Wider Horizons

Lethbridge College President and CEO Dr. Paula Burns joined staff, alumni and the Alberta Conservation Association under blue prairie skies in May to plant 250 shrubs, the first of more than 2,500 to be planted just outside Vauxhall as part of an innovative partnership that restores a former farmer’s field into a habitat that both wildlife and people can enjoy.

The re-wilding project undertaken by the college and MBNA Canada celebrates the 50th anniversary of the college’s Conservation Enforcement and Renewable Resource Management programs. ACA biologist Tyler Johns (Renewable Resource Management 1999) says the chosen site was a former hayfield the ACA purchased from a local farmer who wanted it restored to a natural state.

Wider Horizons
Photo by Rob Olson
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