1. Forest Management Planning Content or Process
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2. Why am I an expert? 10 years as an area forester in the field.
5 Timber management plans (TMP)
Manual writing team for the current FMPM
Wrote 1 FMP, supervised 10 including 4 currently in production.
I haven’t seen the field for more than a day or two in 10 years

3. A Decade Ago Little or no public involvement. Limited technology.
Inventories were commercial tree cover focused.
Harvest was labour intensive and equipment unsophisticated.
Silviculture was the responsibility of government.
Little or no documentation of success or failure.
Foresters cared and spend most of their time in the field.

4. Today Intense public involvement Advanced technology
Inventories are forest ecology based
Advanced science
Mechanized operations
Silviculture done and paid for by industry
Extensive documentation
Foresters care but are in the office

5. The Forest Management Environment
Legislation
Government Policy
Public Opinion
Business Principles
Mill Technology
Forest Biology and Ecology

6. Policy
We operate on public land using a resource belonging to the public of Ontario.
The MNR represents the interests of that public.
From time to time they set policy and objectives for the management and use of that resource.
“The Ontario Living Legacy” is the most resent.

7. Legislation Crown Forest Sustainability Act - CFSA
Class Environmental Assessment - EA
Forest Management Planning Manual
Silviculture Manual
Forest Information Manual
Scaling Manual
Other Acts
Other acts include
Navigable Waters Act
Fisheries Act
Endangered Species Act
Labor and health and safety
Forest Fire prevention act
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8. Obligations Under an SFL
Forest resource inventory.
Forest management plans.
Annual operating reports.
Five-year “State of the Forest” report.
Regenerated to agreed standards.
Independent forest management audits.
License extended for an additional five years based on meeting standards.

9. What’s In a Plan? Get Organized
Guidelines (marten, fisheries, moose, caribou)
Inventories
Values (trapping, remote tourism, mining)
Direction from other sources (MNR, Bowater)
Native Background Report

10. What’s In a Plan? Get Some Help
Planning Team
Local Citizens’ Committee
Invitation to Participate
Plan Advisors
Anyone else who comes by
Whether you want it or not.
And
It won’t be enough.

11. What’s In a Plan? Set some rules and direction
Terms of Reference
Direction
Report of Past Operations
Independent Audits

12. What’s In a Plan? Objectives and Strategies
Are the basis for the rest of the planning effort.
Must address at a minimum:
Forest Diversity
Provision for values dependent on forest cover.
Provision of socio-economic needs and benefits
Forest renewal and silviculture
Strategies identify how these objectives will be delivered.
Targets are required for all objectives.

13. What’s In a Plan? Alternatives and Models
Various alternatives are developed.
Each is modeled.
The outputs are evaluated against objective targets.
A preferred alternative is selected.
All harvest and silviculture activity levels are driven by this alternative.

14. Now the Work Begins For the next 27 - 36 months your life will revolve around the plan
An FMP is structured around two things:
A public consultation schedule
A written text, accompanying documentation and maps

15. Public Consultation Plan your holidays around this.

16. Text and Documentation You will need 90, 3” binders and 500 lbs
Text and Documentation You will need 90, 3” binders and 500 lbs. of paper.
Text and tables
Maps - 50 different types and over 1000 total
Areas of Concern documents - at least 1000
Roads documents - more than 100
$ 1,000,000

17. Content
The part of the plan that will actually show up on the ground after the plan is implemented.
The silviculture strategy
Landscape pattern development.
Wildlife habitat
Balance between economics and environment

18. Content
Time will be short at all points and the default will be the process.
The plan will be a compromise.
Only the foresters on the team can ensure good content.
Someone will have to implement the plan and comply with it.
Practical in a plan is not always practical on the ground

19. Comments you will hear
It doesn’t matter we will be redoing this again in five years.
We can live with this for now.
We will use the precautionary principle
based on the information this is as good as we can do.
The model says…...

20. So why do we do this?
To set objectives, strategies and targets that will allow us to provide a variety of social, economic and ecological benefits from the forest.
To model to demonstrate that in theory we can do it.
To identify criteria and indicators which we can measure.
To provide documentation
To put forward operating plans to deliver the benefits.
To modify practices to accommodate and improve

21. Why else?
The process allows us to document and defend what we do. We can prove that we are doing what we said we would do.
The content will ensure that a healthy forest is always available for whatever future generations decide to do with them.

22. This Creates . . . Jobs - 15,300 direct, 34,400 indirect
Wages - $930,000,000
Taxes - $520,000,000
Economic benefit - $1.7 billion
Recreation opportunities
Wildlife habitat
Young forests