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The Little Smoky Caribou Herd may be lost forever.

The herd lives in the Rocky Mountain Foothills near Hinton, AB, and is in desperate need of habitat protection.

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Dear Hon. Knight,

I care about Alberta's remaining woodland caribou, the "canaries in the coalmine" for healthy Boreal forests. Industry and government have already assessed that the Alberta Foothills caribou herds don't have enough habitat left to maintain their populations, due to logging and fragmentation caused by industrial use.   Still, forestry companies continue to plan logging in the small portion of high quality caribou habitat remaining, with the approval of government.

Over 100 wolves have been killed in the last two years in the area in a misguided attempt to help some of the herds survive, but no caribou habitat has been protected from logging.  This approach will not work. It is contrary to long term caribou recovery and the intent of the Species at Risk Act to conserve habitat.

Less than 2% of the Alberta Foothills are in areas protected from logging. The best remaining candidate sites for protection include caribou range.  The recovery plan for caribou in the foothills, underway right now, provides a great opportunity to meet Alberta's commitments to representative protected areas and to maintain habitat for caribou.

Please give direction to the Alberta Caribou Committee to include new protected areas in the planning for caribou recovery in the Foothills of Alberta.

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The Little Smoky Caribou Herd may be lost forever.

Let's help them out!