Introducing the Wild Alberta Interactive Map
September 1, 2019
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As a provincial organization, AWA works throughout Alberta to create awareness of and action for wilderness, wildlife, and wild waters – but where exactly is “Wild Alberta”? Since AWA’s birth in 1965, we have endeavoured to answer that question. We began with kitchen-table conversations and simple bubbles drawn on paper maps. Thanks to advancements in GIS and tremendous help from experts and volunteers, we have refined our map into an online public resource that helps define where “Wild Alberta” is. We’re excited to introduce our Wild Alberta Interactive Map!
The map is our newest resource to help researchers, explorers, colleagues, students, authors, politicians and engaged Albertans learn about our natural home. It identifies Alberta’s six distinct Natural Regions, currently protected landscapes, and the priority areas AWA calls our Areas of Concern.
Our Areas of Concern are the landscapes we believe have important wilderness values: high biodiversity, specific/unique landscape features, and vital wildlife habitat. We hope, and strive to ensure, that these landscapes will be as pristine, breathtaking, and intact 100 years from now as they are today.
Please take a few moments to check out the map and learn a little about our Wild
Alberta. Also, we would love to hear from you about your own favourite wild space and what it means to you. Visit the map at
www.albertawilderness.ca/wild-alberta
Happy navigating!
– Your Alberta Wilderness Association Team
