2011-10-24 Media Advisory: Southwest Forests News Conference
A new report is launched Tuesday October 25 - Sustainable Forests, Sustainable Communities: The Future of Alberta’s Southwestern Forests. Citizens and associations from communities throughout southwestern Alberta have joined together to document serious concerns with current industrial-scale logging practices, and present an alternative vision for the management of Alberta's southwestern forests.
What? News Conference
Launch of new Southwest Forests report
When? Tuesday October 25, 2011
10:00 – 10:45 a.m.
Where? AWA office, 455 – 12th Street NW, Calgary
Who? Alberta Wilderness Association
Bragg Creek Environmental Coalition
Castle Crown Wilderness Coalition
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Ghost Watershed Alliance Society
Stop Castle Logging
Beaver Mines Store
Citizens and associations from communities throughout southwestern Alberta have joined together to document serious concerns with current industrial-scale logging practices, and present an alternative vision for the management of Alberta's southwestern forests. A new report, Sustainable Forests, Sustainable Communities: The Future of Alberta’s Southwestern Forests, contains a series of recommendations for a new model of forest management in Alberta, based on ecosystems, guided by independent scientific expertise and augmented by local community participation and benefit.
Signatories to the new report include:
Alberta Wilderness Association
Beaver Mines store
Bert Riggall Environmental Foundation
Bow Valley Naturalists
Bragg Creek Environmental Coalition
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Castle Crown Wilderness Coalition
Crowsnest Conservation Society
Full Circle Adventures
Ghost Watershed Alliance Society
Livingstone Landowners Group
Southern Alberta Group for the Environment
Stop the Castle Logging Group
Trail of the Great Bear
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Representatives of a number of these groups will be present to discuss their perspectives and recommendations for future forest management in southwest Alberta.
For more information:
Nigel Douglas, Conservation Specialist, Alberta Wilderness Association. (403) 283-2025
Ralph Cartar, Bragg Creek Environmental Coalition. (403) 949-3307
Carolyn Aspeslet, Castle Crown Wilderness Coalition. (403) 627-5059
Marina Krainer, Ghost Watershed Alliance Society. (403) 604-2601
David McIntyre, Livingstone Landowners Group. (403) 564-4289
Sarah Pasemko, Senior Conservation Planner, CPAWS‐Southern Alberta. (403) 232-6686
Peter Sherrington, Stop Castle Logging. (403) 627-3522
