Righting a historic wrong for Alberta ranchers

For generations, Alberta’s ranchers have relied on water sources on public land to raise livestock and support their operations. Now, Alberta’s government is giving eligible ranchers a new opportunity to have long-standing agricultural water use properly recognized.When Alberta’s Traditional Agricultural Registration program closed in 2001, grazing leaseholders on Crown land could not apply directly because they did not own the land. Registrations were submitted on their behalf, and subseq