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Protecting the Dark Sky Greg Shyba Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation Area
Greg Shyba, CEO of the Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation Area talks about the impact of the lighting suggested by Alberta Transportation for the Calgary Southwest Ring Road.
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ASCCA Partner Request
If your organization is interested in supporting the ASCCA through partnering or sponsorship, please contact us at info@crossconservation.org or 403-931-1042.
Sandy's Cross Conversation Area
Lyndee Free shows us some fun activities at Ann & Sandy’s Cross Conservation Area located just south of the city.
Cougar and skunk encounter near Calgary
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Our CEO Greg Shyba captured this video of a skunk meeting a cougar along the road, October 31, 2017. If you have any questions about the video Greg can be reached at gshyba@crossconservation.org
Cross Conservation Area #AllianceCharityPartners 2016
The Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area's entry to Alliance Pipeline's Charity Partners Initiative
Tree Planting with Nuera
Spring tree planting with our team and our partner WEARTH at the Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation area in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Hail at the Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area
Cross Conservation
Some images taken while hiking in the Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation Area near Calgary. Chickadees were digging a nest hole, and views of the Canadian Rockies
Drone Flight from Red Deer Lake to Cross Conservation Area
An Alberta foothills drone flight from Red Deer Lake to the Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation Area.
Video captured using a DJI Phantom 3 Professional in 4K resolution.
Date = March 29, 2016.
Cross Conservation video
This is a video we did for a fundraiser for the Cross Conservation Area south of Calgary.
Adorable injured baby beaver rescued, rehabilitated and released in Alberta
Adorableness alert! Remember this injured but irresistibly cute baby beaver that was rescued in Alberta back in 2016? Today, there was a happy ending to her story (and the story of her new partner!), thanks to the Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation and the Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation Area.
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Alberta Junior Forest Rangers Celebrate 50 Years
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The mid-century forest industry in Alberta were trying times. Money was tight during the depression and the traditional work force was depleted during World War II. Recovery was slow: budgets, training, retaining, and running programs were difficult endeavours. Youth programs in the 1950s like the Alberta Junior Forest Wardens and the Girl Forest Guards highlighted a new push in forestry. As part of this push, the Junior Forest Ranger (JFR) program was created in 1965 to give a work experience opportunity to older youth.
Calgary Foundation 3 Things for Canada
For Canada’s 150th birthday, Calgary Foundation staff came together to give a gift of three things—three acts of service to our community.
Northern Lights from Calgary
Here's My Canada: My Canada: What Canada Means to The ASCCA
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)