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Cheviot Mine Decision Appealed

April 1, 2004

Wild Lands Advocate article, April 2004, by Shirley Bray.

The proposed mine, which would be located on the site of the abandoned coal-mining community of Mountain Park, next to Jasper National Park, is home to numerous species of rare and threatened plants and animals and is also prime grizzly habitat.

 
Read the article: 200404_AR_CD.pdf

When citizens and their representatives in government fail to place a high value on wilderness as a resource in itself, then its disappearance – especially in reasonably accessible locations – is swift and certain.
- Bruce M. Litteljohn and Douglas H. Pimlott, “Why Wilderness?”, 1971
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