Next SFMAC meeting: October 4, 2004 Manitou Lodge, Pine Falls

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Two-Page Summary

 

Welcome to BorealBuzz.com, a website designed for the Sustainable Forest

Management Advisory Committee for Tembec, Pine Falls. The topics of this website are based on the two topics of the upcoming SFMAC meeting: Road Access Issues and Alternative Forest Products (including non-timber forest products). These topics were raised at the previous meeting on High Conservation Value Areas and there will be further opportunity to address them at the upcoming meeting.

The information presented in this website is intended to inform, engage, and encourage reflection. It may even create a stir. Or at least remind you of something you wanted to bring up at an advisory committee meeting.

This second version is hopefully improved, based on your suggestions. There are several features to make the site easier to navigate, such as the 4 minute audio tour and links at the bottom of main topic pages pointing you to the next stop. To help keep the website relevant, questions for reflection are included throughout the site. The pictures have better resolution when you click on them, and the maps are a bit more clear.

If you are relatively new to using the Internet, it is recommended that you have a quick look at the information below then listen to this 4 minute audio tour if you can.

 

NAVIGATE THIS WEBSITE AUDIO TOUR - Click Here (4 min, 5mb) FOR BEGINNER Computer Users Read printed version of audio tour.

This website contains two major sections and many smaller ones. The main sections are Public Access and Non-Timber Forest Products.

Public Access

Three sections called Impacts, Management and Access provide background information drawn from scientific studies, government reports, Tembec reports and environmental watchdogs, all giving food for thought as you develop answers to the following questions (as stated in the agenda fo the upcoming meeting):

What is your biggest concern when it comes to forest access? What could be done to address your concerns? What are your suggestions for improving access for those people that have physical limitations?

Related Sections-

Photo gallery -The gallery has a "road" theme to match the road access section of the website, and includes photos of roads, river crossings and gates and road decommissioning.

Maps -The maps are mostly of road management plans (Happy Lake, Beaver Creek, Okimaw Lake, Rainy Lake); there are also a couple showng decommissioned and active roads throughout the entire FML.

Non-timber forest products

Gain access to a leading research report on Non-timber forest products with state-of-the-industry information for Canada, current areas of research and where to look for more information. All of this serves as background information as you develop your answers to the following questions (also posed in the agenda for the upcoming meeting):

What is your biggest concern about how forest management practices affect alternate forest products? What could be done to address your concerns?

Here are a number of "smaller" sections on the site that are worth a look...

Sustainable Forest Management Resources - A detailed collection of reports and website sources, with short summaries, from multiple perspectives (i.e. government, industry, environmental watchdog, stakeholder) all relating to sustainable forest management.

About the Sustainable Forest Management Advisory Committee (SFMAC) - A little history and a recap on the committee's Terms of Reference.

What YOU said... - Snipits and recordings of SFMAC members views on road management.

About this research- A brief overview of this graduate project out of the University of Manitoba and funded by the Sustainable Forest Management Network.

 

The following sections are available on the Internet Website version only:

Survey - The online survey is very valuable to this research and...you will really make my day if you fill it out! Please use the paper survey if you are viewing the CD.

Message board - This is a little experiment to see if anyone will bite and use the message board as a "new" way of communicating. I have posted a few comments there already to start the ball rolling.

High Conservation Value Areas tour -To view the first website, visit www.borealbuzz.com.

 

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact Carissa at (204) 688-1583 or info@borealbuzz.com.

 

Recommended First Stop-----  Road Access

(click here to start Road Access tour or use the top bar to navigate)