Stop logging Ontario's old-growth forests NOW!

Stop logging Ontario's old-growth forests NOW!

Ontario has old-growth red and white pine forests with 400 year-old trees that were seedlings when Indigenous peoples were encountering Samuel de Champlain. Incredibly, these extremely precious and rare old-growth stands are treated the same way as pine stands planted in 1900. Instead of protecting these precious trees and forests, the Provincial Government is allowing forestry companies to log them. We need to stop this.   

Government and the forestry industry see the trees as nothing more than “crops” to be harvested and replanted on a regular basis. But old-growth trees are not crops and the forests surrounding them are not ...

Ontario has old-growth red and white pine forests with 400 year-old trees that were seedlings when Indigenous peoples were encountering Samuel de Champlain. Incredibly, these extremely precious and rare old-growth stands are treated the same way as pine stands planted in 1900. Instead of protecting these precious trees and forests, the Provincial Government is allowing forestry companies to log them. We need to stop this.   

Government and the forestry industry see the trees as nothing more than “crops” to be harvested and replanted on a regular basis. But old-growth trees are not crops and the forests surrounding them are not fields. Old white and red pine trees are part of an old-growth pine ecosystem that includes dead standing snags, great logs, and organic debris which support a vast network of largely unseen mycorrhizal and other fungi. 

After a century of cutting, these surviving old-growth pine stands are now rare. Some are protected but most are slated for cutting.  

We cannot lose one more tree.  

The Provincial government has the power to save Ontario’s old-growth forests. Your government will only do this if they hear from you. Please send this letter now and help stop the destruction of Ontario’s old-growth forests. 

 

Photo credits: Rob Nelson (banner image) & Gord Miller (image below)  

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