Enhance Dialogue in Science Priority Setting
- improving linkages between forest policy makers, forest practitioners and science providers
- ensuring relevancy
- supporting timely products
- developing practical solutions
- working across all agencies
Foster Forest Science that Supports a Sustainable, Predictable and Affordable Wood Supply
- science that supports enhanced forest productivity (ie. volume & quality) (eg. growth & yield, tree improvement, development of new silvicultural practices)
- science that reduces uncertainty relating to the application of forest management guides (eg. research projects that will improve knowledge base relating to forest management guides - reduce the 'precautionary principle')
Grow in Accordance with Partner Needs and Sector Opportunities Seeking an Annual Project Target Level of $2 Million
- support Forest Co-op objectives through strategic partnerships of membership
- seek leverage opportunities to enhance core funding
Maintain a Broad Representation of Membership (Intent: A membership that represents forest resource stakeholders in Ontario)
- enhancing membership, strategic alliances and collaborative partnerships. Strength of the Forest Co-op - the development of partnerships that: build trust and respect, promote shared accountability, produce economies of scale
Focus on Forest Science which will Reduce Uncertainties Associated with Forest Management Decisions. (To improve the quality of forest management decisions through the increased understanding of forest values and their appropriate protection and / or sustainable management)
- science that improves basic knowledge concerning a specific forest value
- science that improves forecasting, modeling and scenario analysis capabilities
- science that determines, or credibly estimates, the impact of forest management activities on particular forest values
Enhance Forest Technology / Knowledge Transfer & Implementation
- to promote the use of new science to effect change in forest policy & practice
- to ensure research is relevant and the investment is justified
- to promote best practices on the ground
- to build social credibility