[When Did The Crow And Magpie's Become Alberta's Provincial Bird]

Other carrion-eating species benefitting from our increasing propensity to generate garbage and road kill: the turkey vulture. I saw this one on a backroad near Springbank two weeks ago. Apparently they are moving northward as we pave more of our gravel backroads in western Canada (pavement = increased road kill).

 

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[Training Dog To Be Around Water?!?]

Nice PFD DFD

[Shannon Phillips: Moving Forward To Protect Southern Alberta's Headwaters]

I've actually heard a lot of support for this from the OHV community. Call it an "Environmental Impact Fee" or something. Would be an easy revenue generator and would be the best shot we'd have at a user pay structure for trail maintenance.

Well, if you call it an "Environmental Impact Fee", some users will take that as a license to Impact the Environment: "I pay my fee, so it's OK to keep on doing what I do". Maybe take a portion of the fee to beef up enforcement.

[Going South To Winter Fish?]

Yakima River fishes well in early to mid-March - a 3-4 week skwala hatch and decent sized rainbows feeding on them. Nearby wine country has some appeal, too.