{"id":71021,"date":"2017-02-17T02:14:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T02:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/ndp-urges-government-to-preserve-last-federal-pastures-2.html"},"modified":"2017-02-17T02:14:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T02:14:39","slug":"ndp-urges-government-to-preserve-last-federal-pastures-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/ndp-urges-government-to-preserve-last-federal-pastures-2.html","title":{"rendered":"NDP urges government to preserve last federal pastures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal NDP is urging the Liberal government to hold on to the last of its pastures in Saskatchewan, rather than proceed with a plan to transfer them to the province.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>National heritage group adds pasture land to &#8216;endangered places&#8217; list<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">People displaced by pasture program subject of new book by Trevor Herriot<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Conservative and Liberal governments have handed off responsibility for Saskatchewan&#8217;s environmentally critical grasslands without any concern for their future protection,&#8221; Kootenay-Columbia MP and National Parks critic Wayne Stetski said during question period Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we come close to losing the last three\u00a0pastures\u00a0in the southwest corner of the province, will the minister of the environment commit today to creating a new National Wildlife Area to preserve them for future generations?&#8221; Steski asked.<\/p>\n<p>It was in 2012 that the Conservative government made the decision to hand over 61 federal pastures by 2018.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Sask. deciding what to do with community pastures<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Saskatchewan ready to lease 10 community pastures<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A release from the federal NDP said the province &#8220;continues to lease\u00a0this land to ranchers, but at higher rates and with fewer support services.&#8221; It also spoke of a need to protect the &#8220;integrity of these grasslands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The clock is ticking,&#8221; Regina-Lewvan MP Erin Weir said in the written release. &#8220;If we want to keep these\u00a0pastures, we must act now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The federal Community Pasture Program was created in the 1930s to reclaim land that was badly eroded during the drought in the Prairies.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatoon\/ndp-sask-pasture-land-1.3985263?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal NDP is urging the Liberal government to hold on to the last of its pastures in Saskatchewan, rather than proceed with a plan to transfer them to the province. National heritage group adds pasture land to &#8216;endangered places&#8217; list People displaced by pasture program subject of new book by Trevor Herriot &#8220;Conservative and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-71021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}