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Fly South Young Grouse Tracing the Red Deer River Time to Grow up in the Boreal an Elegy for a Crowsnest Predator Editor: C ONTENTS Ian Urquhart June 2012 • VOL JUNE 2012 FLY SOUTH YOUNG GROUSE TRACING THE RED DEER RIVER TIME TO GROW UP IN THE BOREAL AN ELEGY FOR A CROWSNEST PREDATOR Editor: C ONTENTS Ian Urquhart JUNE 2012 • VOL. 20, NO. 3 Graphic Design: Marni Wilson FEATURES ASSOCIATION NEWS Printing: AWA’S 2012 PRIORITIES: FOCUS 21ST ANNUAL CLIMB AND RUN Colour printing and process is sponsored 4 18 by Topline Printing ON FORESTS FOR WILDERNESS 5 FLY SOUTH YOUNG GROUSE WILDERNESS WATCH THE BEGINNING AND THE END – 10 UPDATES A SUMMER HOLIDAY EXPERIENCE 21 11 MOVING PAST INfaNCY: DEPARTMENTS CUMULATIVE EFFECTS MANAGEMENT IN ALBERTA’S 26 RECALL OF THE WILD BOREAL FOREST 30 IN MEMORIAM: PHYLLIS HART ALbertA WiLderNess 14 AN ELEGY FOR THE AssOciAtiON CROWSNEST BULL TROUT “Defending Wild Alberta through EVENTS Awareness and Action” Alberta Wilderness Association is a 31 SUMMER EVENTS charitable non-government organization dedicated to the completion of a protected areas network and the COVER PHOTO conservation of wilderness throughout Chris Wearmouth’s evocative image of the boreal forest in the vicinity of the province. to support our work Mcclelland Lake. the Mcclelland Lake wetland complex will be sacrificed for with a tax-deductible donation, call the Fort Hills Oil sands Project. 403-283-2025 or contribute online at AlbertaWilderness.ca. Wild Lands Advocate is published bi-monthly, 6 times a year, by Alberta Wilderness Association. the opinions FEATURED ARTIST eileen raucher-sutton is this issue’s featured artist. Other examples of expressed by the authors in this eileen’s impressive work may be seen at members.shaw.ca/eileenrs/ and she publication are not necessarily those of AWA. the editor reserves the right may be reached at [email protected] or (780) 449- 5312. Her reflections about to edit, reject or withdraw articles and her art follow: letters submitted. The wilderness presents a challenge to the adventurous in spirit – people who need to see what was over the next hill. it was this same spirit that brought Please direct questions me to Alberta in 1984 from N.Y.c. where i was born, studied and received a and comments to: Master’s degree in Fine Art. the mountains and glaciers i paint are indeed 403-283-2025 • [email protected] an awesome challenge. i knew these mountains were my spiritual place long subscriptions to the WLA are $30 per before i got here. i feel my oneness with the universe. year. to subscribe, call 403-283-2025 I believe a prime function of artists in society is to evoke in the viewer a or see AlbertaWilderness.ca. new and exciting visualization or conceptualization. in 1973 i had my first experience of the rocky Mountains. My immediate reaction was “i am so grateful to have lived to see this!!” the shapes were magnificent; the colors were subtle and incredibly beautiful. i had found a subject that excited me visually and through which i could express the philosophy in my paintings, “man’s humble place in the universe”. My art melds external and internal realities: a spiritualized expression of nature’s underlying character. My mature work represents my personal synthesis of modernist principles with my intuitive response to nature’s forces box 6398, station d, and flows. My paintings express the layering, ambiguity, subtlety, sensuality calgary, Alberta t2P 2e1 and spirituality of life. 403-283-2025 toll-free 1-866-313-0713 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 Box 6398 Station D, Calgary, AB T2P 2E1. Ph: 403-283-2025 Fax: 403-270-2743 E-mail: [email protected] www.AlbertaWilderness.ca issN 1192-6287 Time Clichés about time are about as two by fours irreversibly mutates the plentiful as cowboy hats on Calgary’s northern landscape. But that window of 17th Avenue during Stampede week. opportunity is closing rapidly. For me time is among the most precious Lorne Fitch’s elegy for the Crowsnest resources; I really have something to bull trout is a poignant reminder of how celebrate when I’m able to point to “time quickly we can condemn species to well spent.” death in all or part of their historic range. Time also is a thread we could use to Lorne’s passion for this magnificent connect the features awaiting you in this predator is obvious in his story; so too is issue of Wild Lands Advocate. They take the message that we should learn from you on journeys to the western United this history. States, to the headwaters of the Red Deer Tjarda Barratt’s trip from the River, to Alberta’s boreal forest, and to the headwaters of the Red Deer River Crowsnest River where massive bull trout to that river’s union with the South once prowled. Each of these