Statement on the Upper Smoky Sub-Regional Plan

Nature Alberta is concerned about the Government of Alberta’s recently released Upper Smoky Subregional plan, which will severely compromise two of Alberta’s three remaining southern mountain caribou herds, an “At Risk” species in Alberta. Deforestation and habitat fragmentation are the key contributors to caribou population decline. 

Approval of this plan would allow American-owned logging company, Weyerhaeuser, to clearcut within critical winter habitat of the Red Rock Prairie Creek and Narraway caribou herds leading to their likely extinction.

For more details on the environmental effects of the Upper Smoky Subregional plan, see this joint news release by the Alberta Wilderness Association and a coalition of NGOs. You can also complete this public survey being conducted by the Government of Alberta and attend the in-person open house events in April held in Grande Prairie and Grande Cache.