Alberta's Forests Deserve More Than "Matchstick Forestry"
Alberta Wilderness Association
News Release: February 9, 2006
The proposed C5 Forest Management Plan favours management of a huge area of southern Alberta forest for low grade timber harvesting, while ignoring its enormous value for a wide range of other uses. Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) believes forests must be managed for protection of essential water sources, recreation and wildlife populations. AWA is calling for an end to industrial scale logging south of Trans Canada Highway.
"This is a forestry management plan, not a forest management plan," says Nigel Douglas, AWA Conservation Specialist. "This spectacular landscape has so much more to offer than just timber extraction. Its current management produces what is becoming known as 'matchstick forestry': dense stands of small thin trees of uniform size and species." Read More