Forestry Law, for purposes of this Directory, is defined in the widest sense in order to identify those firms capable of providing a full service to industry clients. As such, the practice area includes purchase and sale of forest companies, mergers and reorganizations of forest companies, transfer of forest tenures, representing forest company issuers on public financings, log purchase and sale contracts, logging contracts and contracts respecting other phases of timber harvesting; all manner of statutory and regulatory compliance under specific forestry legislation; all aspects of environmental law relating to the industry; advising and defending with respect to prosecutions under environmental and forestry legislation; aboriginal law matters relating to the industry; and all manner of negotiations, representations and submissions to various government ministries, boards and administrative tribunals or bodies.