Forests - Alberta Wilderness Association

AWA Position:

AWA is committed to maintaining healthy and intact forest ecosystems that will sustain biological diversity and viable wildlife populations, provide clean drinking water, and promote long-term economic opportunities. AWA supports responsible ecosystem-based forest management that does not compromise wildlife and wilderness values.

Grizzly Ridge, Kananaskis (N. Douglas)

The majority of Alberta’s forested land is in the vast Boreal Forest Natural Region, with an additional strip of forested land running down the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains, in the Rocky Mountain and Foothills Natural Regions.

Each of these forested areas has its own distinct biological features, and also its own distinct “issues.”

Boreal Forests

Rocky Mountain and Foothills Forests

May 18, 2024

News Release: No Update to Action Plan for Wood Buffalo National Park Despite Recommendations – Environmental Groups Disappointed

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Edmonton, AB/Calgary, AB – Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Northern Alberta Chapter (CPAWS…

February 22, 2024

Around 61 percent of Alberta is forested.

AWA Position:

How to Be a Good Bird Photographer

AWA to participate in the Grassy Mountain Public Hearing

From Canopy to Currents: Exploring the Forest-Water Connection

Action Alert: Speak up for Banff’s ecosystems

Action Alert: Bison must be listed as wildlife in Alberta

Joint letter requesting bison be listed as wildlife

News Release: No Update to Action Plan for Wood Buffalo National Park Despite Recommendations – Environmental Groups Disappointed

Northback Holdings response to AER’s review process

Upper Highwood Logging on Pause

Then They Wrote it All Down as the Progress of Man

Building a Relationship with the People of McClelland

Northback Holdings Corp. response to AWA statement of concern