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 6, 2020

Around 61 percent of Alberta is forested.

AWA Position:

News Release: Alberta Increases Annual Timber Harvest by 13%

AFPA report on “Investing Innovative Ways to Improve & Enhance the Forest Resources in Alberta”

Public Lands Should Not be Sold to Mackenzie County

New forest certification standard promises better protection for woodland caribou

Book Review: Edward Struzik, Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future

Reflection on Alberta Forest Week

A Boreal Forest Divided Cannot Stand – A Cumulative Effects Story

Welcome to Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland Provincial Park

The Foothills

If a Tree Falls…Listening to Alberta’s forests

Woodland Caribou Threats and FPAC Forestry Industry Report

Shortfalls of Alberta’s Wetland Policy in the Green Area