On our trapline north of Edson the greedy companies like West Fraser are now cutting 1000+ acre cut blocks. They claim pine bettle but I have a tough time even finding any lodgepole pine with "Any" bettle infestation, especially now that Alberta had killing frost last winter. The tragedy is they cut "Baby trees" now that are less than 6" diameter and throw most of the tree on the burn piles. It would be interesting to calculate their GHG effect on the planet when they remove most of Canada's Boreal forest that absorbs most of the CO2 on the planet, similar to the Amazon rainforest.
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