Alberta
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Alberta suspends grizzly hunt for the fourth year pending the results of a five year study. The Canadian Press.
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Alberta govt. suspends wolf-poisoning program. Cathy Ellis, Canwest News Service
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Biologists push for action on grizzly plan. Bear population continues in decline despite 2002 warning in report. Darcy Henton, The Edmonton Journal. Perhaps only 500 grizzlies are left in this vast province, fewer than the Bob Marshall/Glacier National Park grizzly recovery area* just to the south of Alberta. _____ *Officially named the Northern Continental Divide…
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Yes it produces oil, but also more negative externalities (environmental and other damage) than any other on-going project on the planet, according to an Canadian environmental group. Environmentalists’ report to call for Ottawa to act on oil sands. By Bill Curry. The Globe and Mail View. Toxic Alberta. Part of a 15 part series.
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Alberta protesters furious over wolf kill. By Jim Farrell. Edmonton Journal. The government wants to kill wolves to protect caribou, but the caribou have been disrupted by all the natural gas development and exploration in the Rocky Mountain foothills.