Sunday, January 12, 2014

Forestry industry in dark on effects of southern Alberta land-use plan

The provincial draft land-use plan for southern Alberta suggests forestry activities will be maintained and diversified, but lacks details on how that will accomplished. “There’s a lot of question marks in terms of what the impact will be to us as an industry or to us as a company,” said Gord Lehn, a director with Spray Lakes Sawmills in Cochrane. Forest land use sign post in the Castle Wilderness Area of Southern Alberta on Wednesday October 3, 2012.
Photograph by: Gavin Young , Calgary Herald

Forestry industry in dark on effects of southern Alberta land-use plan

By Colette Derworiz, Calgary Herald January 6, 2014

"“It’s really business as usual,” said Katie Morrison, conservation planner with the southern Alberta chapter of t
he Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.

The group suggests clear-cut logging and roads affect headwater forests, with land losing its natural ability to regulate water flow during floods and droughts."

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