Since 2016, Alberta has harvested approximately 20 million cubic metres of timber each year, which is enough to fill 8,000 Olympic swimming pools, but the proportion of that from salvaged logging can vary, according to data from the Alberta government. Some years, fire-killed trees make up less than one per cent of the total harvest, but some years it’s substantially more. Between May, 2019 to April, 2020, fire-killed trees were almost 20 per cent of the total harvest.
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