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| Mac Blades (middle) fellow ranchers Frances Gardner and Gordon Cartwright recently won a long battle to have their drought-resistant heritage rangelands protected from coal bed methane and other energy developments. Photo by Ed Struzik. |
Don't Tell These Ranchers Climate Change Isn't Real
The push to make Alberta's cattle ranges drought resistant.
By Ed Struzik, TheTyee.ca, November 17, 2015
Among the many pictures on the walls of the Rocking P ranch house is one of owner Mac Blades with singer Ian Tyson and other local ranchers riding their horses across a snowy hillside in the Livingstone Mountain range of southwestern Alberta. The photo made the front pages of both national newspapers in the fall of 2002, when Tyson, Blades and the Pekisko group of ranchers went public with their call for a moratorium on oil and gas development in the region.
Their call came on the heels of the worst prairie drought in more than 70 years.
Read more here: http://thetyee.ca/…/20…/11/17/Alberta-Cattle-Ranges-Drought/
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