Events

Join us at the new Elements Outfitters store location in Edmonton South Common on June 5th at 6:00PM for a screening of Dry Horizons followed by an activism workshop! All ticket and drink sales will be donated to CPAWS.

About the Film

The Eastern Slopes are the home of our headwaters, and the drinking water of more than 2 million Albertans. Dry Horizons explores the threats posed to them, and our regional water quality and quantity, by overuse and abuse, industrial resource extraction — including coal and forestry — and the failures of current government policy.

Produced by CPAWS Southern Alberta, the Pekisko Group, and Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and directed by Ryan HK, this compelling original film will educate and inspire Albertans of all backgrounds to take action to protect this vital place now and into the future.

CPAWS Northern Alberta is excited to host a fundraising concert in Edmonton, Alberta to raise funds for its fight against coal in the Eastern Slopes. The event is led by CPAWS members and will be hosted at the Hazeldean Community Hall ( 9630 66 Ave NW) from 7 – 9 PM Friday, June 13. This is a celebration and chance to gather, featuring local singer-songwriters and folk musicians Carla Jayne, Franceso Rizzuto and Sam Steffen.

Regular Admission Tickets are $40. Ticket proceeds cover the cost of putting on the event. Please consider donating to the CPAWS Northern Alberta chapter to support our work. Reach out to [email protected] for any inquiries.

A Future for Alberta’s Mountain Caribou

What the Upper Smoky Subregional Plan means for the at-risk species

Join CPAWS Northern Alberta’s Tara Russell, Program Director, and Kirby Smith — a retired Wildlife Biologist and Conservation Affairs Committee Member with the Alberta Chapter of the Wildlife Society — for a special webinar focused on the impacts of a proposed timber harvest on southern mountain caribou in West Central Alberta.

The webinar will discuss an alarming new report authored by the Alberta Wilderness Association, CPAWS Northern Alberta, and the Alberta Chapter of the Wildlife Society which investigates the impacts of proposed timber harvest in the draft Upper Smoky Subregional Plan on southern mountain caribou.

Spoiler alert: As it stands, the draft Upper Smoky Sub-regional Plan would eliminate the possibility of recovering the two caribou populations and risk their extirpation.