AltaLink has donated $655,000 to the University of Alberta’s Rangeland Research Institute (RRI) to support the creation of the AltaLink Master’s Scholarship in Rangeland Disturbance Ecology, which will advance research that will protect Alberta’s rangelands. “Alberta’s rangelands are vital to Read More …
Category: News
ALES Range Team shines again at prestigious competition
The ALES Range Team rode out of Texas this month with an impressive haul of awards, attesting to ALES students’ mastery of range management topics and plant identification. In total, the 2016 Range Team won eight categories after completing two Read More …
RRI research affiliates help settle global debate on biodiversity
Working with a large network of scientists worldwide, who studied grasslands of every type in all climate zones, University of Alberta rangeland researchers Edward Bork and Cameron Carlyle helped reaffirm a theory of diversity that had been under attack. Known Read More …
ALES signs conservation agreement to preserve Mattheis Ranch forever
The University of Alberta and Western Sky Land Trust signed a conservation agreement that guarantees the U of A’s 12,000-acre Mattheis Ranch will be conserved forever. In announcing the agreement, one of the biggest in the history of Alberta, Faculty Read More …