The Canadian Land Reclamation Association/Association canadienne de réhabilitation des sites dégradés (CLRA/ACRSD) is a non-profit organization that was incorporated in 1975. The Association encourages personal and corporate involvement where reclamation or rehabilitation of disturbed lands is planned or implemented. Its members meet annually for technical discussion, information exchange and personal interaction. Local activities occur in Alberta, Atlantic Canada, British Columbia and Ontario where there are active provincial chapters. The CLRA/ACRSD provides its members with up-to-date technical information through the publication of its Newsletters, the magazine “Canadian Reclamation and proceedings of its annual conferences. These publications allow the organization to have an informal, instructional role in the decision-making processes of reclamation/rehabilitation projects and to act as a forum for the dissemination of ideas and information pertinent to reclamation activities.

Membership in the CLRA/ACRSD is available to anyone interested in or actively engaged in reclamation activities. The Association draws members from a wide range of industries, universities, consulting companies and government departments. The personal skills and interests of members are diverse and include agriculture, botany, plant ecology, forestry, wildlife biology, soil science, bioscience, landscape architecture, land use planning, civil and mine engineering, construction and reclamation.

Except for honorary Life Memberships, all memberships in the CLRA/ACRSD are for one calendar year. They are:

• Regular Member ($50),

• Student Member - full time students only ($15)

• Corporate Member - corporations, municipalities, governments or any other incorporated body ($200).

The Association is governed by an elected Board of Directors that represents most geographic areas of the country. It hold conference call meetings 3-4 times per year and meets with as many directors as are able to attend at annual meeting. It has one paid, part-time employee, its Secretary-Treasurer.

If you or your company are involved with or interested in reclamation of land or watercourses, environmental guidelines and/or enforcement, decommissioning, research (products, methods or equipment), or education, consider becoming a member of Canada's only national association concerned solely with reclamation. Contact us and we will send you additional information, including membership information and an application. Or you can print and fill in the following application form and send it with your payment (no credit cards accepted) to:

CLRA/ACRSD

Box 61047, Kensington Postal Outlet
Calgary, Alberta T2N 3P9

updated:  November 16, 2006