Grants and Contributions:

Using infrastructure in place to plant species and genotypes better adapted to the warming climate could dramatically increase the resilience of our forest to global changes; developing empirical guidelines for forest-assisted migration will spearhead this effort by increasing the chances of successful assisted migration strategies; better monitoring of stress in trees will allow forest managers to adapt and target tending treatments, ensuring a better resilience of the forest; and tools generated by this project are highly transferable and can be applied to any forest ecosystem across Canada.

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.