Innovation Alberta Featured Theme:

SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT NETWORK

"The strongest, non-government, non-industry, multi-disciplinary national forestry research enterprise in Canada."

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The Sustainable Forest Management Network promotes cross-discipline research to help us develop a better understanding of our forests and the interconnectedness of ecological, social and economic perspectives. In the year ahead, Innovation Alberta will profile some of the leading edge research by SFMN scientists and post those stories and related information to this theme page.

Research covers many disciplines

At any given time there are 75 to 100 top level researchers working in the fields of ecology, biology, economics, policy, anthropology, and engineering. Key sector partners include Aboriginal people, government and industry. Communication between the researchers and the various players is an important component of the network model.

The following criteria is used to determine which projects will receive SFMN funding. The projects must be ones:

that are at the forefront of research by national and international standards
that collaborate with companion projects within research groups
that collaborate with SFMN partners designing the research objectives and plans and share resources to execute the projects
that contribute to site and research group networking within the national collaboration of SFMN partners and researchersCollaboration the key to success

The Sustainable Forest Management Network operates with a $7 million dollar budget. Fifty-five percent comes from the Network of Centres of Excellence program. The remaining forty-five percent is contributed by SFMN partners.

Governments

Networks of Centres of Excellence / Government of Canada
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Government of Alberta(Alberta Innovation and Science)(Alberta Sustainable Resource Development)
Government of Manitoba (Manitoba Conservation)
Government of Ontario (Ministry of Natural Resources)
Gouvernement du Québec (Ministère des Ressources naturelles)
Parks Canada (Ecological Integrity Branch)

Industries

Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
Ainsworth Lumber Company Ltd.
Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc.
Bowater Incorporated
Canadian Forest Products Ltd.
Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd.

J.D. Irving, Ltd.
Louisiana-Pacific Canada Ltd.
Tembec Inc.
Tolko Industries Ltd.
Weyerhaeuser Company

Institutions

University of Alberta (host)
University of British Columbia
Concordia University
University of Calgary
Dalhousie University
University of Guelph
Lakehead University
University of Lethbridge
McGill University
University of Manitoba
Memorial University
University of New Brunswick
Ryerson Polytechnic University
Université de Moncton

University of Ottawa
Université de Montréal
University of Regina
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
University of Saskatchewan
Université du Québec à Montréal
University of Toronto
Univesité du Québec à Rimouski
University of Victoria
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
University of Waterloo
University of Western Ontario
Université de Sherbrooke
University of Winnipeg
Université Laval

First Nations

Gwich'in Renewable Resource Board
Heart Lake First Nations

Little Red River Cree / Tallcree First Nations
Moose Cree First Nation

Not for Profit

Ducks Unlimited

Affiliated Members

Canadian Forest Service
Forest Ecosystem Science Co-operative Inc.
Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada

Lake Abitibi Model Forest
Manitoba Model Forest
National Aboriginal Forestry Association

For more information on specific projects, you can check out www.ualberta.ca/sfm

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