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Stop logging Algonquin Park says lobby group

Wilderness Committee delivers thousands of letters to the Premier today, asking for an end to logging in Algonquin
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Algonquin Park. File photo.

A group called The Wilderness Committee has delivered thousands of letters to the Ontario Legislative Assembly, urging the Premier to end logging in Algonquin Provincial Park.

“People don't support the degradation of parks, of nature, of wilderness,” said Wilderness Committee Campaigner Eric Reder. “Parks are a place for people to escape and unwind, and to connect with nature.”

Over 3,600 letters were collected in Toronto and Ottawa over the last several months, demanding an end to logging in Algonquin Provincial Park. Algonquin is the only Ontario provincial park — and one of only two provincial parks in Canada — where logging is still allowed.

"Logging, and the roads required, have a destructive effect on forest land within Algonquin Provincial Park, including changing the tree species composition of the forest, affecting wildlife populations and changing the water flow," said Reder.

“Logging in Algonquin is trumpeted as a well managed industry by the government through the Algonquin Forest Authority as well as by all the logging companies. While this may be true, industrial activity has no place in a park,” said Reder. “Parks should be free of destructive industry, like they are in most of Canada and most of the world.”