Canadian Wood Council

are a lot of tenure arrangements, which is how the governments allocate harvest rights and management responsibilities for timber on Crown land. Some arrangements are granted on specified volumes of timber and others grant access to timber resources in specific areas, so sometimes they overlap. “It means our forests are well managed, it also means that the profile of the wood we’re getting from our forest areas in Canada is very different than that on the rest of the planet. We have the third most forested country in the world behind Russia and Brazil but 37 percent (165 million hectares) of Canadian forests are certified to third-party standards for sustainable forest management. That’s by far the highest number of hectares that follow sustainable forest practices. So it is impressive and different.” BVM: What is your focus from a membership perspective? Courtesy of Western Archrib Photographer, Cooper & O’Hara