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60 Years Defending Wild Alberta

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By Vivian Pharis, Melissa M. Tierney, Ruiping Luo
| albertawilderness.ca
60 Years Defending Wild Alberta • • • It was time to take action. By Vivian Pharis, with the help of Sameer Dossa and Melissa Tierney. Read the PDF version here. It all started around a kitchen table. It was 1965 and a group of folks gathered to discuss how Alberta’s land policy was destroying, not preserving, the province’s public wild spaces. It was time to take action.
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Bighorn Country - a Bizarre Fall and Winter - Alberta Wilderness Association

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By Vivian Pharis
| albertawilderness.ca
« Bighorn Country – a Bizarre Fall and Winter March 1, 2019 • • • By Vivian Pharis, AWA Emeritus Board Member Bizarrely this past fall, the possibility of Bighorn Country was sprung upon us. It appeared as a complex plan covering a massive land area. After 50 years of working to see this grand and wondrous idea realized, at least for the approximately 4,000 square kilometres of alpine and subalpine that AWA calls the Bighorn Wildland, I should have felt relief and joy. I didn’t.
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Bighorn - Alberta Wilderness Association

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By Vivian Pharis
| albertawilderness.ca
The Bighorn • • • Ya Ha Tinda Photo: AWA Files The AWA is seeking legislated protection of the Bighorn as a Wildland Provincial Park as was promised by the provincial government in 1986. Introduction Features Concerns History Trail Monitoring Archive Other Areas The Bighorn is cherished for its cool, clean water running through gravel beds, wide open valleys, lush floodplains and unique mountain ranges. PHOTO: © H.
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