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collageIn order to share the information we've gathered, the results of our work, and the lessons we've learned in applying sustainable forest management principles and practices, the CMFN makes available a number of reports, documents, maps, and other publications.  On the right you can read our latest publications online using the latest in document-viewing technology – it might take a little getting used to, but it provides a handy way to read multiple-page documents and it even emulates a page turning!  You can also download, print or email publications.

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  • Biomass Heating & Electricity Production: A Guide for Rural Communities in Canada
    Biomass Heating & Electricity Production: A Guide for Rural Communities in Canada

    Canada is a resource rich country, supporting a wealth of renewable and non-renewable resource industries. Canadians are stewards to a large portion of the world’s temperate and boreal forests. These forests provide a range of ecological services: from water purification and storage, erosion and flood control and air quality protection, to the provision of wildlife habitat. Forests also play a critical role in climate change mitigation, with Canadian forests sequestering an estimated 95 billion tonnes of carbon. Forests provide a range of economic values: from traditional forest products, recreational values and trapping, to the potential for energy production.

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  • Building on the strengths of your community
    Building on the strengths of your community

    Each Model Forest works regionally to promote the sustainable management of large forest landscapes through research, education and applied projects. Model Forests support forest- based communities by bringing together the information, tools and best practices needed to overcome obstacles and identify new opportunities. This guide was developed under the national Socio-Economic Indicators program. It is supported by a steering committee of CMFN members and partners from across the country.

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  • Pathways to Climate Change Resilience

    This Guidebook and the accompanying Community Resource Collection has 
    been crafted based on the idea that Canadian rural communities in forest settings want guidance in
    understanding and acting to reduce community impacts from the changing climate. Collecting information
    and existing tools into a useful framework has been the first step for this initiative.

    For Resource Collection Click Here and for the Guidebook Click Here