~ Big load

Loaded off Highway logging truck. Picture taken on Queen Charlotte Islands.

Md: growth forests, variously
called: virgin, ‘primeval, over-
mn mature,” or . decadent, . have
: “become over the last ten years, a
“source of growing tension bet-
* ween “forest industries and
forest preservationists. This ten-
‘sion = is’ often counter-
- ‘productive, with ..protesters ar-
“rested, and industrial opera-
_», tions delayed. These conflicts of
“interest frequently involve court
battles. with ‘the resultant out-
‘come. unsatisfying for the af-
fected parties.
“Before the advent of commer-
al forest harvesting, the age of

growth slands developed, con-
taining individual trees. which
could often survive for hun-
dreds of years. These stands
supported ecosystems with
highly specialized flora,
vertebrates, birds and mam-
mals, sometimes unique to the
habitat.

Old growth forests-were first’

logged by Europeans in ihe ear-
“ly 1600's to build, settlements
and to clear land for
agriculture. As.Canada became

- progressively colonized, her

forests remained domestic until
the blockage ofthe Baltic Sea by

forest: ‘stands | was determined, .; Nanolcap, depriving the British

akets he

° ‘naturally’ “by. species, longcyilyi,, ofa, highly-valued, wood supply

“through disease ‘or insect
“epidemics; and by periodic
“forest wildfires. Wherever con-
ditions .were favourable, old

needed for the construction and
maintenance of her navy, As a
resull Britain turned to
Canada’s extensive Maritime

in-

white pine forests for a secure |

timber supply... Thus began
Canada's commercial usage of
the forest resource.

After three hundred years of -

logging, Canada's best known

old growth forests: are largely
restricted to British Columbia -
and
(hroughoul the other provinces, -
~ such as the Temagami Region in

isolated stands ‘scattered

Ontario.’“Many of these. stands
are sluled for future harvest by
forest» companies. As the call
for old growth preservation

‘continues, forest industries are

being forced to. defend their
haryesting.. cighis, obtained,
through long-term ‘agreements
with provincial governnients..
These rights are being question-
ed by the growing volume of
citizens who offen blame the

often

Old growth trees

forest industry for having ex-
clusive interests. ‘This blame is,
misdirected, .as forest
companies must comply with
provincial forest management
plans,

Today's forest industry,’ a
myriad of saw mills and pulp
mills, is facing a new awakening
of the environmental move-
ment. As a visibly extractive in-
dusiry, forest companies must
expend great amuunts of time
and effort cducating ihe public
in the principles of forest
management. The complexities
of forests and their ecology are

- n01 easily understood, thus the
all too frequent claim of faulty’

company practices. The harvest
of old growth stands does little
to strengthen the
standpoint.

industrial

.by Lorna Bailey of Edmon-
ton, Alberta, If replaced a
stylized design representing
trees and people which had
“been used for many years.
The logo is used by CFA and
-« Member Provincial Forestry
Associations to identify
special projects or other ac-
tivities which Promote this
special week.

National Forest Week jogo

The National Forest Week...
* logo was adopted i in 1985 by i
the - Canadian. Forestry |
‘association, It was designed.

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