Environment committee  Definitely. Thank you. I think we do have a role to play. It's been difficult to do it. As Lorne mentioned, relationship-building and trust are key. Experiential knowledge exists with us, as the land managers. Some of us may not have a degree from a university, but I have a mast

Environment committee  Conservation easements can work in certain situations and may be the right tool for some people who are in need of a cash infusion to maintain their operation. The difficulty some of us have with conservation easements, in particular, the Nature Conservancy, is that these conse

Environment committee  Certainly. Many of these species, including the burrowing owl, the Richardson's ground squirrel, or the common pest we call a gopher, prefer grazed-off land so they can see predators coming—issues like that. They certainly don't survive in ungrazed conditions where the grass is t

Environment committee  Good morning, everyone. Thanks for the opportunity to appear before you today. First, to give you a little background about me, I'm a fourth generation rancher from the foothills of southern Alberta. My boys are the fifth generation pursuing agriculture in Alberta. This is a bi