A major American paper company has decided to stop using fiber from the Whiskey Jack Forest north of Kenora.
Boise says it will honor a request from the Grassy Narrows First Nation, which wants to end clear-cut logging on its traditional land use territory.
Boise gets its wood fiber for its International Falls mill from Abitibi-Bowater, which has a licence to log in the Whiskey Jack Forest.
A confidential mediation effort to resolve the logging dispute has been going on for months under the direction of former supreme court justice Frank Iaccabucci.
Boise says its decision is an effort to support those negotiations.
