Objective:

The purpose of this Working Group is:

• to lead collaboration and relationship building,
• to set national forest-innovation related priorities
• to develop national forest innovation agenda, and
• to initiate infrastructural / governance reform.

The CCFM Innovation WG 's goal is to optimize the functioning of the Canadian forest innovation system.

The co-chairs are Doug Konkin, Deputy Minister for British Columbia and Jim Farrell, Assistant Deputy Minister for Natural Resources Canada's Canadian Forest Service. The secretariat is provided by the Canadian Forest Service.

Contact:

Kathryn Buchanan, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada (kathryn.buchanan@NRCan.gc.ca)