Oilfields School in Diamond Valley has been awarded funding to help students explore sustainable cattle ranching.
Eleven Alberta schools are sharing $14,000 in funding for 13 projects through the Environmental Student Action Challenge (ESAC), which lets students develop school-based projects to help minimize negative human impacts to the environment.
At Oilfields, students will explore sustainable ranching, with a focus on maintaining and rehabilitating native grasslands to benefit the economy, the environment and the social welfare of Albertans.
Announced last month, the ESAC grant helps turn student innovation into solutions, said Rebecca Schulz, Alberta’s minister of environment and protected areas.
“The kids in school today are stewards of our environment tomorrow,” Schulz said. “These students are doing innovative and important work, and I am excited to see the results of their projects.”
Other projects will look at water conservation, pollinator habitat and creating an Indigenous outdoor classroom.
Funding is from the Government of Alberta and coordinated by the Bow Habitat Station in Calgary.
More information about the projects, and their results, will be announced in June, the Province said.
