08/22/2021
Pls help everyone do your part
As promised yesterday, the news today is terrible regarding Alberta's threatened caribou, and we NEED your help. In particular, the A La Peche herd, which summers in the protected environs of Jasper National Park and Willmore Wilderness Area, finds its habitat under fire as news broke today of 54 cutblocks planned immediately (logging is scheduled to begin in early September) in critical winter caribou habitat outside the parks.
So what can you do? First, please share this, RT it, put it in your Stories, get it out there on social as much as possible. Second, visit https://albertawilderness.ca/worst-place-to-clearcut-in-ab-caribou-wolves-trout/ (or go to albertawilderness.ca and click on the main story on the home page) for the full details and how you can take action, particularly if you're from Alberta.
In short, this is what will REALLY help: write Alberta Agriculture and Forestry Minister Devin Dreeshen ([email protected]) and Alberta Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon ([email protected]) to request that:
- Alberta halt imminent clearcuts by West Fraser Hinton that will remove almost all remaining mature forest for threatened caribou and endangered Athabasca rainbow trout in the Moon Creek area from Hwy 40 to the Willmore Wilderness Area;
- Alberta defer other clearcuts in the six percent of West Fraser Hinton’s tenure that overlaps caribou range, to protect caribou survival options; and
- Alberta finalizes an enforceable land use plan for A La Peche and adjacent Little Smoky caribou ranges that complies with the Species at Risk Act before resuming clearcuts in this part of West Fraser Hinton’s tenure.
And please copy federal ECCC Minister Jonathan Wilkinson ([email protected]) and AWA’s ([email protected]).
Thanks everyone, this is an extremely urgent conservation issue given that they have already started putting in bridges and road-building, so please do what you can to help.
And let me know what you think about all of this in the Comments.
- John
