The Nature Conservancy of Canada's Fleming Ranch property in the Crowsnest Pass on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. Brent Calver/Nature Conservancy of Canada

By Chantal Wagner

Through the Crowsnest Pass

CP supports Jim Prentice Wildlife Corridor

Jan 9, 2020 | 4:21 PM

The Jim Prentice Wildlife Corridor received a half-million-dollar boost from Canadian Pacific (CP) this week.

The $500,000 will help conserve and steward lands named by the late premier.

The project launched in October 2018 with Nature Conservancy Canada (NCC) and has protected more than two-thirds of targeted lands within the corridor.

The corridor supports wildlife to commute freely, and at the same time, improve the safety of human traffic.

“Essentially assemble all the lands that will maintain a wildlife corridor north to south that will connect all the lands north of Crowsnest Pass, so up in the Kananaskis and Banff area with the lands south in the Castle area, Waterton, all the way down to Wyoming,” according to Bob Demulder Regional Vice-President of NCC.

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He says 2020 plans hopefully include the completion of all land acquisitions and conservation easement agreements in the corridor.

From there, NCC will transition to continued conversations with the provincial government’s transportation department about construction locations of wildlife overpasses and fencing.

In the Medicine Hat area, Demulder says Nature Conservancy Canada has a partnership with the Calgary Zoo on the reintroduction of the sage grouse to southern Alberta and Saskatchewan grasslands.