Newsletters
Input to City Planning Decisions – Updated 2018-04
Calgary River Valleys has been very active recently in providing input to the City of Calgary’s planning process for multiple projects. These are in various stages of the decision-making process. Highland Valley (former Highland Park golf course) At the City...
From Surprise Snowbank to Restored Riverbank
On October 6, Calgary River Valleys staff, Leaf Ninjas, and volunteers including MLA Greg Clark, got dirty to help keep the Elbow River clean and healthy. It was planting day for their pilot riparian restoration “Riverbank Makeover” project on the Elbow River....
Calgarians Dipped Their Toes in Some Citizen Science to Count Redds
This November, Calgary River Valleys offered Calgarians two opportunities for citizen science, participating in our annual Brown Trout Redd Count in the Lower Elbow River, as well as a count in the Upper Elbow River for the first time. Both events involved counting...
Big news! QB Court overturns City of Calgary Area Structure Plan
There was some big news in Calgary recently that you may not have heard about. In a decision published on February 22, 2019, the Court of Queen’s Bench overturned the December 2015 approval of the Providence Area Structure Plan (ASP), since it did not include a...
Riverbank Makeover Phase 1 “Garden Tour”
On August 22, 2019 we had a successful open house style tour of the riparian (riverbank) area on the Elbow River that we restored to fuller function in fall 2018. The wide variety of trees, shrubs, and wildflowers are doing very well & growing nicely since the...