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…
Around 61 percent of Alberta is forested.
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.
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.
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.”
December 7, 2006
The Deputy Minister of Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) has confirmed that the Alberta Government…
December 1, 2006
Wild Lands Advocate article, December 2006, by David Samson 200612_AR_FOR.pdf
November 10, 2006
Alberta is forcing companies such as Weyerhaeuser in Grande Prairie to log mature pine forest…
August 1, 2006
Wild Lands Advocate, August 2006, by Joyce Hildebrand 200608_AR_FOR.pdf
May 9, 2006
In a recent survey of forest use in Alberta, Albertans made it clear that managing…
May 1, 2006
Report by the Alberta Forest Products Association, related to “understanding societal values Albertans hold towards…
March 29, 2006
Alberta still has an excellent opportunity to protect several significant unfragmented wild forests in northeastern…
March 22, 2006
A new study by Global Forest Watch ranks Alberta as having the lowest amount of…
December 1, 2005
Wild Lands Advocate 13(6): 28, December 2005 by Vivian Pharis 200512_AR_FOR.pdf
August 1, 2005
Wild Lands Advocate 13(5): 25 by Vivian Pharis 200508_AR_FOR2.pdf
August 1, 2005
Wild Lands Advocate article, August 2005, by Vivian Pharis 200508_AR_FOR2.pdf
April 1, 2005
Wild Lands Advocate article, April 2005, by Lara Smandych 200504_AR_BH.pdf