{"id":12112,"date":"2026-01-08T17:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T17:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/?p=12112"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:01:31","slug":"proposed-grassland-conversion-in-md-taber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/?p=12112","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Grassland Conversion in MD Taber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In March 2026, ANPC provided information to the Municipal District of Taber, who are considering a proposal to convert approximately 3,100 acres of native grassland into irrigated cropland. Although the project was initially approved by a narrow 4-3 council vote in September 2025, a newly elected council paused the development in late 2025 to evaluate the ecological and economic risks of conversion. ANPC\u2019s letter to the MD provides critical information about rare plant species, including Species At Risk, documented within the project footprint.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Conversion-of-Native-Grasslands_MD-Taber_v2-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Conversion of Native Grasslands_MD Taber_v2 (1).\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-072ba365-51b3-4eec-a036-435765a8ca89\" href=\"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Conversion-of-Native-Grasslands_MD-Taber_v2-1.pdf\">Conversion of Native Grasslands_MD Taber_v2 (1)<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Conversion-of-Native-Grasslands_MD-Taber_v2-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-072ba365-51b3-4eec-a036-435765a8ca89\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2026, ANPC provided information to the Municipal District of Taber, who are considering a proposal to convert approximately 3,100 acres of native grassland into irrigated cropland. Although the project was initially approved by a narrow 4-3 council vote in September 2025, a newly elected council paused the development in late 2025 to evaluate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_0519-scaled.jpg","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12113,"href":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112\/revisions\/12113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anpc.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}