Open Letter to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative on Logging in Southern Mountain Caribou Habitat

May 12, 2025
By: cpawsstaff
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For more information, contact: 

Tara Russell, Program Director, CPAWS Northern Alberta
[email protected]

Figure 1. First three periods of the draft Upper Smoky Sub-Regional Plan timber harvesting on Redrock-Prairie Creek and Narraway southern mountain caribou winter ranges, in relation to the last remaining caribou occurrence and movements on their winter ranges. Caribou location points from radiotelemetry monitoring data from Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (2025).
Figure 1. First three periods of the draft Upper Smoky Sub-Regional Plan timber harvesting on Redrock-Prairie Creek and Narraway southern mountain caribou winter ranges, in relation to the last remaining caribou occurrence and movements on their winter ranges. Caribou location points from radiotelemetry monitoring data from Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (2025).
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Figure 2. Redrock-Prairie Creek and Narraway Southern Mountain Caribou location points on winter ranges before (before 2014) and after (since 2014) caribou distribution decline associated with industrial developments on the winter ranges. Caribou location points from radiotelemetry monitoring data from Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (2025).

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