Riparian areas are the zones of water loving plants influenced by water that, although small in proportion, do allot for us.  Beavers are a keystone species that create riparian habitat and influence the ecosystem functions these areas provide.  This presentation will offer an overview of beaver biology, ecology, and behaviour.  It will also touch on challenges when their behaviour or actions conflicts with those of humans and discuss some of the options available for addressing these challenges while still maintaining the benefits of the habitats they create.

Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there) is a 4-part documentary series all about inventive farmers and maverick scientists building a path to solving climate change with hooves, heart and soil. Can an underutilized way to graze cattle, that mimics the way bison once roamed the land, help get farmers out of debt, restore our depleted soils, rebuild wildlife habitat and draw down huge amounts of carbon? Cattle have been seen as eco-villains for a long time. What if they can help save us from catastrophic climate change? (Please note you need to register for each episode).

This talk, drawn from Putting Down Roots, examines Métis land dispossession in the Qu’Appelle Valley through the implementation of the Dominion Lands Act and related policies of survey, homesteading, and scrip. These settler colonial policies imposed new systems of land tenure privileging individual ownership, agricultural labour, and strict homestead requirements, undermining Métis relationships to land grounded in kinship networks, mobility, and river-lot settlement. Survey and title regimes fragmented Métis landholdings, while scrip accelerated their transfer to settlers and speculators. Displaced from titled land, many Métis families relocated to the road allowance—marginal spaces set aside in the Dominion Lands survey for the creation of roads—where they built communities and maintained enduring connections to traditional territory.

Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there) is a 4-part documentary series all about inventive farmers and maverick scientists building a path to solving climate change with hooves, heart and soil. Can an underutilized way to graze cattle, that mimics the way bison once roamed the land, help get farmers out of debt, restore our depleted soils, rebuild wildlife habitat and draw down huge amounts of carbon? Cattle have been seen as eco-villains for a long time. What if they can help save us from catastrophic climate change?

APG Extension Event – Southern Session Join us for a day of hands on learning and conversation. Topics include: · The Rural CEO · Kochia – the good the bad and the ugly. Learn proper identification and strategies to mitigate the risk of this invasive weed · All things root rot: proper ID, decision making tools to manage the risk · ONE STEP – what are practical measurable things I can do that will impact soil health (peer -peer discussions)

APG Extension Event – Northern Session Join us for a day of hands on learning and conversation. Topics include: · The Rural CEO · Kochia – the good the bad and the ugly. Learn proper identification and strategies to mitigate the risk of this invasive weed · All things root rot: proper ID, decision making tools to manage the risk · Lupins: A new opportunity