features, Saskatchewan is a wonderful life lesson. in its own way, reminds us of just how Take time to reflect about aspects of the valuable time is and suggests that the wise natural world we may take for granted among us will not squander it. (in Tjarda’s case the water flowing by her Considering the state of greater sage- home). Make time to investigate those grouse in the western U.S. inspires both reflections. Fun, friendship, wonder, fear and optimism. Fear arises from soulfulness…those may be your rewards. recognizing just how little time there is Apart from these feature articles left for Canadian governments to take this issue also salutes the sponsors, meaningful action to protect critical volunteers, and participants who made grouse habitat in our grasslands; optimism this year’s Climb and Run for Wilderness arises from the lessons that recent history a tremendous success. Recall of the Wild in the U.S. offers us. In the American tells the story of Michael Bloomfield, one West strong environmental legislation of Alberta’s longstanding champions of plus political will delivers real hope for woodland caribou. Updates aplenty also endangered species. wait in the pages to follow. Carolyn Campbell’s piece on the Finally Christyann Olson bids farewell cumulative effects of industrialization to Phyllis Hart, a dear friend of AWA and in the boreal forest alert us once again many of you. “Time well spent” is clearly to the urgent need for government a label we should use to characterize to take the time needed to craft and Phyllis’s life and the lives of all who were implement a biodiversity strategy on able to meet her. those lands. We still have time to do that before our thirst for oil and appetite for - Ian Urquhart, Editor AWA’s 2012 Priorities: Focus on Forests BY SEAN NICHOLS, AWA Outreach Specialist n the April issue of WLA, we local groups have been running their Waterton National Park, the castle has introduced a yearlong series on own campaigns to oppose local clear- the highest diversity of plant and animal AWA’s Top 10 priorities for 2012 by cut logging issues. AWA has recently species in Alberta (more than half of Iexamining the plight of two of Alberta’s been working with a number of these Alberta’s 1,600 plants can be found in the most endangered animal species: the organizations to develop a more castle, including over 158 rare species.) woodland caribou, and the greater sage- comprehensive vision for the way The Castle is also an outstanding grouse. in this issue, we continue the sustainable forest management could be location for various low-impact series by shifting that focus to Alberta’s realized in southern Alberta. recreational opportunities. AWA and forests. Forests are often called the “earth’s In addition to those on Alberta’s other conservation groups are calling for Lungs” due to the role they play in southern eastern slopes, the forests on the protection of the Castle as a Wildland regulating the balance between oxygen the northern eastern slopes and those Park. clearcut logging must be halted. and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. of the vast northern boreal each have Oil and gas activity should be phased out, While that is an accurate metaphor, they their own distinct biological features according to the Canadian Association of are also so much more than that. this is and also their own distinct concerns for Petroleum Producers and Environment nowhere more true than here in Alberta, AWA. in this issue of WLA, carolyn Non-Government Organizations (cAPP- where our forests play a vital part not Campbell writes about the third of these eNGO) agreement to phase out existing only in renewing our air, but also our three forested areas, the boreal, and oil and gas dispositions. water. they provide habitat for many of discusses the impacts on that ecosystem Nigel douglas takes this opportunity Alberta’s wild species, both threatened from the oil sands industry and from to investigate how local residents also and not, and an anchor for ecosystems climate change. she talks with dr. erin feel about the castle. He looks at a and Natural regions throughout the bayne at the university of Alberta about community Values survey commissioned province. the southern boreal’s (not so) gradual by the Md of Pincher creek, which conversion into aspen parkland. includes the castle, of those residents. Deep and Vibrant Ecosystems The other of AWA’s top 10 priorities The survey indicates that along with most There is an urgent need to create an that we look at in this issue concerns one Albertans, local residents feel strongly alternative model of forest management of the forest areas that has been in the that the priorities for their local public in Alberta.
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