End logging at Duck Mountain park: Wilderness Committee
Winnipeg Sun
A campaign has been launched to end logging at Duck Mountain Provincial Park.
The park, located about 450 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, is one of two parks — the other being Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario — targeted for protection by the Wilderness Committee. Manitoba director Eric Reder alleges the parks are “mere shadows of their ecological selves, with the continuation of destructive commercial logging within their boundaries.”
Manitoba banned logging in all provincial parks but Duck Mountain in 2009 — 16 years after the Clean Environment Commission recommended commercial forestry activity in all provincial parks be phased out. Since then, the Selinger government has been extending contracts to log in the park through 2018.
“Our parks must be protected from destruction,” said Reder, in a press release. “The time is now — the public will definitely exists. We have to end park logging. To do any less is to fail for future generations.”
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