January 22, 2008
AWA News Release: Government Violates Guidelines and Allows Further Destruction of Endangered Caribou Habitat
It has been recently learned that government continues to permit industrial use in these intact…
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Around 61 percent of Alberta is forested.
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The majority of this 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.
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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.”
January 22, 2007
AWA News Release: Caribou Jeopardized by Forest Products Association Decision to Clearcut for Pine Beetle
Alberta’s threatened woodland caribou suffered one more nail in the coffin with the recent about-turn…
December 7, 2006
AWA News Release: Woodland Caribou Sacrificed as Government Forces Companies to Log Pine Forests
The Deputy Minister of Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) has confirmed that the Alberta Government…
December 1, 2006
War on Pine Beetle May Sacrifice Caribou, Protected Areas
Wild Lands Advocate article, December 2006, by David Samson 200612_AR_FOR.pdf
November 10, 2006
AWA News Release: Alberta Government’s War – Threatened Caribou Are First Casualties
Alberta is forcing companies such as Weyerhaeuser in Grande Prairie to log mature pine forest…
August 1, 2006
Tracking Stewardship from the Forest to the Page: Topline Printing Leads the Way in Alberta
Wild Lands Advocate, August 2006, by Joyce Hildebrand 200608_AR_FOR.pdf
May 9, 2006
AWA News Release: Albertans Speak Out about Forests: Wildlife Comes First
In a recent survey of forest use in Alberta, Albertans made it clear that managing…
May 1, 2006
Alberta Forest Usage Survey
Report by the Alberta Forest Products Association, related to “understanding societal values Albertans hold towards…
March 29, 2006
AWA News Release: Land Swapping May Help Save Valuable Boreal Forests in Northeastern Alberta
Alberta still has an excellent opportunity to protect several significant unfragmented wild forests in northeastern…
March 22, 2006
AWA News Release: Precaution and Protection Needed to Thwart Ecological Nightmare in Alberta’s Forests
A new study by Global Forest Watch ranks Alberta as having the lowest amount of…
December 1, 2005
Fire in the Willmore
Wild Lands Advocate 13(6): 28, December 2005 by Vivian Pharis 200512_AR_FOR.pdf
August 1, 2005
Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic in Willmore Exacerbated by Decades of Fire Suppression
Wild Lands Advocate 13(5): 25 by Vivian Pharis 200508_AR_FOR2.pdf
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