Published: 1994
Total Pages: 400
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A conference on timber supply in Canada had the objectives of assessing the opportunities to maintain and expand the sustainable supply of timber, and of examining how sustainable development initiatives area changing the way Canadian forests are managed. This volume contains the conference presentations, summaries of provincial timber supply status reports, and rapporteurs' reports. Topics of the presentations include investment and environmental perspectives on the demand for timber supplies, the challenge of environmental trade barriers, the influences on timber supply, ecosystem and landscape management, integrated resource management, the role of private woodlots, model forests, forest policy, and the role of aboriginals in forest management. Appendices provide the texts of the provincial and territorial timber supply status reports, which include statistics.