. Annual report. Alberta. Alberta Forestry, Lands and Wildlife; Forests and forestry; Public lands; Wildlife conservation; Natural resources. i t \\ rs t s Alberta hrest Service Timber Management Alberta's productive and potentially-productive forest lands cover approximately 183,000 square kilometres and 20,000 square kilometres, respectively. Based on the provincial inventory, Alberta has approximately billion cubic metres of standing coniferous and deciduous timber. Alberta's forest industry is a well-established and thriving contributor to the economy of the province. The industry is a
. Annual report. Alberta. Alberta Forestry, Lands and Wildlife; Forests and forestry; Public lands; Wildlife conservation; Natural resources. i t \\ rs t s Alberta hrest Service Timber Management Alberta's productive and potentially-productive forest lands cover approximately 183,000 square kilometres and 20,000 square kilometres, respectively. Based on the provincial inventory, Alberta has approximately billion cubic metres of standing coniferous and deciduous timber. Alberta's forest industry is a well-established and thriving contributor to the economy of the province. The industry is a major exporter of high-quality softwood lumber and bleached kraft pulp. Recent developments in the province, such as oriented strandboard and medium density fibreboard along with chemi-thermo-mechanical pulp (CTMP), have resulted in improved use of the overall timber resource, thereby obtaining greater productivity from the forests. DeciduOUS Timber Harvest Thousand Cubic Metres 1600 1400 (200 1000 800 600 400 200. 85/86 86/87 87/88 88/89 89/90 Source Albert! Forest Service Timber Dispositions Issued 1989-90 Type Number Issued Coniferous Timber Harvest Thousand Cubic Metres Forest Management Agreement 9000 - (Alberta Newsprint, Daishowa) 2 Coniferous Timber Quota (CTQ) 7 8000 - Deciduous Timber Allocation (DTA) 'S . - • 0 Licences: 7000 - Coniferous, CTQ 29 Deciduous, DTA 0 ? 6000 - Commercial Timber Permits: 5000 - Coniferous (green) 74 Coniferous jdead/damaged) 3 - 4000 - Deciduous (green) 6 3000 - Deciduous (dead/damaged) . 2 Local Timber Permits 1,146 2000 - Forest Product Tags 21,729 Christmas Tree Permits 7,996 1000 - Total Timber Dispositions Issued 30,994 0 -. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Alberta. Alberta Forestry, Lands and Wildlife. Edmonton, Alta. : Alberta Forestry, Lands an
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