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In article <Pine.A32.3.90.950313194700.65400B-100000@srv1.freenet.calgary.ab.ca> Peter Abramowicz <crag@freenet.calgary.ab.ca> writes:
>From: Peter Abramowicz <crag@freenet.calgary.ab.ca>
>Subject: Forestry Policy Proposal
>Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 23:02:24 -0700 (MST)


>The following statement on forest management for Alberta is the result of
>discussions among Calgary area environmental groups in response to the
>forestry crisis in Alberta. We offer it to the environmental community for 
>comments and discussion.

>It is our hope that this statement can form the basis for a general 
>consensus on forest policy within Alberta. The statement was compiled by 
>Peter Abramowicz and Stuart Baldwin.

>Please send your comments and reactions to this statement to: 

>                crag@freenet.calgary.ab.ca

>INTERIM RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF ALBERTA'S FORESTS, 
>PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

SNIP!

>SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS

SNIP!

>               c)   Riparian Buffers within Managed Areas.  These are
>                    meant to safeguard water quality.  A 300 m buffer on
>                    each stream bank is suggested.

What happens if all the streams in a watershed are 295 m apart?

SNIP!

>          3)   Logging practices must be based on the biological
>               requirements of ecosystem-specific plant and animal
>               species. In most cases selective logging techniques
>               should be favoured over clear-cutting, since selective
>               logging can maintain healthy forests and at the same time
>               eliminate the need for "reforestation". It also allows for
>               other uses of the forests at the same time.

What would you do in an even-aged stand of lodgepole pine, a shade-intolerant 
species that can't regenerate under its own canopy?  Wouldn't selective 
logging would eliminate this species?

SNIP!
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