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Crownest Headwaters is a citizen's group dedicated to the protection and restoration of the Crowsnest River watershed.

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Harley Bastien’s Daughter Carly Asks Your Help in Creating a Riverside Memorial to her Dad

This is a legitimate and worthy campaign to honour the Piikani Nation’s greatest contemporary conservationist. We urge you to donate.

Why We Need to Know about Selenium in Fish

“To do nothing is a flagrant disregard for human and ecosystem health, and a failure of governance.”

Oldman River Food and Sport Fisheries are Being Poisoned by Crowsnest Coal Mine Selenium

Lab analysis shows fish downstream of Oldman Reservoir suffer selenium toxicity exceeding the Alberta threshold for human consumption

Piikani Pow Wow 2026

Many hundreds of members of the Blackfoot Confederacy converged on the annual Piikani Nation Pow Wow August 14-16 for a celebration of cultural heritage.

An Intimate Peek at the Osprey Family nesting at Lundbreck Falls, Alberta

A few metres east of the bridge at Lundbreck Falls, there is a small pullover which provides a clear view of an Osprey nest occupied by both parents and one chick.

Lorne Fitch on point

Twenty Reasons for Conservation Concerns

Join your fellow Albertans in Ensuring a clean water future. Invest in Trevor's Trust.

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The good fortune of what we have....

and don't intend to lose.

Lorne Fitch receives the Valerius Geist Award 2026

For our many readers who appreciate the writings, opinions, and long standing efforts of Lorne Fitch in environmental advocacy, both in his working career and private life, you will find his receiving of this prestigious award very well deserved.

The manipulation of the Water Not Coal petition

Andrew Nikiforuk picks apart the process executed by Danielle Smith and Elections Alberta to ensure a “failed” effort by Corb Lund and other concerned Albertans.

A Mine We Like

Eight millenia of sustainable chert extraction atop the Livingstone Range

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Water Not Coal Files Judicial Review Challenging Elections Alberta Decision

Rejection of petition "unreasonable" and "flawed" argues challenge in Alberta Court of King's Bench

Brilliant Interactive Time-Series Map of Human Disturbance in the Crowsnest Watershed

ArcGIS Storymap created by Acadia University graduate student Deanne Watts in collaboration with Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Crowsnest Pass Conservation Society, and Esri Inc.