Porcupine Provincial Forest

Porcupine Provincial Forest is a protected boreal landscape in Canada spanning the Porcupine Hills along the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border, near the southern edge of the boreal forest and part of the Manitoba Escarpment. Its modern conservation history began after timber depletion and fires in eastern Canada prompted federal protection of western forests. Established in 1906 under the first Dominion Forest Reserves Act, it was administered from Ushta with rangers, cabins, stables, and fire towers in place by 1914. After Saskatchewan’s creation in 1905 and the 1930 transfer of natural resources to the province, the forest remained important as an early protected landscape at the prairie-boreal transition.

Saskatchewan · Canada