Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests Tenure, Stumpage Fees, and Forest Practices

Of Canada’s 402 million hectares of forestland, more than
three quarters are provincially owned. Provincial forest policies are
thus crucial for encouraging sustainable management of the nation’s
forests as well as for promoting success in Canada’s wood-product
manufacturing sector. Forest tenures, which allow private companies to
manage public forest resources, are the key policy tool that provinces
use to balance the requirements of sustainable management with the
economic concerns of the forest industry.

Policies for Sustainably Managing Canada’s Forests
provides forest managers, policy-makers, scholars, and students with
the information and concepts to critically examine Canada’s
complex forest tenure systems. The authors, all experts on forest
tenure, examine tenure arrangements, stumpage fees and other forest
practices to assess how well different provincial schemes achieve the
goals of sustainable forest management. They identify essential policy
attributes that could be used to guide tenure reform, consider
potential barriers that could prevent meaningful change, and offer
practical means of overcoming these obstacles.

By providing an up-to-date comparative examination of contemporary
provincial forestry policies, this volume addresses a pressing need for
information about the strengths and weaknesses of various forest tenure
policies. It will be an indispensable tool for shaping future
sustainable forest management.

Martin K. Luckert is a professor in the Department
of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of
Alberta. David Haley is a professor emeritus in the
Department of Forest Resources Management at the University of British
Columbia. George Hoberg is a professor in the
Department of Forest Resources Management at the University of British
Columbia.