Pinhorn Provincial Grazing Reserve (Alta.)

found: Work cat.: 2004 Pinhorn Grazing Reserve soapweed population survey, 2006.

found: Hurlburt, D. Status of soapweed (Yucca glauca) in Alberta, 2001, via WWW, viewed Feb. 19, 2008:Distribution (Soapweed exists in only two known natural populations in southeastern Alberta ... The Pinhorn (Alberta) population is located on the Pinhorn Grazing Reserve along a 200 m stretch of southwest-facing coulee on the Milk River drainage.)

found: Great Canadian rivers.com Web site, Feb. 19, 2008:Milk River > Economy (Straddling the Milk River in its lower Alberta reaches (directly south of Medicine Hat), the 30,672 hectare Pinhorn Provincial Grazing Reserve is the largest community pasture in Alberta. The Reserve, named for a noted North West Mounted Police veterinary inspector, was formally established in 1962 at the request of local farmers and ranchers. On their behalf, the Alberta government purchased the land of a local ranch, adding the Pinhorn Reserve to a provincial inventory of public grazing lands; public grazing lands are designed to relieve grazing demands on more productive private farm property, allowing farmers to use their own land for crop and hay production; managed by the Pinhorn Grazing Association. Like all provincial grazing reserves, Pinhorn permits multiple public uses of non-grazed areas, including hunting for deer, antelope and upland game birds, canoeing on the Milk River, birdwatching, and hiking)

found: Alberta Sustainable Resource Development home page, Feb. 19, 2008:Lands > Using Public Land > Provincial Grazing Reserves (PGRs) (There are 32 provincial grazing reserves located throughout Alberta. ... Some of the reserves, or community pastures, are natural (native) grassland, while others have been partially cleared and seeded to tame forage; 76,681 acre Pinhorn reserve; The Pinhorn and Sage Creek reserves also encompass two of the largest tracts of intact native prairie left in Alberta) List of PGRs (With 76,681 acres, the Pinhorn Provincial Grazing Reserve is the largest in Alberta. Its rolling native grasslands, divided by steep coulee banks, are considered to be some of the best grazing land in the country; located along the U.S. border, directly south of Medicine Hat)