The Grassroots of Conservation

Even though we conserve and manage over 210,000 acres, it still doesn't get old...because when we're taking care of the land, we're taking care of the future. And when that time comes it's not us choosing our limitations. It's the land.

What we take on now decides the outcome of Alberta's conservation science, practice, and policy. Thankfully, working with other like-minded people and groups stretches our capabilities.

ACA has been working with landowners, donors, and corporations since 1997 to set aside parcels of land-some being farmland, where we enhance habitats, encouraging the wild to get a little wilder. Other parcels might be mostly untouched, and we work to keep them that way. A future as good as our present day depends on fostering what we have, while finding opportunities to conserve more of those special places.

Learn how these sites are changing the conservation game, or contact us to find out how you can be part of it all.

Boulder Lake - 5 guys stand on a dock
Holden - Treelined field
Milk River Badlands - Rock formation in the badlands
Side Family - Antler on the ground
Funnel Lake - Blue bell flowers
Timber Ridge - Valley with grass and trees
Macconnachie - Antlers on the ground
Chinook - Pond surrounded by greenery
Scheerschmidt - Wetland beside crop of canola
Golden Ranches - Porcupine in a tree
Letourneau - Up close view of a tree branch
Silver Sage - Sharp-tailed Grouse
Ross Creek - Pronghorn in a field