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 the 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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