Old Growth Logging in Canada

1. Old Growth Logging in Canada
By Mary Cameron

2. Old Growth Logging:
-Consequences?
-How did it all start?
-How is the government involved?

3. Biodiversity

4. • Ecological values
• Spiritual Values
• Economic values
• Social values

5. Natural Beauty
Soil Erosion
Unwanted debris
VS.

6. Survival
-Food
-Clothing
-Shelter

7. Fur Trade
Minerals Forestry

8. Non-native population using forests to
create log huts

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

10. BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT
-This Act gave the provinces the right to dispose of the timber and the
land from which it came

11. Early Logging techniques
Equated to large amounts of human labor due to lack of appropriate tools and technology

12. First Conservation Movement?
• Timber Reserves
• BC’s first forest parks
• Dominion Forest
Reserves Act
Forest Reserve

13. • British Forestry Commission receives approximately
16 tons of Sitka and Douglas Fir seeds from Canada
in the span of 9 years
Sitka
Douglas Fir

14. • Greenhouse gas
emissions
• Biodiversity
• Will the government
follow through with
their commitments?

15. 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.

16. Government fails to enforce an important wildlife law
against logging companies.
Migratory Bird Convention Act

17. Other possibilities?
• Recreation
• Carbon Storehouses
• Products other than
timber

18. Selling Carbon credits to countries with large amounts of pollution

19. Old Growth logging NEEDS to stop
Before it’s too late