Yes, there is some recovery due to better forest management. But compared to a few hundred years ago it is still quite meager and I suspect it will never go back to where it was as long as the economy depends in some small part on logging.<p>I&#x27;ve seen an old map of Canada from the Hudson Bay company days. It was a very thin line of settlements just North of the border, and then this vast white outline inscribed with &#x27;Immense Forests&#x27;.<p>Driving around Ranger Lake in Northern Ontario (be sure you take enough gas with you) is a really nice way to see Canada with different eyes. Plenty of logging there too but the feeling of not having a settlement near you for 75 km or so in any direction is quite a strange one in the Western world. (Or at least, it was for me)