Update: South Saskatchewan Regional Plan

Wild Lands Advocate article, October 2014, by Brittany Verbeek. The final version of the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan (SSRP) was an improvement over the previous draft, but did not live up to expectations in some ways. Three new Wildland Provincial Parks will be seen thanks to the plan in addition to promises of watershed and headwaters protection, with forest management being the highest priority. Unfortunately, the SSRP is rife with ambiguous language, lacks key conservation pieces, and fails to protect the more biodiverse regions of the Castle region in the newly-designated Castle Wildlands Provincial Park.