Clearcut at Christmas Mountains. Photo: CCNB.

Almost twenty years ago, New Brunswickers began a battle to save the Christmas Mountains in northern New Brunswick in what many recall as the largest mobilization for the forests in the province.

Today, the Christmas Mountains, located 70 kilometres west of Miramichi, are on the minds of those who love the area as another piece is carved off and clearcut; this time along the North Pole Stream. Read more…

A new book launched this week highlights the urgent need to protect Canada’s more than 20 million hectares of temperate and boreal rainforests – the world’s forgotten rainforests.  New Brunswick, Québec, Newfoundland, and British Columbia are among only 10 regions where temperate and boreal rainforests are found in the world.

The women of the northern New Brunswick community of Kedgwick are organizing to stop the spraying of the forest.

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The Conservation Council is alarmed by the granting of eight allocations to mine biomass from New Brunswick’s public forest. There is a glaring lack of consideration for habitat protection for New Brunswick’s forest species in the province’s Crown Forest Biomass Policy.

At least one-quarter of wildlife species in our Acadian forest depend on woody debris. Removing woody debris in Sweden has been correlated with a rapid decline in wildlife. Species across Europe that depend on deadwood are the largest single group of threatened species.

The government has considered the impact of removing woody debris from the forest floor on soil nutrient composition and the depth of water tables but they must also consider how this biomass mining will affect forest habitat, species and ecosystems.

For more information, visit our Biomass page.