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Connect and Protect, to Preserve Wildlife
Crowsnest Conservation Society
Coleman, AB
Nov 29
Connections: Learning from the Land
Ellis Bird Farm Ltd.
Lacombe, AB
Sep 9, 10
Conservation Coordinator – Seasonal
Legacy Land Trust Society
Employment Opportunities
Olds, Alberta
Mar 11
Conservation Land Stewards
Edmonton and Area Land Trust
Volunteer Opportunities
Info Session: Mar 13, 12pm
Deadline: Apr 5
Conservation Trade-offs
BY RICHARD SCHNEIDER
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Situations where conservation objectives are themselves in conflict are challenging for conservationists to grapple with and lead to divisions within the conservation community.
Contributors To Conflict And Coexistence With Urban Coyotes
Recorded Presentation
Speaker: COLLEEN CASSADY ST. CLAIR
Host: Nature Alberta
Coulee Cleanup
Helen Schuler Nature Centre
Apr 22 – May 31
Launch Event: Apr 20
Lethbridge, AB
Coulee Cleanup, Shoreline Cleanup, and Invasive Weed Pulls
Volunteer recruitment through The Helen Schuler Nature Centre in Lethbridge
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Counting Winter Bugs with John Acorn
Recorded Presentation
Speaker: JOHN ACORN
Host: Nature Alberta
Coyotes, Prey, and Birdseed Project
The Edmonton Urban Coyote Project
University of Alberta
Volunteer Opportunities
Creek Watch Volunteers
Weaselhead/Glenmore Park Preservation Society
Volunteer Opportunity
Weaselhead
June – October
Crooked Creek Conservation Society of Athabasca – Conservation Coordinator
Crooked Creek Conservation Society of Athabasca
Employment Opportunity
May 15
Crowsnest Conservation Society – Employment Opportunity
Crowsnest Conservation Society
Immediately hiring
Crowsnest Pass, AB
D & D Land Reclamation Style: Become an Earth Doctor
Future Energy Systems
Wed, Sept 21 from 5 – 6 pm
Dancing Without a Stage – The State of the Greater Sage-Grouse
BY TIMOTHY SHAPKA
As of 2020, the Alberta population of greater sage-grouse was estimated to be 72 individuals — down from the thousands that were present when we started keeping track in 1968. Timothy Shapka reviews the causes of the decline and what is being done to recover the species.
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Deadly Fungus Adds to Bat Conservation Concerns
BY CORY OLSON
While bats have a remarkable ability to manage energy reserves, only a few can withstand the devastating impacts of white-nose syndrome (WNS), a disease caused by a fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, that grows on bats during hibernation, which will lead to more frequent arousals during the winter, depletion of energy stores, and eventual starvation.
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Deadly Highway: Road and Rail Fatalities are Decimating Jasper Park’s Wildlife
BY DICK DEKKER
Protected from hunting year-round, Jasper’s elk have lost their fear of humans, and tend to concentrate along highways and in the townsite. There are two main reasons for this: they are attracted by grassy clearings, and there are fewer wolves here than in the backcountry. However, the elk’s anti-predator strategy of staying near human habituation increases the risk of colliding with vehicles and trains.
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Death by “Data Deficient”: The Disappearance of Wolverines in Alberta’s Eastern Slopes
BY GILLIAN CHOW-FRASER
Olaus Murie once wrote, “I wonder if there is another inhabitant of northern wilderness that so excites the imagination.”1 The species he was referring to? None other than the wolverine.
More than 60 years later, the same thought ran through my mind as I tracked through the foothills of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains. Would this be the day? Would I be able to catch even a brief glimpse of a wolverine’s bushy tail in the distance?
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Delta Dawn with the Wolves of Wood Buffalo National Park
BY ERIN MCCLOSKEY
Wood Buffalo National Park was established in 1922 to protect what remained of Canada’s wood bison. Today, exactly 100 years later, the park supports a population of approximately 3,000 bison, which coexist alongside their natural predator, the wolf. The core range of the park is quite possibly the only place where bison are wolves’ primary prey.
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Designing a Bird-Friendly Yard
Edmonton Nature Club
Recording Now Available
Diminished Chorus: The Decline of Grassland Birds
BY NANCY MAHONY
Few people are lucky enough to experience the dawn chorus on Alberta’s native grasslands — a bewildering concert of ringing trills, melodious gurgles, and jumbled songs. I’ve had the good fortune to do so on many May and June mornings, as a biologist researching grassland songbirds at one of Canada’s largest remaining native prairies, the Suffield National Wildlife Area near Medicine Hat.
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Do You “Do Bugs”?
BY JOHN ACORN
Bug appreciation is on the rise. Macro photography is easier than ever before, and there are countless places online where you can submit arthropod images for identification or appreciation by others.
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Does Going Green Put Wildlife in the Red?
BY LORNE FITCH
There is no question we need to transition from fossil fuels to alternate energy sources. It’s hard to find a species in Alberta not affected by climate change. But we shouldn’t be blind to the issues renewable energy solutions can cause to wildlife and their habitats.
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