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A conservation article (?EUR??,,????'?????<?Fighting for a forgotten forest?EUR??,,????'?????<?) in the Feb. 9, 2004 issue of U.S. News & World Report is the type of feature many readers probably skip right over: just more of that environmental stuff. Well, many readers might look at the cute picture of the moose on p. 58 before forging ahead. The image is there to remind folks that deforestation is threatening the habitats of Bullwinkle and his friends: caribou, lynx, wolves, bears, martens, and birds. According to the article, three billion birds, one-third of all land birds in the U.S. and Canada, nest and bear their young in the Canadian boreal forests each summer.
In case you skipped the article, here are a few interesting bits:
Global Forest Watch says that 40 percent of Canada?EUR??,,????'?????<???EUR?s northern forests are gone, not just to logging, but to mining, oil and gas rigs, roads, and power lines.
Only 10 percent of Alberta forests exists in tracts larger than a few square miles. In 1960, that number was 95 percent.
And don?EUR??,,????'?????<???EUR?t even get started on Russia, where 86 percent of its forests have been divided into parcels smaller than 14 miles on a side, considered the minimum size needed to preserve a forest ecosystem.
Who cares? A coalition of 11 environmental groups has a plan, the Canadian Boreal Initiative.
The CBI seeks to protect at least 50 percent of the region and ?EUR??,,????'?????<?support sustainable communities, world-leading ecosystem-based resource management practices and state-of-the-art stewardship practices in the remaining landscape.?EUR??,,????'?????<?
According to the CBI, Canada's boreal region contains ?EUR??,,????'?????<?one-quarter of the world's remaining original forests,?EUR??,,????'?????<? and is the ?EUR??,,????'?????<?largest intact forest ecosystem left on Earth.?EUR??,,????'?????<? They figure it?EUR??,,????'?????<???EUR?s worth protecting.
P.S. Betsy Carpenter?EUR??,,????'?????<???EUR?s article in U.S. News & World Report notes that the U.S. uses about 80 percent of Canada?EUR??,,????'?????<???EUR?s wood products (pulp, paper, particleboard and lumber).
For more information on the CBI, visit https://www.borealcanada.ca/index_e.cfm
Source: World Resources Institute, www.wri.org/wri/
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
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Ash Nochian, Ph.D. Landscape Architect
November 12th, 2025
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