At the Calgary Folk Festival, on July 28 & 29, we gave out hundreds of tags, collected close to 1,000 signatures and talked to hundreds of people - and we had a great time baking in the hot sun and listening to wonderful music.
Doug Sephton and Julie Fraietta set up a booth at the 24 Hrs of Adrenalin in Canmore on July 7. We collected names on our petition, gave out hundreds of tags and explained how logging will affect water supply, recreational opportunities and wildlife.
Jasmine Zaba, aged 7-years, made this sign to let representatives of Sustainable Resource Development know that she wants Kananaskis to be made a park . She wore the sign at the SRD Open House on June 12.
One of four billboards on highway 22 near Bragg Creek that helped get our campaign going during June.
A boy takes a tag from the tag tree during the campaign launch at the Bragg Creek Centre, May 12, 2007.
One of our large tags hanging in a tree. Where did you put yours
Deadfall. These trees were blown down in November 2006 during a violent wind storm. Many were dead - killed by ants, some had their roots ripped out of the ground. There are thousands, probably tens of thousands throughout Kananaskis and Bragg Creek. We use the ones from our properties and those donated by others to make tags. Eventually the tags will rot and return to the soil, just as the blown down trees will, but, while they are hanging, they help raise awareness about this plan to cut down hundreds of thousands of live trees in an area that provides freshwater, recreation and a natural habitat for wildlife.
Audio Centre - music by Scott Diehl.
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Photos by Alvise Doglioni Majer taken in the McLead Creek area of the Elbow Valley in May 2007. Logging has been ongoing over the past 10 years. See a video
These photos were taken during 2006 in the Cataract Creek area at the southern end of Kananaskis. Logging is ongoing under the Spray Lakes Sawmills Forest Management Agreement.