Launched in September 2018 as a partnership between ALUS Canada and Wheatland County, ALUS Wheatland is the 11th ALUS community in Alberta and the 24th in Canada.
Wheatland County lies in the mixed grassland and dark brown soil region of southern Alberta. It is a diverse agricultural community of more than 8,000 residents, including portions of 19 Hutterian Brethren Colonies, all living on a 4,539 square-kilometre territory divided by the Red Deer River and the Bow River, fed by the Serviceberry Creek, Rosebud River and Crowfoot Creek watersheds.
In all ALUS communities, ALUS works closely with landowners to develop and support projects that are best suited to local needs and priorities. The ALUS Wheatland program aims to help address important environmental issues in this part of Alberta, namely riparian health and the loss of wetlands and native grasslands. The region’s most sensitive ecological features also include hard alkaline and saline soils, the Wintering Hills, native grasslands and numerous pothole prairie wetlands.
ALUS Wheatland’s Program Coordinators work with farmers and ranchers to help establish these projects, while participants receive annual, per-acre payments for the management and maintenance of these projects on their land.
Through their ALUS projects, ALUS Wheatland participants will help to produce cleaner water, cleaner air and more biodiversity, including pollinator habitat, for the benefit of everyone in the community.
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Intact Announces Support for ALUS
PRESS RELEASE | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Montreal, April 25, 2019 – ALUS Canada thanks Intact for nearly $250,000 to fund ALUS projects in three provinces. ALUS Canada is delighted to receive a generous donation of $248,850 in new funding from the Intact Foundation, in...
ALUS Canada and The W. Garfield Weston Foundation present Innovation Awards for ecosystem services
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tillsonburg, June 6, 2018/CNW/—ALUS Canada and The W. Garfield Weston Foundation present Innovation Awards for ecosystem services. ALUS Canada and The W. Garfield Weston Foundation today presented two Innovation Awards, each worth...
ALUS Wheatland Coordinator
Jason Wilson
PAC Chair, Council Representative
Scott Klassen
PAC member, Council Representative
Barry Van Laar
PAC member, Agricultural Service Board Member at Large
Brittany Walker
PAC member, Agricultural Service Board Member at Large
Derek Hallgrimson
PAC member, DU Conservation Programs Specialist
Jason Wilson
PAC Chair, Council Representative
Scott Klassen
PAC member, Council Representative
Barry Van Laar
PAC member, Agricultural Service Board Member at Large
Brittany Walker
PAC member, Agricultural Service Board Member at Large
Derek Hallgrimson
PAC member, DU Conservation Programs Specialist
Sonja Bloom
PAC member, Environmental & Communications Coordinator, Foothills Forage & Grazing Association