What is the relationship between harvesting and deforestation?
Harvesting removes trees from the forest, but when sustainable forest management is practised, as in Canada, the forest is immediately encouraged to regrow. In many parts of Canada, regrowth following harvesting is actively assisted by tree planting programs. Provinces have legislated standards to ensure that forests are regrown following harvest on public lands. In contrast, deforestation is the permanent clearing of forest and conversion of the land to another land use, such as agriculture, roads, or municipal development, which does not involve forest.
