The Boreal Issue

January/February 2011

With environmentalists on one side and the forestry industry on the other in the war for the woods, how did the two groups come together and call a truce to sign the historic Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement? Find out in the January/February issue of Canadian Geographic online and see other exclusives, including:

• The winning shots in our 26th Annual Photo Contest

•The story of German royalty and pioneering forestry behind the biggest private conservation land deal in Canadian history

• How crews of Canucks planting Sitka spruce and Douglas fir are turning British forestry on its head

• How Avatar got it right: “mother trees” feed the forest

War for the woods Environmentalists on one side, the forestry industry on the other. How did two groups with different aims call a truce and sign the historic Boreal Forest Agreement?
By Rick Boychuk with photography by Tobin Grimshaw

PLUS: Watch the lifecycle of a log from the woods to your house.

What is old wood good for? Low-quality timber gains new value as “energy wood”
Story and photography by David Lindsay

Saving the Darkwoods The biggest private conservation land deal in Canadian history reveals a story of German royalty, rugged wilderness, pioneering forestry and a shroud of privacy
Story and photos by Bruce Kirkby

PLUS: Read about an unsettling stay in a cabin in the woods and visiting Darkwoods year-round in an interview with the author.

26th Annual Photo Contest winners Canadian Geographic and the Forestry Products Association of Canada present the winners of our 26th Annual Photo Contest