Logging Road Lined With Recently Cut Trees

Terrace Bay, Ontario. Kenogami forest

A logging road, fringed with harvested trees (conifers and aspen) ready for processing.

The cutting of an old growth forest to make tissues and toilet paper is emblematic of our disposable economy. For the profit of a few, we destroy something of immense value and benefit for the many. Deforestation of boreal forests (in this case to manufacture tissue products) releases the tremendous amount of carbon stored in the foliage and soil, eliminates the ability of the system to retain water, causes erosion, and destroys habitat for animals.

The Kenogami National Forest in Canada, source of the wood for this mill, is home for a multitude of species from wolves and bears to the moss on the forest floor. It is an immensely diverse and complex ecosystem that gives us clean air and water, and it will be replaced by a monoculture of factory farmed trees and a polluted river.