A conservation easement agreement for a 3,000 acre ranch in southwestern Alberta has been reached with the Nature Conservancy of Canada. Owned by Reno and Corine Welsch, the ranch is located on the southern side of the Porcupine Hills, 20 kilometres north of Pincher Creek. It overlooks the Oldman River Valley and has been under […] Read more
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Montana mulls restoring historic bison herd
(Reuters) — The shaggy offspring of the United States’ only wild, purebred herd of bison are pitting Montana conservationists, federal wildlife managers, ranchers and Native American tribes against each other. Montana governor Steve Bullock is due to decide soon whether bison from Yellowstone National Park will be allowed to roam the state outside certain tribal […] Read more
Pasture changes hands
The Govenlock pasture in southwestern Saskatchewan has been transferred from one federal ministry to another. In a July 29 news release, Environment Canada announced it was taking over the pasture from Agriculture Canada. An official transfer date has not been announced and Environment Canada did not provide more information before Western Producer deadlines. It appears […] Read more
Are wetlands Mother Nature’s outhouse, or do they deserve more respect?
Nature plays a major role in one Saskatchewan village’s waste water management system. Vonda treats its waste water with two cells plus a man-made wetland, all of which are heavily populated with bulrushes and cattails, says mayor Dan Sembalerus. Sembalerus, who was born and raised in this small community northeast of Saskatoon, said he recalls […] Read more
Landowners eager to share piece of heaven
NANTON, Alta. — High in southern Alberta’s Porcupine Hills, where west winds wrestle the golden leaves of water birch and tickle the limber pines, water trickles from hidden springs into troughs at the Timber Ridge Conservation Site. That’s where the bears bathe. Glen and Kelly Hall didn’t set out to erect bear bathtubs when they […] Read more
Thanks to this researcher, prairie soil now stays put
It was a dry, hot, windy day in the spring of 2012. Snow had long since disappeared from the Prairies and weather stations everywhere reported high gusts. “Just looking out the window here. Nothing but blue sky everywhere. Twenty-five years ago, this would’ve been black,” said the voice on the phone. It was Agriculture Canada […] Read more
Stewardship is everyone’s responsibility
Ron De Pauw was blunt on June 8 when he said, “stewardship, stewardship, stewardship: if you are sitting there not giving a rat’s ass about anything, at least care about stewardship.” Ron was speaking to the 2012 graduating class of students from the University of Saskatchewan’s agriculture and engineering colleges. He was speaking to them […] Read more
Farmers used as bait in Fisheries Act
Agriculture minister Gerry Ritz and fisheries minister Keith Ashfield seem to be using farmers as bait to get the public to swallow the changes to the Fisheries Act included in the omnibus Budget Implementation Act (Bill C-38). They have stretched credibility to the breaking point by suggesting that the federal government is abandoning protection of […] Read more
