Western boreal forest vision plan /
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TextPublication details: 1999. Stonewall, MB : Ducks Unlimied Canada.Description: Various pagings : ill. ; 28 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - AND
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"April 30, 1999."
The Western Boreal Forest is a vast, and as yet largely unspoiled region that is home to some 13 million breeding ducks and a myriad of other wildlife. Unfortunately, this remote and long-secure reservoir of waterfowl production that Ducks Unlimited and other conservation agencies have largely taken for granted can be ignored no longer. The resources of the region are under siege from oil and gas production,forestry, mining, changing climate and other development pressures. A wholesale transformation of the WBF is occurring and at an alarming rate. Scaup populations, >70% of which breed north of the prairies are at a record low, breeding sea ducks are declining, geographic shifts in waterbirds are occurring, and no one knows why.