Lake Louise ski resort pleads guilty to cutting down endangered trees

By Bill Graveland
Canadian Post in National Post
December 4, 2017
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, Canada West

Calgary – A world-renowned ski resort in Alberta has admitted to cutting down a stand of endangered trees, although it hasn’t been decided yet how large of a fine will have to be paid. The Lake Louise resort in Banff National Park was charged after it came to light in 2013 that employees had cut down trees, including at least 39 whitebark pine, alongside a ski run. The resort was to go to trial on Monday, but a representative pleased guilty on two charges—one under the Species at Risk Act and the other under the Canada National Parks Act.

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