| The Model Forest
Program is an initiative aimed at building partnerships at the
local, national and international levels in order to find practical
solutions to sustainable forest management issues.
The
program has established a network af eleven model forests
that represent the principal forest regions in Canada.
Natural Resources
Canada’s
Canadian Forest Service is planning to launch a
Forest Communities Program in April of 2007. This
new program will appeal to local organizations
across Canada interested in assisting resource-based
communities in the development of innovative approaches
to meet the challenges of forest sector transition
and forest resource sustainability.
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| Objectives |
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- Accelerate the implementation of sustainable
development in the practice of forestry, in particular the
concept of integrated resource management;
- Apply new and innovative approaches, procedures,
techniques, and concepts in the management of forests;
- Test and demonstrate the best sustainable
forestry practices utilizing the most advanced technology
anf forestry practices available.
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| Projects in Quebec |
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- Lower
St. Lawrence Model Forest "An inhabited forest,
model of sustainable development" : forestry tenant
farming, small private forests;
- Waswanipi Cree Model Forest: Aboriginal forestry.
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| For more informations |
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Jacques Robert
Phone: (418) 721-5350 - Rimouski
FAX: (418) 722-3285 - Rimouski
E-Mail:
Canadian
Model Forest Network Web site (Ottawa)
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