Paul Griss - Pollution Probe

Model Forest Program• Announced in 1992 as a Green Plan commitment.• National competition held to select ten sites toreceive federal funding.• Not “models” per se but partnerships to experimentwith new approaches that could enable some toevolve into “models” of sustainable forestmanagement.• Federal and provincial governments, industry,universities, First Nations, NGOs all engaged.• Some succeeded and some failed, but a strongCanadian network and an international network stillexist – all linked through a domestic (CFS) and aninternational (IDRC) secretariat.