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

January 5, 2022

Around 61 percent of Alberta is forested.

AWA Position:

Letter to AER regarding the Fort Hills Oil Sands Project at the McClelland Lake Wetland Complex

Sterilizing Alberta’s Forests

GoA Revised Harvest Direction to West Fraser in Little Smoky-A La Peche Caribou Ranges

West Fraser’s Proposed Moon Creek Logging – The Worst Place in Alberta to Clearcut?

AWA Concerns with Proposed Logging in/near Critical Habitat for Endangered Athabasca Rainbow Trout

Government Map Confirms Plans to Log Old-Growth Forests Near Grande Cache, Increasing Risks to Threatened Caribou

The Worst Place to Clearcut in Alberta? Caribou, Wolves and Endangered Trout Think So

Forest Management in Alberta: Sustainable or Suspect?

AWA Comments: Cold Lake Draft Sub-regional Plan

AWA Comments: Bistcho Lake Draft Sub-regional Plan

Alberta Forests Deserve More than the “Forests (Growing Alberta’s Forest Sector) Amendment Act”

The Forests Act – What Should Be Included