The Taylor family —Clayton, Rob, Audrey and Courtney won the 2024 Environmental Stewardship award.  |  Alberta Beef Producers photo

Taylor Ranches win environmental award

Family earns Alberta Beef Producers annual accolade with low-cost operation that produces its own feed

Glacier FarmMedia – Taylor Ranches has won the 2024 Environmental Stewardship Award from Alberta Beef Producers. It’s an honour for the family, said Rob Taylor, who owns and operates the ranch with his wife Audrey and their children. Rob, Audrey, and their two youngest children, Courtney and Clayton, live along the Milk River Ridge southwest […] Read more

The PronghornXing program hopes to enhance survival of pronghorn crossing the Trans-Canada Highway between Brooks, Alta., and Swift Current, Sask., which is a hot spot for the animals.  |  File photo

Program hopes to prevent pronghorn deaths

Alberta and Saskatchewan work with other organizations to make Trans-Canada Highway crossings safer for the animals


Wildlife crossings in the Rockies are a regular sight but a group of conservation and government officials in Alberta and Saskatchewan are looking to install safe areas for migrating pronghorn herds to cross the Trans-Canada Highway. The PronghornXing program is a joint initiative between the Miistakis Institute, Alberta Conservation Association and National Wildlife Federation with […] Read more

Dozens of gray partridge live on a small conservation plot near Enchant, Alta., as part of a partnership between Stamp Seeds, the Alberta Conservation Association and the Haggins family, who own the property.  |  Alex McCuaig photo

Project aims to encourage wildlife habitat development

A partnership between the Alberta Conservation Association, a farming family and the owners of a rented piece of agricultural land near Enchant, Alta., is proving successful in providing a refuge for wildlife and opportunity for upland game bird hunting. Surrounded by irrigated canola fields farmed by the Stamp family, the refuge lies in an undulating […] Read more