Spray Lake Sawmills (SLS) is the only sawmill logging in the Crowsnest Forest. Its mill is located in Cochrane, west of Calgary, Alberta.

Eighty-seven lumber retailers in southwest Alberta received letters asking them to decline selling SLS wood from the Crowsnest Forest and instead sell Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified wood. Citizens are also asked to check their local retailer and to email the Alberta Foothills Network to ask the retailer to sell FSC certified wood instead.

"Southern Alberta isn't short of fence posts or lumber. It's short of the three big Ws: water, wildlife habitat and wildlands, including for outdoor recreation and tourism," observes Dianne Pachal of Sierra Club Canada.

The initial round of public input on a plan for the South Saskatchewan region found the majority of respondents want clear-cut logging ended throughout the region. They placed tourism and recreation as second only to agriculture for future economic growth in the region, with logging last.