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Clearcutting and Logging: The War of the Woods
Vancouver's Clayoquot Sound. Manitoba's boreal forests. The Central Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. These picturesque locales have served as the battlegrounds over the controversy of clearcutting — the logging practice that strips a forest bare by cutting every single tree down. On one side are the environmentalists. On the other, logging companies. In the middle are native people. The fate of Canada's old-growth forests and the forestry industry as a whole rests in the balance in the 'war of the woods.'		Educational activities about Clearcutting and Logging: The War of the Woods

	Conserving Canada's natural resources		Crisis in Canadian forestry		The replanting of a nation
	CBC Radio takes listeners behind the scenes at a tree farm operation in Quebec. (Radio; runs 27:16)		An in-depth look at the disastrous state of Canada's biggest industry. (Radio; runs 23:43)		The Journal looks at the growing need for reforestation in Canada. (TV; runs 15:00)

	How will the deer and brook trout survive?		'You do not treat Mother Earth this way'		A little place called Clayoquot Sound
	Clearcutting in northern New Brunswick leaves wildlife activists and outdoorsmen outraged. (TV; runs 22:59)		David Suzuki lends his support to the fight against clearcutting in Saskatchewan. (TV; runs 1:48)		Logging of ancient, old-growth forests on picturesque Vancouver Island draws global attention. (Radio; runs 7:33)

	The war in the Clayoquot woods is over		Eco-war waged in Newfoundland		Providing jobs versus proper forest management
	The B.C. government accepts the recommendations of an environmental report that ends all clearcutting in Clayoquot Sound. (TV; runs 2:14)		There are only a few forests left on Newfoundland's Central Avalon Peninsula. The government wants most of the area clearcut but others want it preserved as a wilderness. (TV; runs 8:33)		A look at clearcutting practices in the boreal forests of Manitoba. (TV; runs 9:30)

	The fight over 'Spirit Bear'		A unique turn of events in Clayoquot Sound		A new era of 'good wood'
	The deep woods of British Columbia once again become a battleground as protestors and environmentalists try to stop the clearcutting of the Great Bear rainforest. (TV; runs 2:23)		Environmentalists and the forestry industry are on the same side for once as a native controlled logging company starts selective harvesting of old-growth trees in Clayoquot Sound. (TV; runs 2:32)		Forest certification and the stringent standards of the Forest Stewardship Council bring about major changes to the Canadian forestry industry. (TV; runs 10:51)

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