Category Archives: Conservation
Wabamun Lake Fishery—2021
Copyright © 2021 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved [Please note: I have published a more recent (2024-04) Wabamun Lake update here.] [Note: Wabamun Lake is located about 60 km west of Edmonton, Alberta Canada. It is one of the most … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Fishing
Tagged Alberta Environment and Parks, Alberta regulations, burbot, catch-and-keep, catch-and-release fishing, class-c special harvest licence, Duane Radford, Fall Index Netting, FIN, fish-sustainability-index, fisheries, fisheries management, lake whitefish, northern pike, special harvest licence, train derailment, trophy lake, trophy pike, trophy-pike lake, Volunteer Biologists Group, Wabamun Lake, Wabamun power plant, Wabamun train derailment, walleye, walleye introduction, yellow perch
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A Dangerous Man with a Dangerous Concept—Cumulative Effects
Guest Blog: The following essay by guest blogger Lorne Fitch describes how one person has attempted to come to grips with our future by measuring the cumulative effects of all we do on the land. The piece was first published … Continue reading
Is Science Important Only During Pandemics?
Guest Blog: Biologist Lorne Fitch has once again provided an essay for my blog. It is an opinion piece that was first published in the May 14, 2020 Lethbridge Herald. Lorne’s previous essays posted here can be found by putting “Lorne … Continue reading
A Fisher at the Feeder
Copyright © 2019 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved “Don,” my wife said in a half-whisper. “Come quick.” It was an October morning just before sunrise, and I was doing my early morning routine of reviewing and deleting email messages … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, General, Wildlife
Tagged acreage, Alberta parkland, Alberta Trappers Association, Badry, blue jay, Calgary Zoo, Chris Fisher, Conservation Northwest, Don Pattie, Edmonton Area Land Trust, Fisher, fisher introductions, fisher reintroductions, infrared flash, infrared photography, J. Dewey Soper, parkland, Pattie, Pekania pennanti, Proulx, red squirrel, suet, suet cake, trail cam, U.S. National Park Service, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Washington State, Woodard
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Public Land – Alberta’s Best Idea
Apology: For those of you who have been waiting for me (Don) to update my blog (a steadily decreasing number, I know), I must apologize. I know in this fast-paced world blogs are to be regularly updated with fresh content … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, General, Lorne Fitch
Tagged Alberta public land, Attwater's Prairie Chicken, Eastern Slopes, healthy landscapes, natural heritage, other unimproved lands, public land, Sage Grouse, selling public land, Texas public land, Wallace Stegner, watersheds, wild land, wild space
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Bighorn Country—A Good Idea We Shouldn’t Squander
Note: In November of 2018, Alberta Environment and Parks opened a discussion about its proposal for the protection of the headwaters of the North Saskatchewan River, or Bighorn Country, an area that has been needing protection from abuse for many … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, General, Wildlife
Tagged Alberta Environment and Parks, Bighorn Country, Fish and Wildlife biologists, Fish and Wildlife Officers, Fish and Wildlife technicians, headwaters, land stewardship, North Saskatchewan River, public land use zone, Rachel Notley, Shannon Phillips, species-at-risk, threatened species, watershed, Wildland Parks
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Braking for the Planet – Learning the Limits
Guest Blog: Continual and increasing consumption of products and services is a corner stone of our economy. Technology leads that charge. In the following essay biologist Lorne Fitch (and frequent guest blogger here) explains how the on-going pace of technology isolates … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Lorne Fitch, Wildlife
Tagged Adam Norris, Arctic grayling, Athabasca rainbow trout, bull trout, Clayton Lamb, cruise control, cutthroat trout, economic values, environmental limits, environmental threshold, global warming, grassland songbirds, Jason Unruh, limits, linear features, over-consumption, over-consumptive lifestyle, prairie grasslands, regulatory limits, road density, social values, technology, threshold, tipping point, Travis Ripley, Wapiti River
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The Science behind OHV Restrictions
Guest Blog: With the creation in Alberta of the Castle provincial and wildlands parks, the proposed parks in the headwaters of the North Saskatchewan River (Bighorn) and the recreation plans for the Livingston and Porcupine areas of southern Alberta, there … Continue reading
Moving On
[Note: The following was first published in the December 2017 Alberta Outdoorsmen.] Copyright © 2017 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved. Knowing when to end something you’ve enjoyed doing can be difficult to do. Although I have enjoyed writing Rubs, Scrapes … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta Outdoorsmen, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife
Tagged Alberta Fish and Wildlife Divison, Alberta Outdoorsmen, catch-and-release, Climate Change, habitat conservation, habitat protection, Habitat Protection and Management Branch, last column, Outdoor Writers of Canada, Rob Miskosky
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