Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner says the government should decide to end logging in Algonquin provincial park which sits north and northeast of Bancroft.
In his annual released today, Commissioner Gord Miller pointed out that logging is banned in all of the other 338 provincial parks in Ontario.
The Environmental Commissioner says there are more than two thousand kilometres of logging roads in Algonquin Park and several thousand kilometres more of abandoned ones.
Her says these roads cause a number of problems in the Park, damaging habitat, harming wildlife and acting as pathways for invasive species.
Miller says logging in Algonquin is unnecessary, as there is an ample wood supply in the areas outside the park.