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Historically, the management of forest vegetation and the atmosphere have occurred in isolation. Modelling, however, suggests that boreal forests will be highly sensitive to changes in atmospheric composition, so much so that the persistence of closed forests within present boreal areas such as central Saskatchewan will depend more upon management of air than upon management of trees. This should inspire organizations responsible for the management of Canadian forests to be both advocates for, and models of, CO2 emission reductions. But data on electricity use and fossil fuel consumption are used to show CO2 emissions from a subset of private and public forest management institutions are not declining along a trajectory toward the international target of a 20% emission reduction relative to 1988 levels by the year 2005. Estimated emissions from the pulp and paper industry between 1989 and 1993 exceeded the linear reduction trajectory by 11.5% to 15.5%. Estimated emissions from Parks Canada for 1989 to 1991 exceeded this same trajectory by 4.4% to 17.7%. Despite commitments to ecosystem management approaches, there is little evidence that atmospheric considerations have been fully incorporated into the activities of forest management organizations.
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Fitzsimmons, M.J. (1995). Conserving the Boreal Forest by Shifting the Emphasis of Management Action from Vegetation to the Atmosphere. In: Apps, M.J., Price, D.T., Wisniewski, J. (eds) Boreal Forests and Global Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0942-2_3
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