Photo: Western Canada Wilderness Committee. Clearcut and slash, Vancouver Island.
I live on a 32 000- square-kilometer area of rain forest. Since the mid-1800s, three quarters of its original old-growth forests have been logged. Thirteen per cent of its total land area remains protected in parks.
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Liquidation logging continues apace, reinforcing already dangerous levels of atmospheric carbon.
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Urbanization is effectively defined by developers, not communities or government.
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In the absence of public approval or even public hearings, progress has begun for biomass energy production from the combustion of millions of tons of logging slash.
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Frantic clear-felling operations are under way on vast tracts of pine-beetle-infested landscape. While a quick, short-term fix for flagging industry, how this measures up against leaving the ecosystem to recover on its own hasn't been made clear to us.
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I live on Vancouver Island -- not in the Amazon.
Click on map to see it fullsize: courtesy Western Canada Wilderness Committee
Letter to the editor, Globe and Mail, 5 January 2008 by Brian Nemiroski, Courtenay, BC, commenting on Joe Friesen's 4 Jan article "A Critical Shield against Global Warming" about the proposed boreal national park Thaydene Nene (Lands of the Ancestors) in the East Great Slave Lake region.
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