Tag Archives: land-use
Fisheries Management: Complex, Complicated and Poorly Comprehended
Guest Blog: Alberta Environment and Parks is proposing plans to recover native trout in Alberta’s Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The plans call for the closing of fishing along many streams to allow the trout populations to recover. However, many … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Lorne Fitch
Tagged catch-and-release, cumulative effects, cumulative effects analysis, Eastern Slopes, fish conservation, fish harvest, fisheries biologists, fisheries management, habitat management, land use footprint, land-use, Lorne Fitch, native trout, non-native trout, riparian buffers, riparian habitat, watershed management
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Why the Rush?
[Note: The following was first published in the December 2011 Alberta Outdoorsmen.] Copyright © 2011 Don H. Meredith All Rights Reserved (including those claimed by educational institutions and boards!) It seems every time I go into the field, I find … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Alberta Outdoorsmen, Conservation, Environment, Wildlife
Tagged Alberta, caribou recovery plan, forestry, land-use, land-use framework, land-use strategy, oil development, pace of development, petroleum development, resource development, wildlife conservation, wildlife refuge, woodland caribou, woodland caribou recovery
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The Framework
On May 21, 2008, Alberta government Minister of Sustainable Resources Development, Ted Morton, released his long-awaited Draft Land-use Framework for Alberta. In my July column for the Alberta Outdoorsmen, I discussed the draft framework and how it has a long … Continue reading
