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…
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.”
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
August 1, 2005
Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic in Willmore Exacerbated by Decades of Fire Suppression
Wild Lands Advocate article, August 2005, by Vivian Pharis 200508_AR_FOR2.pdf
April 1, 2005
Fire Management Plans Blaze Out of Control in Bighorn
Wild Lands Advocate article, April 2005, by Lara Smandych 200504_AR_BH.pdf
April 1, 2005
Alberta Refuses to Sign Canada Forest Accord
Wild Lands Advocate 13(2): 19, April 2005 by Shirley Bray 200504_AR_FOR2.pdf
December 1, 2004
Forest Succession on Seismic Lines, Wellsites, and Roads
Wild Lands Advocate 12(6): 13 – 14, December 2004 by Max Sherrington 200412_AR_FOR1.pdf
August 1, 2004
Saving Natural Capital in Alberta’s Boreal – The NRTEE
Wild Lands Advocate 12(4): 15, August 2004 By Ian Urquhart 200408_AR_FOR.pdf
June 1, 2004
Weyerhaeuser Postpones Logging in Caribou Habitat
June 1, 2003
FSC Certification: Is There Really A Choice?
Wild Lands Advocate 11(3): 14, June 2003 By Derek Osborne 200306_AR_FOR1.pdf