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Frequently Asked Questions
Weaselhead Natural Environment Area
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What is the Weaselhead?
The Weaselhead Natural Environment Area is one of the most highly protected
areas in the city of Calgary. It encompasses approximately 620 acres (250 ha) where the
Elbow River enters the Glenmore Reservoir.
Bounded on the north, west and south by the Tsuu T'ina Nation, and on the east
by 37th St and the Glenmore Reservoir, it is the largest of three Special Protection
Natural Areas in the city.
The Weaselhead was purchased by the City of Calgary in 1931 in order to protect
the source of south Calgary's drinking water. In the 70 years since the city took
control of this area, the level of protection given to the Weaselhead and our
drinking water has only increased.
Over the decades, there have been many different plans by many different people
to develop the Weaselhead area for commercial purposes. And since the 1960s there
have always been a handful of people who have wanted to build a road through,
under or over this protected natural area. Through all of this, however, Calgary
city councils have always opted for clean water over any other plan.
Today Calgary's Weaselhead provides clean drinking water to one-sixth of all
Albertans. In addition to this, the area serves as an outdoor classroom to
thousands of Calgary school children who are learning about science and nature.
The area has also become unique in the world as a natural environment area
living in harmony with a growing city of nearly one million people. It has also
become one of the most popular parks in the city of Calgary with thousands of
visitors in every season of the year and is now home to more varieties of plant
and animal life than any other place in Calgary.
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