2.6K views · 40 reactions | Recently trappers from across Alberta came together in Rocky Mountian House to participate in the 2022 Rendezvous. The event featured trappers showing off a number of their bushcraft skills, while also attending a number of educational seminars. | Let's Go Outdoors Alberta | Facebook

The Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada now cover roughly 100 square miles (258 square kilometers). The facility has expanded as its production of oil increased since the 1990s - an average of 3.1 million barrels were extracted each day in 2018, which is four times as much as in 2005. Athabasca contains Earth’s largest known deposit of bitumen, a semi-solid form of crude oil that occurs as a mixture of sand, clay, and water. The additional energy required to mine and then remove the sand from