Time to end logging in Ontario and Manitoba parks!
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Hi PAOV,
Today the Wilderness Committee is launching our campaign to end park logging in Ontario and Manitoba, with the release of a new educational report, logging maps for Duck Mountain Provincial Park and Algonquin Provincial Park, and action cards aimed at the Manitoba and Ontario governments.
I vividly recall the painful loss I felt the first time I stepped into a clearcut in Manitoba’s Nopiming Provincial Park in 1986, where a forest ecosystem I had grown to love was forever damaged.
In 2009, the Manitoba government protected all parks from logging...except one.
Last fall in Duck Mountain Provincial Park, I felt that pain again as I stood in another massive clearcut. but also anger that logging was still destroying lands that were set aside for the preservation of nature.
Around Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park, loggers make a lot of noise about how their selective logging leaves little impact on the park. Yet thousands of kilometres of logging roads – and basic common sense – say otherwise. The giant forests of yesteryear will never exist for future generations if we continue to log our parks.
The respected voices of the Environment Commissioner of Ontario and the Clean Environment Commission in Manitoba have stated that logging in parks must stop.
These are the last two parks in Canada with long-term commercial logging. It’s time for us to end park logging, once and for all.
You can find the full educational report, End Logging in Ontario and Manitoba Parks, on our websiter0
