A lone, young man walks along a long, empty, prairie, dirt road found along the foothills that border the Rocky mountains in southern Alberta during October of 2005. Much of this area of low population density, large ranches and farms nestled at the base of the southern Rocky mountains is changing hands to concentrations of people in tight and clustered housing with paved roads.

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