Environment committee  It's not particularly my field, but I do have some thoughts on it, not specifially with regard to a national conservation program, but just general comments. One comment is that as a society we need to make sure we talk directly to any issue. I'm thinking of some of the so-call

Environment committee  Well, we all do it with our limited resources. We try to address that education process. Something we would need provincial governments to do—because education is very jurisdictional—is to get examples of that kind of stewardship into their readers and school programs, so it woul

Environment committee  If I could also mention, in agriculture and especially in a grass-based agricultural production system, we can have our cake and eat it too. We can have the financial returns, and if done properly, we can enhance the ecosystem, the conservation, and the biodiversity of that same

Environment committee  The prairie grasses or native grasslands evolved with major grazers. They co-evolved and one relies on the other. A major ruminant, which most grazers are—that is, bison, cattle, and sheep—are effectively nutrient cyclers. They take grass, which is non-usable to a lot of the othe

Environment committee  Thank you. My name is Lynn Grant. My family and I ranch in southwest Saskatchewan, near Val Marie. I want to thank you for the invitation to speak on behalf of Canada's 83,000 beef producers in regard to your conservation plan. As chair of the environment committee of our associ