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Space — A Frontier No Longer?

December 7, 2021

Wild Lands Advocate article by: Lorne Fitch, P. Biol.

Click here for a pdf version of the article.

Outer Space may still be a frontier, but the space we call wilderness, a place to recreate in Alberta’s Eastern Slopes is getting increasingly crowded. The refrain I hear, from people who remember the Eastern Slopes from a previous era echoes Yogi Berra’s enigmatic statement that “no one goes there, it’s too crowded.” I know I’m reluctant to visit there based on my memories of a place much quieter, with less traffic and fewer people.

We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
- Wallace Stegner
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