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David Mayhooddmayhood@ecoevo.social
2026-01-19

Watershed threats from resource development just go on and on. Timberwolf Wilderness Society has an answer for semi-arid southern Alberta: a law to protect the Rocky Mountain East Slopes from yet more damage, including a demand to recover them. So southern Albertans can continue to live there.

timberwolfwildernesssociety.ca

#Watershed #Conservation #Legislation #EastSlopes #Logging #Mining #Oil&Gas

David Mayhooddmayhood@ecoevo.social
2024-03-19

We posted this technical report recently.

Watershed assessments for upper Highwood-Loomis Creek proposed logging 2023-2025.

dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25425889

#watershed #logging #Alberta #EastSlopes #SpeciesAtRiskAct #BullTrout #WestslopeCutthroatTrout #Habitat #Streamflow #Clearcut #Hydrology

Colour map showing lower Loomis Creek watershed running E-W, & part of the mainstem upper Highwood River running NW-SE, southern Alberta's East Slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Of the 36 small sub-watersheds shown in black outline, 75% (pale & dark red) were ranked as at high to highest risk of peak flow & sediment delivery increases resulting from planned clearcut logging & its accompanying roads. These are distributed mostly along the north side of Loomis & along the west side of the Highwood River. A large watershed (Bishop Creek) & several other sub-watersheds (shown in yellow, for moderate risk) are distributed south of Loomis Creek and ddraining to it, along with 4 others; while one yellow one drains to Loomis from the north, & 2 more yellow sub-watersheds drain to the Highwood mainstem at the north and southeast extremes of the map. Only 1 sub-watershed to be logged is ranked as at low risk (green), draining the Highwood River from the east, mid-map.

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