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CALGARY - A drive to increase Alberta’s forest harvest as lumber prices hover at record heights is allowing members of a northern First Nation to become resource owners as well as timber-gathering contractors, says the leader of the Bigstone Cree Nation.
Darcy Elliott, shipping supervisor at Spray Lake Sawmills, inspects lumber at the facility in Cochrane, Alta., Thursday, May 20, 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
CALGARY - A drive to increase Alberta’s forest harvest as lumber prices hover at record heights is allowing members of a northern First Nation to become resource owners as well as timber-gathering contractors, says the leader of the Bigstone Cree Nation.
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The swans were ignoring the ice.
I could see them out on the pond, way over on the far side, paddling steadily along and pushing shards of thin ice in front of them. Morning sun glinted off them as they flipped over and cracked in front of the huge birds. Mallards followed behind them, swimming in their wake.
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It was still cold from overnight and fresh snow blanketed the shoreline and the surrounding fields while low, puffy clouds rolled across a sky that was trying to turn blue. The light breeze that had sprung up riffled the open water in the middle of the pond and rattled the loose ice along the shore. I could hear geese honking from across the water and the occasional boom of one of the trumpeter swans that were swimming through the last of the thin ice.