What is the Canadian Model Forest Network?
The Canadian Model Forest Network (CMFN) is a network of 14 model forest sites across Canada. Each local site involves numerous partners who all work towards sustainable landscape management. Partners include, forest companies, Aboriginal communities, private citizens, parks, environmental groups, governments and universities. As a network the CMFN collectively works to raise the profile of model forests in Canada and around the world and coordinates relevant national initiatives.
There are 11 Model Forests in Canada, each one being part of the Canadian Model Forest Network (CMFN). Created by the Government of Canada through the Canadian Forest Service and funded under Canada’s Model Forest Program, the CMFN is the network that links together Canadian Model Forests. The network allows Model Forests across the country to share ideas and communicate methods of sustainable forest management. The CMFN also provides direction for activities that occur at a national level or between Canadian Model Forests and Model Forests located elsewhere in the world. What is a “Model Forest”? A Model Forest is a partnership of public and private landowners, government, industry, universities, Aboriginal communities and other organizations that have a common interest in achieving SFM within a local, defined forest area. Each Model Forest is run by a not-for-profit organization and, except for a small administrative staff, all those involved in the Model Forest not only donate their
