FSC Forest Certification in the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Forest Region
Bancroft March 30, 2011 Sponsored by: Eastern Ontario Model Forest Forests For Seven Generations
1. Greetings 2. Housekeeping 3. Introductions •Name and location •Forest manager? Certifier? Landowner? •Particular interest •curious? •Want to get certified? •Specific Question?
FSC Forest Certification in the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Forest Region
The Evolution of Forest Certification in Ontario and beyond Tom Clark
South Central Ontario Canadian Firsts First Canadian Certificate in Canada First Public Forest in Canada First Municipality in Canada First Sustainable Forest License in Canada First Resource Manager in Canada First Umbrella Certificate
First • • • • •
Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve March 1998 30,000 ha First Canadian Certificate Complex multi-use forest – – – – –
Canopy Walks Wolf Centre Snowmobiling Hunting Submarine
Credit Haliburton Forest Website
First Public Forest • York Regional Forest – March 2000 – 2000 ha – First Municipality – First Public Forest – Heavily used by city dwellers – Movie makers – Mushroom pickers
First SFL in Canada • Westwind Forest Stewardship – First SFL in Canada – Feb 2002 – 420,000 ha certified – About 30 companies many sizes receive wood
• Followed by Nipissing Forest in 2003
Domtar Forest Resources- Trenton • • • •
First Resource Manager in Canada 2001 Laird Nelson An industrial operation reaching out to local small landowners.
A model Forest • • • • • •
Eastern Ontario Model Forest Resource Manager Cert First Umbrella Certification January 2003 40,000 ha Wide range of owners, some quite skeptical about logging in general
SILV-ECON Resource Management Consultants • • • • •
Dave Puttock February 2006 About 1000 ha. A stand alone Resource Manager Reaching an FSC milestone in making certification available to a wide range of owners.
Simcoe County • • • •
Certified in 2010 12,000 ha Flagship County Forestry Program in Ontario Using its forest to generate revenue, provide recreation, and grow the forest land base
The WORLD and beyond • Canada as teacher’s pet • Large forests • Significant contribution to non timber objectives • Semi Natural – minimal true fibre farms (plantations) • Public ownership
The base started in southern Ontario grew to be the largest contiguous FSC land base in the world.
Canadian FSC Standards Area of Forest certified by standard (millions of ha)
Boreal
Transition 40 million ha in Canada
Great Lakes Acadian West Coast
FSC needs us • Global: (Feb 2011) – 135 million ha certified – 19,749 CoC certificates – 1028 FM/CoC certificates
• Canada: (Feb2011) – 40.6 million ha certified – 1000 COC certificates – 56 FM/COC certificates
30% of the World’s FSC forest 12% of the worlds forest has any certification