Clear-cut case of oversight

Manitoba’s Duck Mountain Provincial Park is home to some of Manitoba’s oldest forests — and one of just two parks in Canada still subject to commercial forestry.

Over 11 days in 2021 and 2022, environmental advocate Eric Reder surveyed the forests in the park and surrounding Duck Mountain region to assess the effect of logging. His findings — including biodiversity loss, violations of provincial forestry rules and decimation of the park’s recreation trails — were recently released in a Wilderness Committee audit.

“The entire region is now sliced up by all-season logging roads, including virtually all portions of Duck Mountain Provincial Park,” Reder says. “It’s just astonishing to imagine that we’ve allowed this to happen to a provincial park.”

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