Download - Old Groth Logging in Canada
BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT
-This Act gave the provinces the right to dispose of the timber and the land from which it came
Early Logging techniquesEquated to large amounts of human labor due to lack of appropriate tools and technology
First Conservation Movement?
• Timber Reserves
• BC’s first forest parks
• Dominion Forest Reserves Act
Forest Reserve
• British Forestry Commission receives approximately 16 tons of Sitka and Douglas Fir seeds from Canada in the span of 9 years
SitkaDouglas Fir
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Biodiversity
• Will the government follow through with their commitments?
The city of Whistler signed a 25-year harvesting agreement with the federal government, as well as with the Squamish first nations. They propose that 20 thousand hectares of old growth
trees will be cut down every year.
Government fails to enforce an important wildlife law against logging companies.
Migratory Bird Convention Act