West Athabasca Watershed Bioregional Society

The Athabasca Bioregional Society is an Environmental Non-Government Organization located in the headwaters of the Athabasca River. Our membership comes from Hinton, Edson, Jasper and surrounding areas.

Our mandate is to protect, preserve and restore the Athabasca Watershed through advocacy, education and community projects.

"The broad basic problem is whether or not the government should condone and encourage the industrialization of Alberta at the expense of the rivers, the air and the countryside of our Province through a lack of policy and foresight, or should we endeavor to promote industrialization in an orderly manner which will bring the greatest possible benefits to all the people in Alberta without necessitating the improper exploitation of our greatest natural resources--which are the air we breathe and the water and the soil."
[Public address by Norman A. Willmore to the Edson community, Feb. 25, 1955.]