Manitoba is the only jurisdiction in the country reviewing the idea of creating protected areas within provincial parks.
Most parks have or allow logging and mining licences.
The logging licence to Louisiana Pacific will include all of the Duck Mountain Provincial Park. The planned clear-cutting, of up to 900,000 cubic metres of wood annually, is also slated to take place up along the north border of the Riding Mountain National Park. Manitoba is also the only province where an annual slaughter of pelicans and cormorants, thought mistakenly to be impacting commercial fishing, is tolerated. The new boom logging previously commercially undesirable species is being brought about through a particularly polluting technology, the oriented strand board mill. The aspen forests which will be felled at an alarming rate along the Manitoba and Saskatchewan border are important habitat for neo-tropical birds.