Friday, January 3, 2014

Rancher wants to protect grassland (with video)


Audrey Taylor, a rancher in the Milk River area, wants to put her leased land into heritage rangeland - a designation that would protect it from further development.
Photograph by: Lorraine Hjalte, Calgary Herald

Rancher wants to protect grassland (with video)
Draft plan covers 83,764 square km of Alberta land

By Colette Derworiz, Calgary Herald January 3, 2014

Audrey Taylor's pasture for her cattle is in the middle of the Milk River ridge, an internationally significant grassland that's home to rare fish, birds and plants. Deer and antelope regularly play in her yard.

Read article here:  http://bit.ly/193rEnw

In response to this article, Kevin Van Tighem writes: "We have until January 15 to persuade the planners to protect what grasslands currently remain. They are heading in the wrong direction - the draft plan proposes to sell up to a third of what native prairie still survives to irrigation farmers. Comments can be sent to bev.yee@gov.ab.ca"

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