In the News
- Three Sisters Development on CBC's Alberta at Noon (May 14)
- Listen to Y2Y's Karsten Heuer who took calls from listeners about development in wildlife corridors. (It starts around 18 minutes into the program.)
- Canmore Development Worries Conservation Groups (May 2)
- The receiver for the bankrupt Three Sisters mountain village in Canmore wants to expand the development. Critics say the ambitious plan could nearly double Canmore’s population, and conservation groups say wildlife would pay a steep price.
- Canmore Council Wants Public Input on Development (May 1)
- Canmore’s town council has delayed any approvals of an area structure plan for Three Sisters Mountain Village — a development that could add up to 10,000 residents — until it hears from the public later this month.
- Swamp People (Apr 26)
- Based on established environmental science and efforts like Y2Y, the Florida Wildlife Corridor cobbles together a path from Flamingo to the Okefenokee Swamp that connects public preserves, private ranches and even a military base into a guided vision for future conservation and public-private partnerships.
- Groups Want to See Work Done to Decrease Wildlife Collisions (Apr 23)
- Individuals from the Miistakis Institute, Western Transportation Institute (WTI) and Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) want something done to decrease the number of wildlife collisions.
- Wildlife Corridors: Understanding these Contentious Passageways of the Rockies (Apr 11)
- In the same way that they connect ecosystems, landscape corridors seem to emerge as a common theme among many of the most high-profile (and controversial) management issues in the Rockies.
- Daines Forges His Own Path (Apr 10)
- Rep. Steve Daines announced recently that he is joining Baucus and Tester in the fight to protect the North Fork Flathead River watershed by spearheading legislation in the U.S. House.
- In the Danger Zone (Apr 9)
- The Peace River is the most endangered river in B.C. and Site C’s potential approval in the next year or so is mainly to blame, according to the Outdoor Recreation Council of B.C (ORC).
- New Vineyards Could Create Conservation Challenges (Apr 9)
- Changing climate may well redraw the familiar map of world wine production, making it harder to grow grapes in some traditional regions while opening up new frontiers for vineyards.
- Study: Climate Change Will Threaten Wine Production (Apr 8)
- Climate change is quickly making it harder for some of the most famous wine-making regions in the Mediterranean to produce grapes, according to a new study published today.
- B.C. Group Fights For Peace, lower Frasier and Elk Rivers (Apr 8)
- Publication of the most recent list, to be released Monday, makes it clear that 21 years later, B.C. still has a lot to learn about managing its watersheds.
- Ian Brown: A City Slicker Reports on the Wild Life in Banff (Apr 6)
- Everyone who spends any length of time in Banff, the most famous small town in the country, has the wildlife conversation.
- Watershed Concerns Surface (Apr 5)
- What happens when the largest coal company in Canada mines near the banks of one of North America’s prime fisheries?
- Daines Holds Listening Session on Front Protection (Apr 4)
- A listening session hosted by Rep. Steve Daines to gather public input on a bill that would preserve current conditions on some 275,000 acres of public land on the Rocky Mountain Front drew 200 people to Choteau on Wednesday afternoon.
- Be Bear Aware in Banff (Apr 4)
- The first grizzly bear is out of its den in Banff, prompting national park wildlife experts to warn residents and visitors it’s the time of year to be bear aware.
- Expert Warns Against Commercial Logging Near Star Creek (Apr 2)
- A well-known forest scientist is concerned about a plan to allow logging near Star Creek — home to the threatened cutthroat trout — in the headwaters of the Crowsnest River valley, also prime grizzly bear habitat.
- Southern Alberta Land-Use Plan Raises Ire of Off-Road Users (Apr 1)
- Calgarian mauled by bear says it could end her recreation.
- Government Funds Assist Ecological Engagement (Mar 27)
- Two grants from the provincial government are aiding Y2Y and the Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley in spreading their messages to Albertans.
- Premier Launches Spirited Attack on CPAWS (Mar 22)
- Premier Darrell Pasloski harshly condemned the Yukon Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s (CPAWS’) work to protect wilderness areas in the territory during his 2013/2014-budget address Thursday.
- 'Elk River Is Being Poisoned' by Coal Mining, Study Finds (March 21)
- A new study by U.S. researchers warns that all is not well below the surface, where invisible pollutants – including selenium, a metal-like element that can cause spinal deformities in young fish – have reached alarming levels.
