Calgary & Lethbridge: A vast majority of residents living around the Castle Special Place favor creation of a Wildland Park there and oppose logging inside it, a new survey by The Praxis Group of Calgary shows. The Castle, technically called the Castle Special Management Area and one of the province's 81 designated Special Place protected areas, is located between Waterton Lakes National Park and the Crowsnest Pass, within Alberta's portion of the international Crown of the Continent ecosystem and geotourism area.
The area surveyed is the southern part of MLA Evan Berger's Livingston-Macleod constituency and statistically sampled almost half (48 per cent) of the constituency's residents. Berger is Parliamentary Assistant for Sustainable Resource Development, the government department under Minister Mel Knight, who approved the logging.
The area surveyed is the southern part of MLA Evan Berger's Livingston-Macleod constituency and statistically sampled almost half (48 per cent) of the constituency's residents. Berger is Parliamentary Assistant for Sustainable Resource Development, the government department under Minister Mel Knight, who approved the logging.