ROCKY VIEW COUNTY, ALBERTA, CANADA — Justin Thompson and Matt Kumlin walk up a hill toward a ridge in the Alberta foothills as a border collie and…
At the top of the ridge, the snow-capped Rocky Mountains are visible to the west. Calgary’s downtown is about 40 kilometres to the east.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
It is one of three new projects by the Southern Alberta Land Trust Society, a rancher-led conservation organization, that will protect about 27-square kilometres of land in the area. That’s similar in size to two-and-a-half Nose Hill Parks in Calgary or 17 High Parks in Toronto.Article content “Our watersheds upstream of the cities have continued to have more and more development — more houses, more roads, more industrial development — and, with those developments, the ability of the landscape to store and filter water has diminished.”
In addition to protecting water flowing into Calgary and Lethbridge, Alta., Thompson said the land can also support recreation and tourism as well as provide flood and drought mitigation for those cities. Thompson said he’s also hoping to work more closely with officials from the City of Calgary, which adopted a source water protection policy in 2020.
“Much of the Bow and Elbow River watersheds that supply Calgary’s drinking water remain relatively pristine,” it says. “Protecting our drinking water at its source is critical to ensure we maintain clean, safe, reliable drinking water to our customers and other downstream communities that also depend on the rivers.”Article content
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