Grants and Contributions:
Project 1: - Encouraging provinces and forest companies to continually invest in forest plot programs and to ensure that investment is done optimally; - Capitalise on the recent investments by a number of Provinces in ALS data and link these acquisitions with the growth and yield analysis to provide insights into forest growth under a changing climate; - Development of new open access, and peer reviewed methodologies to utilize time series of ALS and climate data to build growth and yield estimates for a range of forest conditions in BC and Ontario; - Development of harmonized ALS datasets for a range of forest attributes and how they change over time, to inform upon forest change, disturbance and other ecosystem goods and services in these focus sites in BC and Ontario; and - Spatially explicit characterizations of vegetation structure and terrain derived from ALS data at these sites to allow quantification and monitoring of a broad range of indicators in the context of sustainable forest management. Project 2: - Connect robust ecological research to forest management agencies and industry; - Help mitigate projected impacts on the timber supply and promote resilient livelihoods in the forest sector; - Optimal utilization of the forest resource requires connecting the effect of forest management practices to lumber manufacturing through development of prediction models to assist decision makers; - Introduce and advance models that establish connections between specific forest mixtures and the wood properties and lumber recovery of commercially valuable species, going beyond mere volume production; and - Contribute to our understanding of mixed forests but also provides valuable insights for practical forest management.
Amendment: Value / Award previously disclosed for the 4th Quarter of 2023-2024. Grant or contribution awarded and spanning more than one fiscal year.
The objective of the Forest Innovation Program (FIP) is to enable transformation in the Canadian forest industry. More specifically, the FIP will help drive forest sector transformation, sparking enterprises in their move beyond a dependence on commodity products toward value-added, high-value and specialty products – sustainably extracting the maximum value from the fibre resource. To achieve this, the FIP will facilitate and promote a value-chain approach that addresses innovation from the seed to the end markets and products in which the right fibre is matched to the right product.