Forest Management License 3 overlays most of the southwest forested area in Manitoba. This 5,863 square kilometer FML is controlled by Louisiana-Pacific. Duck Mountain Provincial Park lies entirely within FML 3. Roughly 47% of Duck Mountain is available to be clearcut logged.

Louisiana-Pacific has a terrible environmental track record. A Louisiana-Pacific plant in the united states was given the largest-ever pollution fine--$11.1 million—for toxins from one of its U.S. plants. A former CEO of Louisiana-Pacific was quoted as saying about the forests:
“We need everything out…We log to infinity. Because we need it all. It’s ours. It’s out there, and we need it all. Now.”
--then Louisiana-Pacific CEO Harry Merlo

Louisiana-Pacific’s long-term tenure contract over this FML ended in 2004. The corporation has been essentially operating illegally ever since, with the provincial government allowing them to continue.

The provincial government must remove Duck Mountain Provincial Park from Forest Management License 3 when any new forest tenure contract is signed.