February-March Issue of Prairie Peaks News The February-March issue of Prairie Peaks News is on its way to our subscribers. Not a subscriber yet? Subscribe now! In this issue: Critics Fear Disneyfication of B.C. Wilderness Capitalist with a Soft Spot for Wildlife Plight of the Pintail Duck Lois Hole Kept Giving Until the Very End Compton Petroleum Hearing Update Daily Insights Prairie Peaks News correspondent Laura Churchill Jolles ...

Urban Versus Rural: Ranchers Find Out That Urban Support Only Goes So Far lone cow photo by Bill Anderson Singed by a firestorm of opposition from local community groups and a retiring alderman, Ranchers Beef may move the proposed northeast Calgary slaughterhouse just across the road. more Not so far afield: Wreck-reation in K Country john kolk photo courtesy of John Kolk I grew up ...

Water Wars: Communities Clash Along the St. Mary and Milk Rivers - by Christie McLaren Whisky's for drinking. Water's for fighting over. -popularly attributed to Mark Twain Nowhere is this witty observation more fitting than on the dry, short-grass prairie where the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the state of Montana meet. Here the liquid gold isn't oil - it's the water of the ...

Residents Sour on Gas Well Expansion sour gas photo courtesy of Chris Biegler Three years ago, Adrienne Beattie and Shane Bill bought their first home in a suburban Calgary neighborhood, choosing the new development in the southeast corner of the city for its affordability, the green space, and blooming sense of community. more Yellowstone to Yukon: Resurrecting North America's Eden yellowstone to ...

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Critics Fear Disneyfication of B.C. Wilderness photo courtesy of Y2Y They call it: Super. Natural. B.C. But is the wilderness itself an endangered species? Critics fear the familiar image of a pristine mountain wilderness with clear rushing rivers, majestic wild critters and spectacular, unsullied snow slopes that British Columbia beams to the world may soon exist only on your TV screen. Plight of the ...

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Interior B.C. Getting to Know Canadian Ice Artists from as far away as Belgium, Italy and Russia recently gathered in Fort St. John, B.C., as the city played host to the B.C. Professional Ice Carving Championships. “The ice, it’s much, much harder here,” Miguel Ringoet, a sculptor from Belgium, told the Peace Country Sun. According to Ringoet, sculpting in ice has balance. “You can ...