What is the Government of Alberta doing about the MPB infestation?
The Government of Alberta has developed a Mountain Pine Beetle Action Plan that addresses the effects of the mountain pine beetle on the social, environmental and economic values of Alberta’s forests. The plan outlines three strategies: the beetle strategy, the pine strategy and the salvage strategy. The beetle strategy involves cutting and burning single infested trees or harvesting stands with infested trees to help control the beetle population. The pine strategy involves harvesting susceptible pine stands to prevent the spread of the infestation by reducing the food source for the beetle. As part of the pine strategy, government has asked forest companies to focus their harvesting plans on highly susceptible stands in their Forest Management Agreement areas. The beetle and pine strategies are both currently being implemented. The salvage strategy will be implemented if the pine and beetle strategies are not effective. The salvage strategy is used to recover the fibre from dead or d
