We launched a legal case on behalf of Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) challenging the legality of a 21 year logging lease that would have allowed Canadian Forestry Products to log a 49,700 hectare tract inside Wood Buffalo National Park in northeastern Alberta. Our lawyers argued that logging in the park was inconsistent with the government’s public trust duty to maintain it. The case never went to trial. Instead, the federal government capitulated and changed its policy to prevent future logging in national parks.

Wood Buffalo National Park. Photo: Pecold via Shutterstock
Alberta
Victory
Court win halts logging in Wood Buffalo National Park
CPAWS v. Wood Buffalo National Park et al.
January 2, 1992