Alberta not protecting Castle Special Place
By Lethbridge Herald, Opinon on December 3, 2013.
Katie Morrison
CONSERVATION DIRECTOR, CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY – SOUTHERN ALBERTA CPAWS Southern Alberta
The Castle Special Place provides clean water for communities and farms downstream, is home to at-risk species such as grizzly bear and bull trout, and offers world-class recreational opportunities. For more than 20 years, Alberta communities, conservation organizations, recreationalist and local businesses have been calling for legislated protection of the Castle Special Place.
Yet the draft South Saskatchewan Regional Plan, released in October, recommends protecting only the Castle’s rocky mountain tops as a Wildland Park and proposes to designate a few of its valleys as ill-defined Conservation Management Areas. The rest of this iconic landscape, including its headwaters, is left unprotected and is slated for forestry and road-building.
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More info here: http://cpaws-southernalberta.org/campaigns/castle
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