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 15, 2018

News Release: Environmental groups, Cold Lake First Nations, petition Minister of Environment and Climate Change for caribou protections

Safety net order would allow the federal government to extend Species at Risk Act protections…

Around 61 percent of Alberta is forested.

AWA Position:

AWA Welcomes New Northeast Alberta Protected Areas

Take Action for the Livingstone and Porcupine Hills!

Letter RE: North Saskatchewan Regional Plan (NSRP) Regional Advisory Council (RAC) Advice

Alberta Caribou Need More than a ‘Plan to Plan’

“Caribou come first. That’s the law, and that’s the right thing to do”

Help Save Alberta Caribou From Extinction

AWA Comments on Alberta’s Draft Provincial Woodland Caribou Range Plan

Alberta ‘Plan to Plan’ Won’t Save Our Endangered Caribou

Alberta Government Draft Provincial Woodland Caribou Range Plan

Caribou Safety Net Question in House of Commons

AWA News Release: Albertans Deliver ‘Quarters for Caribou’ to Premier

News Release: Environmental groups, Cold Lake First Nations, petition Minister of Environment and Climate Change for caribou protections