The needs and perspectives of Indigenous communities are relevant to many of our management and business decisions, including the use of public land and resources. We will continue to work with local Indigenous communities to promote, increase and support their participation in the forest sector. Building and maintaining relationships is key to achieving these outcomes. As responsible stewards of Canadian forests, we are working proactively to build long-term, successful and mutually beneficial relationships with Indigenous peoples whose lands and territories overlap our operational areas.
The Crown has a duty to consult with and, where appropriate, accommodate Indigenous peoples on any decision that may adversely affect their claimed or existing Indigenous or treaty rights. This duty stems from the honor of the Crown and its unique relationship with Indigenous peoples. We have a framework that is intended to support the Crown in fulfilling its obligation to respect Indigenous rights, while continuing to acknowledge the importance of Indigenous community participation in the development and use of natural resources.
To sustainably manage our forests, it is important that we continue to learn about how our activities affect both the forest ecosystem and surrounding communities, and also how we can improve our practices using adaptive management. We frequently partner with other organizations, including universities and science-based entities, to ensure that our practices are consistent with the best available science.
One example is our support for caribou research. We have been working with government ministries and other stakeholders for more than 20 years to assist with research associated with caribou recovery. The ARCKP is a good example of a partnership between forest industry companies and the province that is focused on closing knowledge gaps on caribou, initiating on-the-ground best practices and supporting knowledge exchange.
Another example of how we support long-term research is a project that is identifying grizzly bear habitat in the western and southern portions of our operating areas in Alberta.
FRI Research coordinates this multistakeholder, multiyear research project on grizzly bears to determine long-term strategies for their conservation by mapping habitat in the forests we manage. We also have a long-term, research-focused relationship with Ducks Unlimited Canada, which has generated guiding principles for wetland stewardship and forest management, and best practices for forest wetland crossings. Additionally, we have undertaken a number of initiatives to obtain baseline information on the fish and wildlife resources within our operating areas.
Research and inventory initiatives include long-term survey programs of nocturnal raptors, songbirds, fish and furbearers. These inventories are aimed at providing benchmark data on species occurrence and distribution throughout our timberlands, as well as trends over time. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy. Timberlands Trees are a remarkable resource that, when managed responsibly, can meet a wide range of fundamental needs for people and the planet for generations to come.
Learn More. Forestry Sustainable Forestry Western U. Forests Southern U. Forests Northern U. West Log Sales U. South Log Sales. Conversely, western provinces are more focused on wood product manufacturing and market pulp. British Columbia and Alberta are two of the largest exporting provinces of softwood lumber and northern bleached softwood kraft NBSK pulp.
Further to its different industrial profile, the location of western Canada provides an advantageous access to the growing markets in Asia. The diverging profiles of these regions is expected to persist, given the differing outlooks of subsectors most traditional paper products will continue to decline, while wood products, specialty paper and bioenergy is expected to rise.
This graph displays the percentage of Canadian forest industry real gross domestic product by region for Pulp produced in the eastern provinces is mostly used directly in the domestic manufacturing of paper products, while wood pulp produced by western provinces is mostly destined for export.
This graph displays the value in billions of dollars of Canadian forest product exports in by province, sub-divided by softwood lumber, structural wood panels, newsprint, wood pulp, printing and writing paper, and other. British Columbia, Quebec, Ontario and Alberta saw the greatest exports by value, which ranged between 3. British Columbia The top export markets by value were the United States This graph displays jobs in thousands by province in , sub-divided by pulp and paper product manufacturing, wood product manufacturing, and in-forest activities.
Quebec, British Columbia, and Ontario had the highest total number of jobs, ranging between 40 and 70 thousand jobs. This constant state of shifting circumstances creates both challenges and opportunities. In particular, the rise of electronic media has resulted in deep decline for paper-based communications products—including several products such as newsprint that have traditionally been critical to the Canadian pulp and paper subsector.
In response to these challenges, the forest industry has begun to transform itself along four distinct lines: market development, operational efficiency, business process change and new product development. These include new building materials, biofuels that can substitute for fossil fuels, and biochemicals that can be used to produce bio-based pharmaceuticals, biodegradable plastics, personal care products and industrial chemicals.
Chief among these are cellulosic fibrils and nano-crystalline cellulose—next-generation pulp-based products with the potential to revolutionize the pulp and paper sector. These and other emerging technologies and business processes offer new ways of generating social, economic and environmental values for Canadians from our abundant forest resource.
They generate value from a wider range of forest products and processes than traditional milling and pulping. Whether co-located with an existing establishment or a result of a greenfield investment, these new technologies and business processes increase overall industry productivity: additional revenue streams are available from each log harvested, diversifying product lines to stabilize economic performance and boosting the share of renewable products in the marketplace.
These new technologies will also create opportunities for new entrants, enhancing competition and entrepreneurialism in the industry.
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