06/09/2026
Alberta just lost more than 15 square kilometres of native prairie today. Six sections of land that the municipality of Taber had previously promised to protect as grassland were just auctioned off for irrigated cropland. It breaks promises made by the municipality to protect these lands when they were transferred from the province and contravenes the municipality’s OWN bylaw 1845, the “Prairie Conservation Bylaw", which bars leaseholders from altering these landscapes. These lands are tax recovery lands, originally forfeited by early colonial settlers because they were unable to be farmed. We should not be repeating mistakes of the past. While these six sections are already lost, AWA is asking the MD of Taber to create MEANINGFUL protections for their remaining tax recovery lands, which are still intact grassland, one of the world's most endangered ecosystems. Read more at https://www.albertawilderness.ca/taber-destroys-grasslands-auctions-6-sections-for-irrigated-cropland/
