Resource Room

1.BOREAL WILDLIFE

Birds
• CPAWS-Northern Alberta Boreal Birds Fact Sheet, August 2004

Woodland Caribou
• Caribou Management in Alberta - 2 pager (pdf) - April 20, 2006
• Caribou Management in Alberta - full report (pdf) - April 20. 2006
• West Fraser Hinton and Caribou Management (pdf) - April 20, 2006
• West Fraser (Alberta Newsprint Company) and Caribou Management (pdf) - April 20, 2006
• Suncor/ConocoPhillips pipeline through the A La Peche/Little Smoky Caribou Ranges (pdf) - April 20, 2006
• Weyerhaeuser Logging in Alberta Caribou Range (Word) - April 20, 2006
• Species at Risk Act (SARA) legal petition for Alberta's woodland caribou (pdf)
• Weyerhaeuser and Caribou Deferrals: Behind the Smokescreen (pdf)
• Grey Ghosts: Can we save Woodland Caribou in Canada's Boreal Forest?
• Press Release on Caribou
• Woodland Caribou Facts by CPAWS National
• Quick Facts on Alberta's Caribou
• Operating guidelines for industrial activity in caribou ranges in west central Alberta(Word) - 1996

Grizzly Bear
• CPAWS Northern Alberta Grizzly Bear fact sheet, March, 2006
• CPAWS Northern Alberta Grizzly Bear report, March 2006

Forest Watch Alberta
• links to Government's webpages and species status reports

2.CUMULATIVE IMPACTS

• Managing the Cumulative Impacts of Land-uses in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin: A Modeling Approach
• Alternative Futures, Chapter 5: Cumulative Impacts

3.FORESTRY

Forest Ecology
• *NEW* Mountain Pine Beetle in Alberta: Working with Nature,
Fact Sheet September 2006 *NEW*
• Forest Structure and Pattern: the Foundation of Forest Biodiversity,
Fact Sheet August 2000

Forest Management
Overview of Ecosystem based forest management
• Forest Management in Alberta: Status Report and Recommendations for Policy Change, July 13, 2005
• Alberta Forest Conservation Strategy
• Ecological Forest Management: An Overview, Fact Sheet June 2002
• Limitations of the Natural Disturbance Model of Forest Harvesting,
Fact Sheet June 2000
• Overview of Forest Status, Forest Watch Alberta Website
• Planning and Practices Survey of FMA Holders in Alberta, Forest Watch Alberta, January 2001
• Summary of Major Forest Conservation Issues in Northern Alberta, Fact Sheet April 2000
• The Natural Disturbance Model of Forest Harvesting:
An Overview, Fact Sheet August 2000

Forest Certification and Other Markets Approaches
Forest Stewardship Council
• Forest Stewardship Council and Indigenous Peoples and Nafa letter
• FSC Homepage
• Structural Impediments to FSC Certification in Alberta:
Overcoming Barriers to Well-Managed Forests, November 2001
•The Canadian Boreal Standard Links to the Indigenous People
•What are Endangered Forests?

Independent Reports Section
• A synopsis of fire research in the boreal mixedwood forest., April 2002
• Relationships Between Stand Age, Stand Structure, and Biodiversity in
Aspen Mixedwood Forests in Alberta
• Senate Subcommittee on the Boreal Forest Competing Realities:
The Boreal Forest at Risk, June 1999
• Sustainable Forest Management and its Major Elements: Advice to the Lands
and Forest Service on Timber Supply and Management, September 1997
• Long-term (1956-1996) effects of clearcut logging and scarification on forest structure and biota in spruce, mixedwood, and pine communities of west-central Alberta.

Overview of forestry in AB
• Alternative Futures, Chapter 3: The Forestry Sector Today
• Forest Management in Alberta: Provincial Forestry Policy, May 2001
• Forest Management in Alberta: Harvest Planning and Operation Practices, May 2001
• Overview of Forestry, Forest Watch Alberta Website
• The Forestry Act
• Whatever Happened to the Alberta Forest Conservation Strategy, December 2001

Old Growth Status in Alberta
• Alternative Futures, Chapter 8: Old-Growth
• Old-Growth Forests in Alberta, Fact Sheet May 2001

4.PARKS & PROTECTED AREAS

• The State of Alberta's Parks Full Report
• The State of Alberta's Parks report summary
• CAPP (Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers) Statement of Consensus and Outstanding Issues
• Honouring the Promise: Aboriginal Values in Protected Areas in Canada, September 2003
• Overview of Alberta's protected areas
• Establishing a protected area network in Canada's boreal forest:
An assessment of research needs
• Maintaining a Natural Fire Regime Within Protected Areas in the Boreal Forest
• Industry Support for Protected Areas and Ecological Benchmarks
• Public Advice on Conservation Ignored by Alberta Government
• Alternative Futures, Chapter : 7 Protected Areas
• Maintaining A Natural Fire Regime Within Protected Areas in the Boreal Forest, August 2001
• Commitments to Benchmarks
• Parks and Protected Areas Discussion paper

5.PETROLEUM

CPAWS Reports
• Death By a Thousand Cuts: Impacts of In-Situ Oil Sands Development on Alberta's Boreal Forest, 4 MB August 1, 2006. (print resolution - 19 MB )
• Death By a Thousand Cuts Interactive Video, August 1, 2006.

Declarations
• Managing Oil Sands Development for the Long Term: A Declaration by Canada's Environmental Community (pdf) Released Dec. 1, 2005.
• A Response to the Mineable Oil Sands Strategy: Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Northern Alberta (pdf) Released Dec. 14, 2005.

Overview of oil and gas activities and impacts
• Alternative Futures, Chapter 4: The Petroleum Sector Today
• Overview of Oil and Gas, Forest Watch Alberta Website
• The Oil and Gas Industry in Alberta: Drilling and Production
(Fact Sheet by the Alberta Centre for Boreal Studies (Nov., 2001))
• The Oil and Gas Industry in Alberta: Seismic Exploration
(Fact Sheet by the Alberta Centre for Boreal Studies (Nov., 2001))
• Petroleum Industry Fact Sheet

Regulations
Coming Soon

Best Practices
• ILM Report: Integrated Resource Management in Alberta:
Past, Present and Benchmarks for the Future, 2002

Independent Reports
• Managing the Cumulative Impacts of Land-uses in the Western Canadian
Sedimentary Basin: A Modeling Approach, April 2003