Ontario and Sustainable Forest Management

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Ontario and Sustainable Forest Management
Presented at the EOSD Introductory Workshop March
11, 1999
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Topics

• Organization
• Business Drivers
• Related Initiatives
• Remote Sensing Activities

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Ministry of Natural Resources

• Science and Information Resources
• Natural Resource Management
• Corporate Services
• Field Services

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Goal Statement

• MNRs commitment to achieving sustainability is
  captured in our goal statement within the Policy
  Framework for Sustainable Forests which reads
• To ensure the long-term health of our forest
  ecosystems for the benefit of the local and
  global environments, while enabling present and
  future generations to meet their material and
  social needs.

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Forest Management Branch

• Forest Health and Silviculture
• Forest Evaluation and Standards
• Forest Program Development
• Forest Industry

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Natural Resources Information Branch

• Information Planning and Business Consulting
• Data Administration
• Information Access
• Office of the Surveyor General
• Information Systems (Ptb SSM)
• Geomatics and Data Acquisition Services

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Science Development and Transfer Branch

• Forest Science
• Wildlife and Natural Heritage Science
• Aquatic Ecosystems Science
• Boreal Science
• South-Central Science

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Business Drivers

• Class Environmental Assessment for Timber
  Management on Crown Lands in Ontario (1987-94)
• Policy Framework for Sustainable Forests (1993)
• Crown Forest Sustainability Act (1995)
• Forest Resources Assessment Policy

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Related Initiatives

• Criteria and Indicators
• Development of a Framework to Evaluate Forest
  Sustainability
• Hierarchical Ecological Framework
• Inventory, Assessment and Monitoring
• National Forest Information System/ National
  Forest Inventory

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Remote Sensing Activities

• Capacity
• Land Cover
• High Resolution Land Cover
• Depletion Mapping using Radarsat
• BioIndicators of Forest Sustainability
• North of 51 mapping

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