Stop Alberta’s caribou-for-profit deal
U.S. logging threatens the last winter habitat of two caribou herds
The Alberta government has released a draft land-use plan that could allow massive clearcutting in the last remaining winter habitat of two threatened caribou herds — Red Rock–Prairie Creek and Narraway.
If approved, this plan would hand critical caribou habitat over to U.S.–based logging giant Weyerhaeuser.
This would almost certainly lead to the eradication of these two herds.
Decades of industrial disturbance have already devastated their habitat. Less than 15 per cent of undisturbed habitat remains in the Narraway range and less than 30 per cent in the Red Rock–Prairie Creek winter habitat. These herds are already hanging on by a thread. Now, Alberta’s proposed Upper Smoky Sub-Regional Plan threatens to destroy what’s left. Habitat disturbance has disrupted the seasonal and natural movements of the caribou herds. The valley bottoms are so heavily disturbed that caribou cling to the mountains.
This isn’t responsible forest management. It’s a clearance sale.
Act now: Tell Alberta to revise this plan and protect caribou habitat before it’s too late.