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From CP

BOB WEBER Tue Mar 21, 6:37 PM ET

EDMONTON (CP) - Roads, logging, energy development and other industrial activities have already chopped up almost one-third of Canada's forests, according to a report to be released Wednesday by Global Forest Watch.



In a report compiled from more than 1,000
NASA satellite photos, the organization found that nearly all intact forest left in Canada was in the territories and the northern parts of the provinces. Nearly two-thirds of that undisturbed forest was found in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and the Northwest Territories.

Alberta, with only four per cent of Canada's intact forest, has allowed activity in nearly all its woodlands, the report found.

It's the first time a study has taken a uniform look at how much untouched forest is left and where it's located, said Forest Watch director Peter Lee.

"There've been many regional studies, but nothing that's been done nationwide," he said.

"Government and industry do not ask those kinds of questions. They don't want to know the answer."

Lee's report used Landsat photos with enough detail to pick out objects 28 metres in size. It defined an intact forest as an untouched area of at least 100 square kilometres in the northern boreal forest and 50 square kilometres in the temperate forests of the Maritimes, southern Ontario and B.C.

That may seem like a high standard, but Lee said it depends on the context.

"If you're a woodland caribou, it's not very high. If you're a grizzly bear, it's not very high."

In all, the report examined about 6.5 million square kilometres of forest.

Alberta's forests have suffered the heaviest industrial impact, the report found. Only seven of 63 management areas still have more than half the forest intact.

The activity has had predictable results on wildlife habitat.

Less than half of Alberta's woodland caribou habitat and only one-quarter of its grizzly bear range still contain intact forest sections.

"Everybody is aware of how rapidly Alberta is proceeding with industrial development in its forests," said Lee.

Forestry and energy development are a "double whammy" in the province, he said.

Still, the report found that 70 per cent of Canada's forests remain whole and healthy.

Lee said the data can be used to monitor changes in the forest landscape. The information is also useful to environmental groups wanting to develop habitat protection campaigns and to forestry companies working towards environmental certification.
 
Help me out here-granola muncher??? I am not anti logging, only concerned we have a renewable resource that is not being abused.

The good news: Still, the report found that 70 per cent of Canada's forests remain whole and healthy.
 
Look who wrote the report these are the culls that would have everything grind to a halt, we would be living in caves if they got thier way, tree hugging, granola eating, sandal wearing, do gooding freaks. You don't get thier trip, any resource use is abuse, its like saying smoking a little pot makes you a hardcore drug addict, a few beers and you are a slobbering, bed wetting drunk. This Lee guy is a moron, look at his definitions of what an undisturbed forest is, 50 square kilometres? 30 miles by 30 miles square, a pretty big chunk of bush, don't you think? Cut down a few trees and now it is disturbed, what a loon. In regards to bears, if you really want to see wildlife in BC, head to a block that was clearcut about 5-10 years ago. This is BS, read it again.
 
Sounds like the mis-guided tree huggers in Canada aren't above slanting the facts to suit their purpose. I've yet to read a report by any environmental group that has anything good to say on any level about timber harvesting! If these wackos had their way we'd never cut another tree. I'm surprised Canada puts up with enviro-nazis...thought just us loggers in the USA had these kind of problems. Why are we constantly being put on the defensive by these cretins? Its tough enough to make a living logging without having to deal with the public"s attitude toward us after reading the kind of crap like that report.
Scroom...If they have the courage of their convictions let them do without anything in their life even remotely connected to the harvest of timber. No paper,no wooden dwellings,nothing made from wood or with any wood fibre. Until they're willing to admit that all the things that they'd replace wood with are non-renewable resources they're misguided and ill informed.:chainsaw:
Trees...America"s RENEWABLE Resource
 

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