Overview
Alberta’s sub-regional plans are a key component of the province’s approach to maintaining a working landscape and supporting a broad range of land uses and values including conservation, Indigenous traditional land use, recreation and economic development. Planning will be completed for up to 14 sub-regions, including 2 heritage rangelands, across the province.
Albertans will have opportunities to share feedback on the draft sub-regional plans and heritage rangeland management plans as they are developed and released.
Active engagements
Sub-regional plan engagements
Heritage rangeland management plan engagements
Stakeholders and Indigenous communities and organizations can provide input on the following draft heritage rangeland management plans until November 17, 2026:
Get informed
Use the map below to explore land use planning engagements:
Key features
Some key features of sub-regional plans are:
- guidance on the placement and duration of footprint from human activities such as roads, industrial development and recreation
- restoration of legacy footprint (for example, seismic lines)
- monitoring environmental and socio-economic indicators to measure plan performance
- sustainable and sufficient recreation and tourism opportunities to meet the growing demand
- protection of headwaters
- supporting traditional land uses
Learn more about sub-regional planning.
Heritage rangelands
Heritage Rangelands are established for the conservation of representative areas of Alberta’s prairies, using grazing through long-term leases and traditional ranching practices to maintain the native grassland ecology.
They are located only within the Grassland and Parkland Natural Regions of Alberta and on significant grasslands within the Montane Sub-region of the Rocky Mountains Natural Region.
Recent engagements
Results under review
Feedback is currently being considered to finalize the following sub-regional planning engagements:
- South Athabasca Sub-regional Plan engagement
- Bistcho Lake Sub-regional Plan engagement
- Ghost-Kananaskis Sub-regional Plan engagement
Outcomes so far
Your input has helped guide sub-regional planning throughout the province. Find out more about completed engagements:
- Upper Smoky Sub-regional Plan engagement
- Cold Lake Sub-regional Plan engagement – the Cold Lake sub-region has been included in the draft South Athabasca sub-regional plan