Canadian Forest Service
Client-Focussed Organization
Forging Strategic Alliances and Partnerships
The CFS has built a solid reputation for its scientific excellence and
its ability to forge strategic alliances and partnerships with a wide
spectrum of forest stakeholders and partners. Its client groups and partners
include provincial governments; other federal departments; forest industries;
Aboriginal communities; academia; labour groups; private woodlot owners;
and environmental, conservation and special interest groups. As a national
facilitator, the CFS uses a partnership approach to effectively coordinate
and integrate the environmental, social and economic values of Canadians
to achieve sustainable forest management.
The CFS will continue to forge strategic alliances and partnerships.
For example, it will make special collaborative arrangements with the
Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM) to meet the objectives identified
in Canada's Framework for FederalProvincial/Territorial Cooperation in
Forestry (1995), and it will work with the National Forest Strategy Coalition
(NFSC) to develop and implement a renewed Strategy.
The CFS will also work in collaboration with federal advisory bodies,
such as the NABFOR, to ensure that CFS research programs remain focused
on strategic national forest research needs, and it will work with FSAC
to ensure that federal forest policy development initiatives address forest
industry concerns and issues.
"Committed to listening to our clients."
- Aboriginals
- Provinces
- NGO's
- Universities
- Industry
- ENGO's
- CCFM
- OGD
Provinces
CFS works with the provinces through the Canadian Council of Forest
Ministers (CCFM) in a number of areas including Model Forests and First
Nations.
Provincial Research Councils
Research Institutes and Agencies
- Forintek Canada Corp.
- Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC)
- Paprican
- Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre
- Canadian Wildland Fire Management agencies
Advisory Bodies
The Forest Sector Advisory Council (FSAC) is a partnership among forest
sector representatives, labour and environmental groups.
The National Advisory Board on Forest Research (NABFOR) provides advice
to the Minister of Natural Resources Canada on science and technology
(S&T) issues of importance to the forest sector.
FORCAST, a coalition for the advancement of S&T in the forest
sector.
Funding Partners
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Biotechnology Human Resources Council (BHRC)
Non-Government Organizations
Tree Canada Foundation
Network Centres of Excellence — Sustainable Forest Management
Environmental Non–government Organizations
International
- United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Forests
- North American Forestry Commission (reports on the state of North
American Forests)
- IEA
- Criteria and Indicators
Interdepartmental Initiatives
- ENFOR — established in 1978 as part of a federal interdepartmenta
initiative to develop renewable energy sources.
- Environment Canada (Biodiversity, Climate Change)
- Agriculture and Agri–Food Canada
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency (Exotic Pests)
- Industry Canada (Biotechnology)
- Parks Canada
- Fisheries and Oceans
- Foreign Affairs and International Trade
- Indian and Northern Affairs (First Nations Forestry Program)
- 5NR
- Federal Partners in Technology Transfer
- Canadian Technology Network
- National Technology Index
- Universities
Industry
- FORCAST
- Partners
in Forest Science & Technology
Universities
Examples of the way in which we work
- Advanced Forest Technologies (OGD's, provinces, US, Sweden, U of O,
UBC, Industry)
- BOREAS
- Forest Ecosystem Research Network of Sites (FERNS)
- First Nations Forestry Program
- Model Forest Program
Highlights of successful partnerships
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