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Canfor Limits Alberta Logging on Caribou Concerns

March 13, 2005

Vancouver, BC - Environmentalists hailed a decision by Canfor Corp. on Thursday to defer logging in a region of Alberta's foothills that is home to a threatened caribou herd.

The company has agreed to put logging and road-building in the Little Smokey region south of Grande Prairie, Alberta, on hold for two years while the province completes its plan for protecting the area's woodland caribou.

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