Publications

A Sierra Club of Canada Discussion Paper — September 2003 FULL REPORT Forests affect and are affected by climate change in numerous ways. The impacts of climate change on forests and forest health can be expected to be significant, and in some regions severe. Large undisturbed forests will be of increasing importance as refuges and migration routes for species forced into new regions with more suitable climate. Forests, Climate Change and Carbon Reservoirs focuses on the potential role of forests in mitigating climate change through enhanced storage of carbon.

Recommendations in a recently released industry-SCC report represent a significant step forward towards resolving conflicts between logging and wilderness preservation in a watershed of about 1,000 km2 on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. This is an area of old-growth boreal forest that is ecologically significant, important for wilderness recreation and a source of fiber for Corner Brook Pulp and Paper’s newsprint mill in nearby Corner Brook

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Ontario's State of the Forests Report, released in the summer of 2002, provides detailed information on managed forests in Ontario to the public. It uses criteria and indicators as a framework for providing this information.

This pamphlet explores the role that the tenure system has played in Canada’s forest management practices, and the potential of community forests to improve the equitable sharing of forest resources, Aboriginal rights to land, and the ability to utilize forests while maintaining the forest’s ecological structure, function and composition.