Old Growth Logging in Canada

By Mary Cameron

Old Growth Logging:-Consequences?

-How did it all start?-How is the government involved?

Biodiversity

• Ecological values

• Spiritual Values

• Economic values

• Social values

Natural BeautySoil Erosion

Unwanted debris

VS.

Survival

-Food

-Clothing

-Shelter

Fur Trade

Minerals Forestry

Non-native population using forests to create log huts

Coastal Coastal logging along British Columbia’s shore and low-slope areas

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

Other possibilities?

• Recreation

• Carbon Storehouses

• Products other than timber

Selling Carbon credits to countries with large amounts of pollution

Old Growth logging NEEDS to stop

Before it’s too late