This report has examined the conflicts that arise between the resource extraction from, and protection of, Canada's wilderness

Issues, management techniques and conflict solutions seen have included:

• Legal protection of wilderness with legislation
• Court action by various parties to uphold such legislation
• The positive and negative effects of First Nation land claims on the legal protection of Canadian wilderness
• Coalitions between various wilderness user groups including the recreation and tourism industry, First Nation communities, Federal and Provincial government departments and environmental organisations, united against the resource extraction industry

Yet these very user groups are often to be found embroiled in their own conflicts in other wilderness areas in the country

Each of the interest groups listed has justifications for its set of activities, and arguments for why its particular use of the Canadian wilderness should be given priority over the others

This report, along with many previous studies, has been unable to rank the various uses of the Canadian wilderness in order of 'worthiness', as the reletive social, economic and environmental merits of each are not easy to judge

Such classification may be unnecessary however. Canada contains a vast quantity of relatively unspoilt wilderness. With cooperation and understanding it should be possible for each use of the environment, including resource extraction, to be carried out with minimum impacts on other wilderness users