Stop Logging in Algonquin

Only 713 names are on this petition since May of 2006!!!!!

Not enough people know what is happening to this National Park that many of us have enjoyed.

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"The fact that a government report says that it's time to reduce the area of logging in the park is great news,'' said Evan Ferrari, director of the Wildlands
League.

"It would be the first expansion of protection area in Algonquin in 40 years,'' he added, noting that a recent survey suggested only 14 per cent of Ontario residents knew logging went on in the park."

Plan to reduce logging in Algonquin Park lauded
Sun. May. 27 2007
Canadian Press



"The Ontario government has responded to modern-day Thoreaus by imposing strict controls on logging in Algonquin. The park's logging camps and sawmills have been closed. Chain saws and lumber trucks may not operate in places and at times when tourists will hear or see them. No cutting is permitted on lake shores or portages. The result, however, is not less logging, but less apparent logging."

EXPLORING CANADA'S ALGONQUIN PARK
Published: July 24, 1983
NEW YORK TIMES



"On December 8, 2006 the Ontario Parks Board produced the report Lightening the Ecological Footprint of Logging In Algonquin Provincial Park , which was subsequently released in May 2007 to the public. This report makes a series of recommendations, the most notable of which is to expand the protection zones to include 54% of the Park. This presents an historic opportunity to protect some of the remaining pristine and old-growth forests that are currently available for logging within the Recreation/Utilization Zone of the Park. To this end, we conducted a mapping analysis of old-growth forest in Algonquin Park, which shows that less than half of the old-growth forest in the Park is currently protected from logging. The Ontario Parks Board recommendations would increase this level of protection for old-growth forests to just over two thirds of the old growth remaining in the Park. In addition to leaving one third of the Park’s old-growth forest available for logging (roughly 34,000 ha, an area half the size of the city of Toronto), a number of large clusters of old-growth stands would be excluded from the recommended new protected zones.http://www.ancientforest.org/algonquin_forest_maps.pdf] for the full report. ancientforest.org/algonquin.htm



PETITION SITE: http://www.savealgonquin.ca/

FACEBOOK CAUSE (application) GROUP: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/view_cause/46159?recruiter_id=2873094


FACEBOOK GROUPS DEDICATED TO SAVING ALGONQUIN PARK (in order of largest to smallest):

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2408928957

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2368179595

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2373389735



MORE INFORMATION:

http://www.wildlandsleague.org/display.aspx?pid=72&cid=224

http://cpaws.org/news/archive/2006/10/environmental-commissioner-ber.php

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E1DB1339F937A15754C0A965948260&sec=travel&spon=&pagewanted=2

http://www.perc.ca/PEN/1999-05-06/cpaws.html

http://www.ancientforest.org/algonquin.htm

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20070527/algonquin_park_logging_070527/20070527?hub=TorontoHome