Tag Archives: Alberta Environment and Parks
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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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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“A Modest Proposal” for Alberta’s Caribou?
Guest Blog: Alberta Environment and Parks is requesting public input into its woodland caribou range planning efforts. The deadline for input is July 27, 2017, but AEP will accept comments about specific plans after that date. In the following essay … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, General, Lorne Fitch, Wildlife
Tagged A Modest Proposal, AEP, Alberta Caribou Plan, Alberta Environment and Parks, caribou, caribou extirpation, caribou habitat, caribou range planning, caribou recovery plan, cumulative effects, FIN 37, forest management, habitat fragmentation, John Steinbeck, Jonathan Swift, Lorne Fitch, Northrup Frye, old-growth forest, species-at-risk, wolf control, woodland caribou
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Are We Underutilizing Our Walleye?
[Note: The following was first published in the November 2016 Alberta Outdoorsmen.] Copyright © 2016 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved. On arriving at the rural community hall, I saw the parking lot overflowing with pickups, cars and recreational vehicles. As … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Alberta Outdoorsmen, Conservation, Fishing
Tagged Alberta Environment and Parks, anglers, angry anglers, Catch per Unit Effort, David Park, Fall Walleye Index Netting, FWIN, Jordan Walker, Lac Bellevue, Lac Bellevue Community Hall, lake white fish, Long Lake, northeast Alberta lakes, northern pike, Ray Danyluk, Ray Makowecki, Underutilized Fish Stocks, Vincent Lake, walleye, yellow perch, zero catch-and-keep limits
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The Shifting Baseline
[Note: The following was first published in the January 2016 Alberta Outdoorsmen.] Copyright © 2016 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved. People of my age and older can remember (if barely) when a cup of coffee cost only five cents. Of … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Alberta Outdoorsmen, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife
Tagged AEP business plan, Alberta Environment and Parks, Alberta Park, biodiversity, business plan, catch-and-release, environmental baseline, environmental degradation, fish and wildlife conservation, Fish and Wildlife Division, fish and wildlife management, habitat, northern pike, parks, shifting baseline, shifting environmental baseline, species-at-risk
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An Open Letter to the Premier and Minister
[Note: The following was first published in the July 2015 Alberta Outdoorsmen.] Copyright © 2015 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved. We are at a turning point in the history of this province. A totally new government is taking over … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta Outdoorsmen, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Hunting, Wildlife
Tagged ACA, AEMERA, Alberta Conservation Association, Alberta Environment and Parks, Alberta Environmental Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting Agency, Alberta Fish and Wildlife Division, Alberta Government, Alberta Outdoorsmen, anglers, boreal forest, fish and wildlife, headwaters, Premier Notley, Shannon Phillips, Two Fish One Fish No Fish, woodland caribou
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