old growth logging canada
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Old Growth Logging in Canada
By Mary Cameron
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Old Growth Logging:-Consequences?
-How did it all start?-How is the government involved?
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Biodiversity
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• Ecological values• Spiritual Values• Economic values• Social values
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Natural BeautySoil Erosion
Unwanted debrisVS.
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Survival-Food-Clothing-Shelter
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Fur Trade
Minerals Forestry
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Non-native population using forests to create log huts
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Coastal Coastal logging along British Columbia’s shore and low-slope areas
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BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT-This Act gave the provinces the right to dispose of the timber and the land from which it came
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Early Logging techniquesEquated to large amounts of human labor due to lack of appropriate tools and technology
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First Conservation Movement?
• Timber Reserves• BC’s first forest parks• Dominion Forest
Reserves Act
Forest Reserve
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• British Forestry Commission receives approximately 16 tons of Sitka and Douglas Fir seeds from Canada in the span of 9 years
SitkaDouglas Fir
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• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Biodiversity• Will the government
follow through with their commitments?
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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.
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Government fails to enforce an important wildlife law against logging companies.
Migratory Bird Convention Act
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Other possibilities?
• Recreation • Carbon Storehouses• Products other than
timber
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Selling Carbon credits to countries with large amounts of pollution
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Old Growth logging NEEDS to stop
Before it’s too late