Stewardship at Plateau Mountain: AWA makes a difference
December 1, 2015
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Wild Lands Advocate article from December 2015 by Chris Saunders, AWA Board Member.
Many readers will be familiar with Plateau Mountain, a prominent landmark in south western Alberta between the Livingstone Range to the west and the prairie to the east. It is, as the name implies, a genuine plateau about eight kilometres long and one to two kilometres wide. Technically it qualifies as a nunatuk, an area of high land that stood above the ice sheet during the last ice age. Its broad wind-swept summit hosts a remarkable variety of wildflowers and geological features. It provides important grazing for a number of wildlife species, particularly in the winter. To the visitor the plateau can feel like arctic tundra during inclement weather, quite different to the alpine and subalpine to the west. Plateau Mountain was declared an Ecological Reserve in 1991. It is a unique place.
Volunteers cleaning up industrial refuse on Plateau Mountain. PHOTO: © C. OLSON
To read the full article, click here: Stewardship at Plateau Mountain AWA makes a difference (Dec 2015 WLA)
