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Picket-line counter-posts site where locals & outfitter continue to hold back clear-cutting in Castle protected area
Alberta Government kicks public out
of protected area so Spray Lake Sawmills can clear-cut log See Government notice
Resident’s picket-line and outfitters camp continue to hold off clear-cutting a popular protected area in southwest Alberta
Failure of Alberta Government to listen results in residents out in force to protest logging
The Great Outdoors not 2x4s Click on the SLS logo to write a letter to save the Castle
Protest at the SLS open house in Blairmore. 
 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 map below shows some of the best remaining areas for protection in the Rocky Mountain Foothills based on large size, relative intactness (least roads) diverse forest types, grizzly bear, caribou ranges and other values. The Castle Area to the south is also part of our area of interest and is under immediate threat of logging.  1. Kakwa 2. Little Smoky 3. Bighorn |  Click here to send
your letter to the Government CLICK FOR PRINTABLE FLIER TO CIRCULATECLICK HERE FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES' TOURISM & RECREATION INDUSTRY ADVISORYOpinion Survey Opinion Survey Report, the Praxis Group - 3/4 of residents adjacent Castle oppose clear-cut logging in it & support increasing its protection by making it a Wildland Park.  More about Market Action & Crowsnest Forest |