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Does a park's logging ban mean a logging road is also prohibited?

Wed 19 Aug 2009 07:08:38 PM EDT

There is a logging ban in Manitoba's Grassy River Provincial Park but Tolko wants approval to build a logging road through the park so the company can access the timber north of the park.



Manitoba granted Tolko a license for the building of the road on August 12th.



Critics to the building of the logging road, critics who include Manitoba Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard, the Wilderness Committee, and Manitoba Wildlands, claim the road not only flies in the face of Manitoba's Forest Amendment Act, but the road will also have a negative impact on the migration route of the park’s woodland caribou. Woodland caribou gained protected status under the province's Endangered Species Act in 2006.



Logging is currently banned in 79 of Manitoba's 80 provincial parks.



Source:

Ecologists fight logging road in Manitoba park (CBC)


 


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