mountain whitefish, outside of the Maritimes. This disturbance Take bull trout, for example. The Commit- and endangered Athabasca rainbow trout in causes widespread habitat destruction and tee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in the central-northern east slopes of Alberta. degradation. With a growing population, Canada (COSEWIC) lists three main factors It’s no secret that Alberta has needed to see this vast road network has meant that vir- as responsible for the decline of bull trout: this action for decades. Alberta’s coldwater tually no lake or stream is safe from human loss of habitat through degradation and frag- fish have been in a lake of trouble for a long access by car or OHV. On top of all of this, mentation, hybridization and competition time: major declines began in the late 1800s the cold streams and lakes in Alberta are rel- with introduced species, and overexploita- to the early 1900s, when the first boom atively unproductive, which means it takes a tion (overfishing). However, they cautioned of settlers overfished streams and lakes long time for our fish to grow and reproduce. that the degree to which each of these factors throughout the province. Many species Recovery is slow. is contributing to decline should not be gen- were overfished intentionally so that settlers As you may imagine, it is incredibly chal- eralized and likely varies from watershed to could introduce fish species that they were lenging to recover trout in a resource-ex- watershed.
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