Western Sky Land Trust

We need your immediate help to conserve a pristine local landscape that surrounds the best trout habitat in the world!

The Western Sky Land Trust urgently needs your help to conserve a parcel of threatened Bow River landscape just east of Calgary. Our protection of this land will contribute positively to the health of our local watershed.

As a community leader, please consider how you can help us conserve this environmentally significant 59-acre landscape located amongst the best trout habitat in the world, just east of Calgary. Your support will conserve a rare landscape, and enable us to pursue related projects that will benefit our entire community.

If we don’t act now, one of the last remaining pieces of our local natural heritage will be lost forever. Help us now to conserve it in perpetuity for the benefit of wildlife, fishers, outdoor enthusiasts and future generations of Albertans.

About Wheatland #1

Wheatland #1 borders what many Alberta fly fishers know as one of the best stretches of trout habitat in the world. This 59-acre parcel abuts Wyndham-Carseland Provincial Park, about 50km southeast of Calgary.

  • The land is located on a stretch of the Bow River that is deemed an Environmentally Significant Area of International Importance by Environment Canada. It encompasses four landscapes: pasture/cultivated; cliffs/bluffs with native vegetation; riparian floodplains; Bow River and associated side-channels (aquatic habitats).
  • Extremely high biodiversity.
  • Nesting songbird habitat, plus breeding areas for belted kingfishers, great blue herons and cormorants.
  • Breeding, spring and fall migration habitat for many waterfowl species.
  • Bow River Valley riparian areas provide movement corridors, feeding, rearing and seasonal use habitats for wildlife.
  • Sport fish include rainbow and brown trout, mountain whitefish, walleye, pike.
  • Water access for fishers, photographers, birders and recreational paddlers is from Wyndham-Carseland Provincial Park, just a short paddle away.

Photo credit: Gary Kindrat

The owner of this land, well-known Calgary entrepreneur Mr. Jack Nodwell, is making it available to Western Sky. We have until early June to find a few major donors who are willing to help us acquire this pristine parcel.

About our Campaign

Western Sky needs your help to raise a minimum of $1 million in this campaign, 50 per cent of which will be used to support all the efforts to acquire Wheatland #1 and ensure the ongoing stewardship of this land. The remaining $500,000 will be directed to our additional conservation programs that are linked to Wheatland #1, as well as other prime watershed lands.

If we don’t act now, one of the last remaining pieces of our local natural heritage will be lost forever.

Visit our website at www.westernskylandtrust.ca
to learn more about Western Sky Land Trust.

•  About Western Sky

•  About Our Campaign

•  About Wheatland #1

•  View An On-Line Slideshow of this Landscape

•  Beyond Wheatland #1

•  Western Sky In the News

Beyond Wheatland #1

Wheatland #1 is our first in a series of steps toward conserving other vital lands in this watershed along the Bow River. We are pursuing a planned approach that will conserve landscapes both large and small.

We now have 25 land owners interested in conserving their land through Western Sky. This is accomplished by providing land owners with options such as donation, partial purchase or purchase of land, conservation easements, life estates, lease-back situations, to name a few. Western Sky has the relationships and tools for land conservation. We are now pursuing partnerships to enter into additional projects focusing on the Bow and other areas of our watershed.

Your donation will support the ongoing efforts of Western Sky to enable this project and many other land conservation initiatives we have planned.

Support
Western Sky now!

Please contact Tracy Tarves,
Executive Director of
Western Sky Land Trust,
at 403-974-0756 or at
tracyt@westernskylandtrust.ca

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About Western Sky Land Trust

The growth of our region has presented opportunities and challenges. While growth is inevitable, there are certain landscapes that are key for our communities and our sense of place. These same landscapes play an instrumental role in relation to our watershed on which we rely for the continued health of our community, ecosystem and economy. As these landscapes disappear, those that remain become ever-more valuable and demand action on the part of Albertans who share an appreciation of these irreplaceable natural assets.

Photo credit: Wade HawkinsYet, few local organizations exist who are dedicated to gathering and applying the resources of community leaders like you, people who understand the importance of conserving these last landscapes.

At the request of land owners and the general public, hundreds of Albertans came together in 2005 to create Western Sky. Western Sky has spent the last two years out in the community elevating the importance of the conservation of watershed lands (on individual, community, government and private sector basis) and connecting with land owners to understand if land conservation is of interest. We are now in a position to launch our first conservation project – Wheatland #1.

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