Events - Alberta Wilderness Association

April 21, 2024

Earth Day Celebration: BBQ + Nature Photography Presentation

Time: April 21 @ 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Location: 455 12 Street N.W., Calgary, AB Price: By Donation Join Alberta Wilderness Association for an Earth Day barbeque at our Calgary office in Kensington. We'll eat, mingle and hear from Alberta nature photographer Nick Carter, a writer, photographer, and naturalist from Edmonton. A lifelong love of nature led him to complete a Bachelor of

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April 23, 2024

AWA Book Club – April Meet Up

Join Alberta Wilderness Association’s new quarterly book club! This quarter’s read is The Bees By Laline Paull. Discussion Meeting: April 23, 2024 Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Location: 455 12 Street N.W. (Alberta Wilderness Association office)

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April 27, 2024

Adventure for Wilderness – Big Hill Spring Citizen Science Wander

April 27, 9 a.m. Big Hill Spring Provincial Park Learn all about citizen science while also exploring a beautiful natural area near Calgary. This adventure is done in partnership with the City Nature Challenge 2024 and Big Hill Creek Preservation Society. Participants will have to chance to learn how to use their phones to identify native

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April 30, 2024

AWA Talk Night: Ask Your Questions to West Fraser

Time: 7 p.m. Location: 455 12 Street N.W., Calgary, AB Price: By Donation What do you want to know from West Fraser?

Late last year, logging company West Fraser bought Spray Lake Sawmills, the company originally behind the logging plans in the Upper Highwood in Kananaskis, West Bragg Creek, and Horse Lake/Aura Creek. West Fraser has since announced it would be putting the Upper Highwood logging

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May 4, 2024

Adventure for Wilderness – An Introduction to Birdwatching at Frank Lake

May 4, 8:30 a.m. Frank Lake Come and learn the basics of bird watching with AWA board member and avid birder Chris Saunders at one of the best places to see birds in Southern Alberta. No prior experience or equipment necessary. Frank Lake, which is about 10 kilometers east of High River, is an important place for water birds. It is a temporary

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May 5, 2024

Adventure for Wilderness – Spring Ramble in Fish Creek Park – A Jane’s Walk

May 5, 6 p.m. Fish Creek Provincial Park Hosted by staff from Alberta Wilderness Association, this walk is a chance to experience Fish Creek Provincial Park with all your senses! Fish Creek Provincial Park is an important protected area within the vast urban landscape of Calgary. We will have the opportunity to slow down and notice the plants and animals returning or waking

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May 5, 2024

Adventure for Wilderness – Nature Sketchwalk at St. Patrick’s Island – A Jane’s Walk

May 5, 1 p.m. St. Patrick's Island Do you like to draw? Do you like nature? Grab some colored pencils and paper and join kid book illustrator & author Carolyn Fisher and Alberta Wilderness Association conservation specialist Kennedy Halvorson at St. Patrick’s Island for 2 hour walk with frequent stops to sketch. All ages and levels of experience welcome. Kids must be

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May 11, 2024

Adventures for Wilderness – Spring Flowers and Vistas on Tote Road

May 11, 1 p.m. Benchlands Join Benchlands resident Heinz Unger on a ramble through his rural neighbourhood West of Calgary, which includes wetlands, old-growth forest and amazing views of the mountains. The aspens should be greening out, early flowers will just be blooming and the birds returning to the forest. Discover this hidden gem that few people get the chance to visit. Starting

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May 25, 2024

Adventure for Wilderness – Ice, Glaciers, Gravel and Oil – Cochrane North Field Trip

May 25, 2024, 9 a.m. Cochrane Ranche This Saturday adventure, which begins in Cochrane, is a road trip where we will see various forms of magnificent glacial geology in the Cochrane North & Lochend areas. This field trip will be led by Tako Koning, P.Geol., an experienced professional geologist. We will drive through and stop at locations in the deeply incised glacial

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May 26, 2024

Adventure for Wilderness – Unicorns in the Whaleback

May 26 10 a.m. Bob Creek Wildland Provincial Park with Kevin Van Tighem As an Alberta-born writer and conservationist, who spent much of his working life in Alberta’s mountain parks, Kevin Van Tighem has a few stories to tell. Some of these have ended up in his many acclaimed books about the wild places and creatures of Alberta. Spend a day with this

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June 22, 2024

Highwood Reflections

June 22 10 a.m. Highwood River, Kananaskis Country Grab your sketchbook and join artist/author Carolyn Fisher and AWA conservation specialist Devon Earl to hike, draw, and document the Upper Highwood area, where West Fraser (formerly Spray Lake Sawmills) plans to clearcut 1,100 ha of mature forests. Although Albertans have fought to preserve their natural spaces, unsustainable logging occurs throughout the Eastern Slopes in areas

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July 20, 2024

Adventure for Wilderness – McKinnon Flats Nature Walk

July 20, 11 a.m. McKinnon Flats Join Justine Doll and Kay Fleming for an afternoon adventure discovering the native plants and pollinators at McKinnon Flats. Contribute to a citizen science project in the area, learn about the pollinators and plants that live there and connect with folk who are passionate about nature! We will meet at McKinnon Flats and walk the trail along

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August 3, 2024

Adventure for Wilderness – Calgary Fossil Discovery Adventure

August 3, 2024, 1 p.m. Downtown and Inner-City Calgary This half day urban field trip invites participants to discover the huge variety of extraordinary, fossilized creatures in the walls of some of the buildings in and around downtown Calgary. These fossilized creatures are examples of some of the earliest forms of life and are found in 450 million-years-old rocks quarried from the

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August 18, 2024

Adventure for Wilderness – Hiking Hussey’s Loop

August 18 South Ghost with Heinz Unger This is a full day hike into a more remote area of the Ghost watershed; it is rarely visited except by outfitters and sheep hunters. It is located along the middle section of the South Ghost River, just where the valley starts to narrow. We will pass the old Hussey’s Cabin and some additional cabins built

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AWA hosts events of all types throughout the year and throughout the province.