A new national inventory for Canada: The need is now!

Abstract

Canadian forestry is facing currently a concentrated attack on La foresterie au Canada fait face actuellement a une attaque conits practices to the extent that our markets are being threatened.centree sur ses pratiques aun point tel que nos marches sont menTo counter this threat and deal with public environmental conacCs. Afin de contrer cette menace, le Canada a elabore une cerns, Canada has developed a series of criteria and indicators that krie de criteres et d'indicateurs qui permettront de quantifier les will quantify those forestry practices which have an effect on the pratiques foresteres qui ont un effet sur la durabilite de nos sustainability of our forests and all their attendant resources. This for& et sur toutes les ressources qui s'y rattachent. Cette approach will require inventory information that is not currentapproche necessitera de l'information en provenance d'inventaires ly available. A national multi-resource inventory designed specifqui ne sont pas actuellement disponibles. Un inventaire nationically to provide information at the national level will be needal multi-ressources conqu spkcifiquement pour fournir de l'infored and is feasible and cost-effective. A cooperative multi-agency mation a l'echelle nationale sera requis et peut btre rCali& tout approach such as that used by the recent BC Resource Inventory en etant d'un cotit acceptable. Un approche cooperative impliquant Committee is recommended as a starting point. Technical experts plusieurs orgauismes telle cele u W e par le recent. Comitk d'invenfrom relevant and interested federal and provincial agencies taire des ressources de la C.-B. est recommandee en tant que point should be invited to participate in formulating and expediting such de %art. Les experts techniques des organismes f e h u x et provina program.ciaux impliqks et interesses devraient btre invites a participer a la formulation et a la realisation d'un tel programme.

Monitoring Canada's forests: The National Forest Inventory

“…CanFI, based on provincial and territorial inventories of varying standards, coverages and ages, cannot adequately address increasingly complex and detailed reporting needs (Barker et al 1996). A new National Forest Inventory (NFI) has been designed and is being implemented to meet demands for additional forest resources information.…”