| Local
and Regional Effects Analysis | |
Miistakis worked for the Pekisko Land Owners
Association to conduct a Local and Regional Ecological Effects
Analysis for lands within the boundary of the Foothills Parkland
natural subregion, south of the Highwood River. Miistakis summarized
the impacts of a proposed gas development on the study area's
vegetation in three components:
- loss
of rare vegetation and challenges in restoration,
- invasion
of native prairie by non-native species following disturbance, and
- fragmentation
of native parkland.
The report also included
a literature review and preliminary cumulative effects analysis (using the ALCES
model) for the local and regional study area. |
