Environment committee  By and large, the ranching industry is intergenerational. If we were to manage things on a one-year, five-year, or ten-year cycle we would quickly go broke, because we would have no water or grass left. In order for ranching to be profitable, you're looking out 50 or 100 years.

Environment committee  We're as—

Environment committee  I was just going to say that we're as much a part of the environment as the deer, the grizzly bears, and the sage grouse. We're all in one place.

Environment committee  There was a study done west of Calgary on riparian area management and what the actual benefit was to the city of Calgary's water supply. This was monetized to the point that this fellow actually came up with a dollar figure that it would cost each resident of the city of Calgary

Environment committee  If we got into the ecosystem services part, the first thing you have to have is a market. You can't sell something without a market. The federal government would be, in our opinion, the facilitator of the market, for whatever it will be, whether it be clean water, or clean air, o

Environment committee  Definitely. They are the people there.

Environment committee  Yes, that's our focus. For anything to succeed it has to be incentive-based, not regulation-based.

Environment committee  Christoph Weder was Alberta's nomination, I guess you'd call it. I'm not sure what you want to know. He's taken an area in northern Alberta, and as with all of them, our qualifications are not necessarily what's happening now but the improvement that's happened over a course of y

Environment committee  We'd be open to it, and at least in the native grassland areas, the wetlands are still there. Nothing has really changed.

Environment committee  Can I give that to Fawn?

Environment committee  Also, I think it was Mr. Farwell who brought up managing for an ecosystem rather than a species, and I think that's very important.

Environment committee  This may not be CCA policy, but being in Ottawa and being in Edmonton a few times, I don't understand how the Department of the Environment can come up with environmental solutions without consulting the departments of agriculture. There doesn't seem to be a cross communication t

Environment committee  Madam Chair and committee members, my name is Bob Lowe. My family and I farm in Alberta near the town of Nanton. Beside me is Fawn Jackson, the environmental manager for the Canadian Cattlemen's Association. Thank you for the invitation to speak on behalf of Canada's beef produc