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~ Presented by the Community Planning Association of
Alberta ~
(half day session)
New Tools for Conservation and Stewardship
The
Education Session for this year’s conference will be a half - day of
interactive learning.
Duration: The duration of the Education Session is from
9:00am to 12:15pm
Monday April 12, 2010
Session
Format and Content:
The intention of the Education Session is to be both an instructive and
interactive experience for those in participating. We will provide
expert presenters on key subjects in the planning process, the roles of
all engaged in the municipal planning process.
Alberta’s Land Use Framework was introduced to you last
year. The first two regional plans are under way - but there is more to
come! The follow-up this year focuses on a new Conservation and
Stewardship Strategy that will outline tool
implementation provided for under the Alberta Land Stewardship
Act (ALSA) that was enabled in October 2009. The Strategy means that
there are new land stewardship tools on the horizon to incent landowners
to conserve ecological goods and services, to set up transfer of
development credits, and to conserve environmental, agricultural and
scenic landscapes. In this session you will learn about the next steps
going forward – which will then be followed by regulations so we can
actually enter into implementation. There is a perception that
this toolbox places limits on agricultural producers. Instead the
opposite is true. To hear more about this aspect you will hear from
Harvey Buckley, a cattle rancher in the foothills in the west part of
Rocky View County. Harvey is also a Councillor and a director of Action
for Agriculture. For the first time ever there will be tools available
to earn cash, to set up transfer of the estate, and to preserve the
environment – the environment you have been preserving all these years.
Come learn about the plan to implement these tools in the province as an
on-the-ground reality. See you Monday morning,
April 12.
Monday, April
12, 2010
at the Black Knight Inn
Red Deer, Alberta
Conference (Education Session)
Registration Form
click here to download
Education Session Agenda
(when available) click here to
download
Education Session Fees:
Member Fee:
$100.00, GST not applicable
Non-member Fee:
$125.00, GST not applicable
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