Modeste Saskatchewan Natural Area is composed of five, non-adjoined, parcels of land. All but this one are South of the North Saskatchewan River.
Continue reading2024-09-18: Modeste Creek (North)
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2024-09-18: Burtonsville Island
Burtonsville Island Natural Area is only accessible by crossing a beaver dam, with local landowner permission, or from the river. From all accounts, it is undisturbed.
Continue reading2024-09-21: Threepoint Creek
Threepoint Creek rate a a Naturalness score 3 despite limited disturbances from ATV tracks. A beaver dam has caused flooding in the western area.
Continue reading2024-09-21: Bragg Creek NA
Flooding caused by beaver activity has affected the trails. Access to the Northern part is via the nearby PRA.
Continue reading2024-05-05: Eagle Hill (NA)
Eagle Hill PNT, relatively undisturbed despite surrounding oil and gas activities.
Continue reading2024-08-24: Magee Lake NA SAPAA Field Trip
Five members and one guest attended the late summer SAPAA field trip which included Magee Lake NA. This is a combined post with notes from Hubert T., Kate R., and photos from Phrank P.
Continue reading2024-03-29: Crippsdale Natural Area
A slightly disturbed NA with two well-defined tracks suitable for hiking.
Continue reading2023-09-27: Telfordville NA
Although the subject of past abuse by ATV’ers, the site has not deteriorated appreciably and there has been some unofficial trail work done on the site.
Continue readingCounting Protected Areas
The SAPAA site has three broad structures: Administration, Protected Area Visits and the site pages themselves. These last pages cover an important, but often over looked, subset of Alberta’s Protected Areas.
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