Who we work with

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) provides advice to the Ministers of Natural Resources and Industry to help identify priorities and develop strategies relating to the international competitiveness and performance of the sector.  It is a private sector advisory council and is comprised of representatives from the forest industry,  it's labour unions, academia, as well as aboriginal groups and environmental organizations.

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 Forum on Forest (formerly UN Intergovernmental Forum on Forests, formerly UN International 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 interdepartmental 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

• 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 Network

Highlights of successful partnerships

• Success Stories