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We need to preserve our natural spaces for a healthier planet and people. This includes our provincial parks. Remember those? One way to ensure we protect them for the future is to learn about their past. I'm no history major, but thankfully I know a few wise minds who can share their knowledge.

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Even if we love parks, we have to understand the good and the bad of them to be able to protect them. We can't protect something that we don't really understand.

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We can't go back in time, but the past can come through to us through these fossils and traces and remains and so on.

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So by doing the history to go with the archeology, you can put that story together with it. And then if you can tell people, this is an important place and here's why all these interesting and exciting people lived here and they did all these neat things that not only affected Alberta history, but they affected North American history or world history.

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Our places serve a lot of roles in society and one of them is that historical role. It's kind of like the museum in town, and these museums capture what was here in many different ways, and it could be the Wildlife Museum or the Human History Museum. They capture and represent a stage of our history that we need to remember.

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That's in direct contrast to indigenous views and understandings of heritage. Where heritage is a practice, heritage is our songs, our language, our ceremonies, and you need to practice those. That's how we preserve our heritage

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Throughout history. If we look at Kananaskis or Alberta Conservation as a whole or most social change as a whole, it really comes down to people making decision-makers know that they care about something and the direction that they want to go.

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Coming soon, I help us remember our Alberta parks by looking at their unique, interesting, and sometimes surprising history. There's so much to discover and there's no time like the past. So let's get started.

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I'm trying to save the planet. Oh, will someone please save me?