STRENGTH IN NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR’S FOREST COMMUNITIES
Model Forest of Newfoundland & Labrador 19-21 West Street, PO Box 68 Corner Brook, NL A2H 6C3
Tel: (709) 637-7300 Fax: (709) 634-0255 wnmf@mfnl.ca www.mfnl.ca
Photos courtesy of: Model Forest of NL, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, NL Department of Natural Resources, & Corner Brook Pulp & Paper Ltd.
BUILDING SUSTAINABLE FOREST COMMUNITIES
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odel Forest of Newfoundland & Labrador is a partnership of communities, industries, organizations and governments working together to help build our province’s forest-based communities. Our partners have a shared vision of strong communities equipped and empowered to sustain our forest sector into the future.
Become a Model Forest Partner
There are nine areas of participation in the Model Forest Partnership:
Marketing Affiliate Project Management Community Awareness Knowledge Transfer Financial Municipal Provincial Federal Academia/ Educational Institutions
The forest sector defines many of our province’s communities and the hard-working, determined people who call them home. Forest resources are at the heart of our economy through pulp and paper production, sawmilling, lumber and other forest product development, and tourism and recreational ventures.
All across Canada, the forest sector is dealing with rising energy costs, a strong dollar, global competition, and reduced timber supplies. As Canada’s forest-based industries and economies rise or fall, so too do the communities that exist because of the forest and the work it provides to thousands of Canadians.
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hange is bringing opportunity to forest-based communities, where people with experience, skills and knowledge are the forest sector’s greatest asset in changing times.
MODEL FOREST OF NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR IS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE CANADIAN MODEL FOREST NETWORK The Model Forest of Newfoundland and Labrador has been provided with partial funding from CFS-NRCan as part of its Forest Communities Program