| Location: | Waterton Reservoir and Cottonwood Creek |
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| Difficulty: | 5 km, Easy+. (Though we will not be hiking far or gaining significant elevation, the travel will be off trail and require fording a creek) |
| Cost: | By donation |
Join wetland ecologist Kirby England (a.k.a. the beaver guy) and cottonwood biologist Cheryl Bradley, both advocates for healthy rivers and streams, as we experience two dams– one built by beavers and one by humans. Learnings will be woven into conversations about the differences for aquatic ecosystems and water management in southern Alberta.
With a backdrop of our Rocky Mountain headwaters, this adventure provides a beautiful setting to compare and contrast two fundamentally different approaches to water storage and management. The first, the Waterton Reservoir, is massive and human-engineered. Differences in the ecosystems upstream and downstream of the dam and in the diversion canal will be observed and implications for biodiversity and water management discussed.
Directions to the meeting point will be emailed to registered participants a few days before the trip.
