Wild Alberta at the Crossroads wins North American book award! (more)

Wild Alberta at the Crossroads traces the authors’ seven-year journey through Alberta’s mountains, foothills, grasslands, parkland, boreal forest and Canadian Shield.

      Their outstanding photography and inspiring stories encourage everyone to get out and enjoy its glorious wildlands and wildlife.

      But enjoying nature is no longer enough. Alberta citizens are the owners and custodians of a landscape and wildlife heritage facing unprecedented pressures from extractive industry, urban sprawl, overconsumption, and unsustainable growth. It is urgent that we pause, rethink our priorities, and develop a vision and plan for an ecologically sustainable future.

      This book shows what is at stake, the major environ-mental issues, and how, together, we can and must become actively involved in good solutions. How vigorously we take up this challenge and put Alberta’s house in order will determine our legacy – and our children’s future.

See the book.

Book Reviews

“This inspirational title belongs in all Alberta schools....  [Indeed,] this is an important title for all Albertans.”

    –  Diane Wilson, Resource         Reviewer
        Calgary Board of Education

“Albertans ... will find [this book] speaks to their hearts and calls for a new commitment to better stewardship of this extraordinary piece of Creation.”

     – Elizabeth May, Leader,
        Green Party of Canada

“The Whites’ powerful pictures and compelling narrative accomplish the difficult, but urgent, task of taking the debate about Alberta’s future out of the realm of political rhetoric and making it real and tangible.”

     – Ricardo Acuña, Executive         Director,
        Parkland Institute, Edmonton

Media Coverage and Rating

Friday, 14 December 2007: Wild Alberta at the Crossroads is the subject of a half-page feature article by Emma Gilchrist in the Real Life Green Guide section (page C-14) of the Calgary Herald.

Thursday, 13 December 2007: Calgary Herald, Real Life section’s Outside page (C-5) ] ranks Wild Alberta at the Crossroads in the Top Ten Best Outdoors Books for 2007.

Thursday, 13 December 2007: The Red Deer Advocate has a thought-provoking column about the book. See their Current section, page C-1 (column 1).