As a key pathway to enable the ongoing transformation of the Canadian forest industry, this Council identified innovation as a priority area for action in 2013-2014. This white paper, consisting of lessons learned from other countries and other industrial sectors, was designed to complement the 2015 Compendium of Current Forest Sector Innovation Initiatives, with a […]
This Compendium strives to provide a mechanism to communicate best practices for government support for industrial innovation across jurisdictions, and encourage collaboration on joint initiatives. It was developed based on information submitted by participating jurisdictions.
This guide was developed to ensure that forest pest managers use a consistent approach to PRA across Canada. The overall purpose of a PRA is to identify the risk to specific values (whether they be forest products, wildlife habitat or watershed health) and to determine mitigation options, if required.
This report is the pest risk analysis (PRA) Nova Scotia conducted in response to new brown spruce longhorn beetle finds outside the containment area. The PRA uses the Risk Analysis Framework developed as part of the National Forest Pest strategy under the CCFM.
This Governance Model has been designed to align with the 2013/14 strategic priorities of both the Wildland Fire Management Working Group (WFMWG) of the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM) and the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC).
The Wildland Fire Management Working Group (WFMWG) requested the development of a report for review and analysis of specified terminology and data standards in use across Canada’s wildland fire agencies. The objective was to develop recommendations for moving towards more common language, terminology and data standards to enable improved understanding and data sharing across the […]
