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Dressed in a bear costume, Sean Nichols joins a protest Tuesday at the McDougall Centre against logging. Photograph by: Grant Black, Calgary Herald, Calgary Herald |
On Mar 18, 1998, the Castle wilderness was added to the list of Alberta’s ‘Special Places’. This program was an initiative to complete a network of protected areas to preserve the province's environmental diversity.
You’d never know that today, from the way this area is being treated.
- Bow River Shuttles
Protesters rally against logging
Plea for Castle, Bragg Creek woodlands
By Clara Ho And Darcy Henton,
Calgary Herald
February 15, 2012
Protesters in Calgary and Edmonton rallied Tuesday afternoon, waving banners and making speeches, in hopes of halting logging projects in the Castle and Bragg Creek regions.
About 50 representatives from various environmental and wildlife groups gathered on the steps of the McDougall Centre in downtown Calgary, wielding signs that read "Don't Clear-Cut my Heart" while the Calgary Raging Grannies sang "God Save the Bears."
Blank Valentine cards were also distributed so attendees could write to Premier Alison Redford and let her know how much they love their forests.
Gordon Petersen with the Stop Castle Logging Group said he wants the province to reconsider logging in the southwestern Alberta region, even though construction on an access road has already begun.
"We're concerned about grizzly bears, westslope cutthroat trout, bull trout, recreation, tourism-based businesses. There's a whole number of things we're concerned about in the Castle, and logging is going to be detrimental to all those things," Petersen said, adding members of the public have sent thousands of letters and e-mails to the premier and to MLAs with their concerns.
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| Art Works for Wild Spaces created this public art project in an attempt to protect trees from logging. the sie is along Highway 774, four kilometres south of the area being logged in the Castle region. Photo, Courtesy Art Works for Wild Spaces |
“Even the Art Works for Wild Spaces group, which ‘spotlights environmentally sensitive areas through art events,’ got involved with the case and wrapped several trees in the Castle region with colourful, handmade afghans in an act known as ‘yarn-bombing.’” - Calgary Herald
