AWA hosts events of all types throughout the year and throughout the province.

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June 22 10 a.m. Highwood River, Kananaskis Country Difficulty: Easy Distance: 5-7 km Grab your sketchbook and join artist/author Carolyn Fisher and AWA conservation specialist Devon Earl to hike, draw, and document the Upper Highwood area, where West Fraser (formerly Spray Lake Sawmills) plans to clearcut 1,100 ha of mature forests. Although Albertans have fought to preserve their natural spaces, unsustainable logging occurs throughout the Eastern

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July 6, 9 a.m. Rosebud, Alberta 5-6 km Difficulty: Easy The Rosebud River Valley is an ecological marvel. Come experience it for yourself. The valley is in an area of Alberta subject to intense agriculture and oil and gas development. Despite those cumulative impacts, the valley, and the Rosebud River itself, maintain a level of biodiversity unparalleled in Southern Alberta. A Racetrack is proposed for lands

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Time: July 12, 2024, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Location: AWA Office: 455 – 12 St. NW Calgary, AB T2N 1Y9 Price: By Donation Come check out our historic office space and have a bite to eat! We're hosting a barbeque at our as part of Historic Places Days and the annual 12^th Street block party event. Our office

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July 20, 11 a.m. McKinnon Flats Difficulty: Easy Join Justine Doll and Kay Fleming for an afternoon adventure discovering the native plants and pollinators at McKinnon Flats. Contribute to a citizen science project in the area, learn about the pollinators and plants that live there and connect with folk who are passionate about nature! This adventure will be fun for all ages. We will

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Join Alberta Wilderness Association’s new quarterly book club! This quarter’s read: The Reality Bubble: How Science Reveals the Hidden Truths that Shape Our World By Ziya Tong. 

Discussion Meeting: July 23, 2024

Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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August 3, 2024, 1 p.m. Downtown and Inner-City Calgary Difficulty: Easy This half day urban field trip invites participants to discover the huge variety of extraordinary, fossilized creatures in the walls of some of the buildings in and around downtown Calgary. These fossilized creatures are examples of some of the earliest forms of life and are found in 450 million-years-old rocks quarried from

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August 18 South Ghost with Heinz Unger Difficulty: Intermediate to Hard (due to distance) This is a full day hike into a more remote area of the Ghost watershed; it is rarely visited except by outfitters and sheep hunters. It is located along the middle section of the South Ghost River, just where the valley starts to narrow. We will pass the old Hussey’s

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