Activities to support habitat for greater sage grouse received a $1.27 million funding boost March 17 from the federal environment and climate change department. The money will fund initiatives through the Species At Risk Partnership on Agricultural Lands (SARPAL), which is part of the national conservation plan. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association announced the funding, saying […] Read more
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Feds fund greater sage grouse conservation efforts
Activities to support habitat for greater sage grouse received a $1.27 million funding boost March 17 from the federal environment and climate change department. The money will fund initiatives through the Species At Risk Partnership on Agricultural Lands (SARPAL), which is part of the national conservation plan. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association announced the funding, saying […] Read more
Grassland conservation gets significant funding injection
Weston Family Foundation donates $25 million to five organizations to help protect four million acres across the Prairies
Five organizations last week received funding to participate in one of the largest ever projects to conserve prairie grasslands. The $25-million project announced by the Weston Family Foundation is expected to accelerate stewardship efforts on four million acres in all three prairie provinces over the next five years. Each of the organizations submitted proposals to […] Read more
New guide helps farmers preserve grasslands
The Grassland Conservation Incentives Guide makes it easier for producers to find funding programs available to them
Producers and landowners now have a one-stop online shop to find financial incentives to help preserve, enhance or restore grasslands and other prairie habitats. The 69-page Grassland Conservation Incentives Guide from Birds Canada is now available at birdscanada.org. Ian Cook, grassland conservation manager at Birds Canada, said many producers understand the importance of keeping prairie […] Read more
Study seeks ranchers’ opinions on conservation
Farmers and ranchers in the four western provinces are being asked to give opinions on conservation programs. A research study conducted by Jeremy Pittman of the University of Waterloo seeks to determine which species-at-risk and endangered species conservation programs are most popular with landowners. Multisar (multiple species at risk) and the Alberta Conservation Association are […] Read more
Alberta ranch signs conservation agreement
Ranch family hopes the deal signed with Nature Conservancy Canada will protect their land from future development
Shane and Laurel Hansen were making their wills a few years ago and started thinking about the future of their southwestern Alberta property. Their 903 acres a few kilometres east of Waterton Lakes National Park could be prime real estate for campgrounds or country residential acreages, but that is a future they never want to […] Read more
Part of Alta. ranch joins conservation corridor
White Moose Ranch offers 2,000 acres to the Nature Conservancy of Canada to connect the Sheep and Highwood rivers
Two thousand acres of land in arguably one of the most picturesque regions of Alberta became part of a conservation agreement Oct. 11 between the Nature Conservancy of Canada and landowner Stan Carscallen. Those acres are a portion of Carscallen’s White Moose Ranch located west of Turner Valley and a 45-minute drive southwest of Calgary. […] Read more
Unique parcel of land in good hands with NCC, says owner
Bob Thomson remembers looking at a 158-acre property north of Stettler, Alta., about 20 years ago, accompanied by his then-two-year-old daughter. Landowner Harry Green had given him a week to consider buying the parcel, so Thomson put his daughter in a backpack and went to explore it. “We walked out on the ice — it […] Read more
Concern for land or just good business?
BRANDON — When Manitoba farmer Scott Day presented his new business model for farmland ownership, farmers attending meetings earlier this year sat up and paid attention. Day explained his role in a new farmland investment venture with a San Francisco based private equity firm called Fall Line Capital. While dozens of American farmland investment groups […] Read more
Bison may return to Banff
Sixteen bison will move to Banff National Park in February if Parks Canada decides to go ahead with reintroducing the species. A public comment period ended Nov. 30, and the feedback will be a factor in the final decision, said Karsten Heuer, project officer at the park. He told the Canadian Bison Association annual convention […] Read more
