About Us
Where the Rocky Mountains meet the Boreal
The Rocky Mountain Foothills contain a wonderful diversity of boreal ecosystems and an incredible variety of plant life, with forests of white spruce, black spruce, lodgepole pine, balsam and sub-alpine fir, aspen, birch, balsam poplar, mixedwood forests, wetland complexes. The Foothills provide important wildlife winter range because winters are warmer than in the adjacent Rocky Mountains. Woodland caribou, grizzly bear and wolverine roam widely in the relatively intact areas, and many migratory birds arrive from the tropics in the summer to raise their young. And yet only 1.2% of the Foothills have been protected from industrial use in a region of very intense industrial use by the forest and petroleum industries
The best remaining prospects for protection in the Foothills are Endangered Forests. A moratorium on new industrial activity within these endangered forests is required until a network of legislated protected areas are established in the Foothills. Designation of the protected areas must be based on ecological principles to ensure adequate size for wildlife habitat, regional representation of forest types, and ability to function as ecological benchmarks. The protected areas must support the traditional rights of local Indigenous Peoples.
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 The work cooperatively with various stakeholders to ensure that a healthy balance between ecological, social, and economic values is created in the Foothills Natural Region of Alberta. |
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 A foothills Natural Region where ecological, social, and economic values are maximized |
