Mount Broadwood Conservation Area
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Back in 1992, Shell had the mineral rights to this area.
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Some great people in Shell - before my time - decided
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this is a fabulous place;
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it's better off being turned into a nature reserve
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than us keeping on our books, maybe for the future,
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for using for oil and gas.
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Mount Broadwood was donated
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to the Nature Conservancy of Canada by Shell.
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It still remains the largest donation in Canadian history,
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so a very exciting gift for Canadians to receive from Shell.
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The thing that's probably the most iconic,
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from my perspective, is its size.
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It's just such a big landholding and it really set the path for us
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to do more conservation work in the Elk and Flathead River drainages.
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You have everything from streams, and lowlands and riparian
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to cliffs with bighorn sheep and mountain goats.
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Shell's recently reinvested in Mount Broadwood,
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which is really exciting.
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It's going to help us to update our baseline inventory
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and it'll really give us a good sense of what are the key values
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on the property on a map base?
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And then that'll help us to look at the other activities on the land
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and plan how best to manage the land to protect those values.
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I think Canadians should care about property like Mount Broadwood,
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in part because it's just spectacularly beautiful;
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I think there's an aesthetic that's worth conserving.
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And beyond that it's such a core part of functioning ecosystems.
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I personally had the privilege to be involved
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in a couple of pretty significant land deals
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where we've bought into land in the boreal
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- the boreal forest in Alberta.
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And we've bought into land with Ducks Unlimited
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in the prairie grassland in the south-east of Alberta.
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And now I've got up here and, visually, it's stunning.
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It's such a great place visually; it's a great place ecologically.
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And I'm knocked out by this place.