Bush league,
Maybe around Slave there are large cut blocks that are not salvage logs, but I still see small patch logging elsewhere and recently north of Slave Lake to Utikima Lake.
There seems to be a different treatment where it is lodgepole and jack pine forest which is being cut to stop the eastern spread of mountain pine beetle for once and for all.
Canada Environment has spent a lot of money to try and stop the eastern movement of Mountain Pine Beetle, as the fear is that if Mountain Pine Beetle gets into Saskatchewan there will be no way to stop the infestations from spreading clear to Ontario which relies on a lot of pine for timber.
As it turns out last February's - 40 C killed 98 % of the Mountain Pine beetle in Alberta, so it may have been a wasted effort to go around cutting all the pine down.
But I agree that the Mills have a lot of influence since 2014 as the forest industry is the only thing keeping much of rural northern Alberta alive these days.
Drewski
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