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    FMPrinciples Haida Gwaii Community Forest Jan11 2017 PDF

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    The document outlines forest management principles for the Haida Gwaii Community Forest. It discusses stewardship of environmental and cultural values through sustainable practices and adhering to land use objectives. It also discusses generating economic benefits for local communities through employment, collaboration on planning, respecting Haida values, sound business practices, and local procurement policies. The principles are aimed at establishing a community forest that protects values for future generations and supports the local economy.

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    The document outlines forest management principles for the Haida Gwaii Community Forest. It discusses stewardship of environmental and cultural values through sustainable practices and adhering to land use objectives. It also discusses generating economic benefits for local communities through employment, collaboration on planning, respecting Haida values, sound business practices, and local procurement policies. The principles are aimed at establishing a community forest that protects values for future generations and supports the local economy.

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    FMPrinciples Haida Gwaii Community Forest Jan11 2017 PDF

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    The document outlines forest management principles for the Haida Gwaii Community Forest. It discusses stewardship of environmental and cultural values through sustainable practices and adhering to land use objectives. It also discusses generating economic benefits for local communities through employment, collaboration on planning, respecting Haida values, sound business practices, and local procurement policies. The principles are aimed at establishing a community forest that protects values for future generations and supports the local economy.

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    Forest Management Principles for the Haida Gwaii Community Forest

    January 11, 2017

    Stewardship
    Protect the environmental and cultural values in the forest for future generations through implementing
    sustainable forest practices and adhering to the Haida Gwaii Land Use Objectives Order;

    Provide lasting security and incentives for sound stewardship and long term investments through an area-
    based tenure that has a good profile of forest age and species and is reasonably proximal to the
    communities;

    Aspire to high standards in forest management and accountability through third-party certification;

    Manage the forest using innovative silviculture strategies and ecologically based forest management to
    maintain, enhance, or restore healthy forests;

    Manage commercial access to cedar to ensure its availability throughout the transition to the harvesting of
    second-growth, including managing for old-growth red and yellow cedar and fire-origin second-growth
    cedar within the timber harvesting land-base;

    Minimize wood waste and support the utilization of salvageable wood;

    Support an active role in implementing ecosystem based management to achieve an adaptive, systematic
    approach to managing human activities, that seeks to ensure the co-existence of healthy, fully functioning
    ecosystems and human communities;

    Implement forest development that complements community based tourism values;

    Contribute credible benchmark data for government to develop stumpage rates

    Benefits to the Communities


    Use the diversity of resources in the forest to generate economic benefits for communities, and offer
    employment for Haida Gwaii residents;

    Engage Haida Gwaii residents in broad level community collaboration in near term and long term forest
    management planning;

    Ensure respectful integration of Haida and community values into tenure management planning;
    Ensure that the forests are managed using sound business practices whereby profits are managed for the
    best-interests of all communities;

    Develop procurement policies that are cost effective and provide longer term opportunities for local
    suppliers;

    Provide forest access for the public through an access management strategy that ensures infrastructure is
    maintained to an extent that is appropriate to the scale and activities of the Community Forest operations;

    Explore opportunities for local value- added wood product manufacturing;

    CHN/MIEDS Forest Management Principles Towards the Establishment of a Community Forest


    Explore opportunities for education, research and testing innovative forest planning and practices,
    community resource stewardship, and climate change adaptation;

    Explore opportunities for economic diversification, such as non-timber forest products, forest carbon
    offsets, tourism, or bioenergy production;

    CHN/MIEDS Forest Management Principles Towards the Establishment of a Community Forest

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