Creating forestry jobs in northern Alberta Alberta awarded 72,000 cubic metres of annual allowable cut to Norbord Inc. and Bigstone Cree Nation through an open, competitive process. Some parts of this page will not display. JavaScript is not available in this browser or may be turned off. Aerial view of part of Forest Management Unit G16, about 70 kilometres northwest of Grande Prairie. Last summer, Alberta’s government opened two competitions for timber quotas in northern Alberta as part of the Forest Jobs Action Plan. These timber allocations are part of the annual allowable cut (AAC) but had not yet been issued to an operator.