Objectives
Model Forest of Newfoundland & Labrador (MFNL) is not-for-profit partnership of communities, industries, organizations and governments working together to help build our province’s forest-based communities. Our partners have shared a vision of strong communities equipped and empowered to sustain our forest sector into the future.
The forest sector defines many of our province’s communities and the hard-working, determined people who call them home. Forest resources are at the heart of our economy through pulp and paper production, sawmilling, lumber and other forest product development, and tourism and recreation ventures.
The MFNL has a philosophy that characterizes its successes within its own partnership. As an organization, we build the capacity of our partners to think strategically about a common vision for forest management and utilization. We build and transfer the systems, tools, and knowledge required to fulfill the tasks necessary to meet their strategic goals and assist in the implementation phase by designing prototypes and models that demonstrate the applicability of specific approaches.
Our strongest performance indicator is the ability of a partner to be independent from our continued support and to have a strong sense of ownership in their future direction.
Strategic Vision
Resource-based rural communities are equipped and empowered to be innovative in meeting opportunities and challenges of a healthy and changing forest sector.
Goals and Objectives:
- Build strong forest-based communities that will effectively meet transitional challenges and produce healthy local economies. Facilitate governance options to build community ownership and accountabilities in the forest sector.
- 2.0 Developing Approaches and Sharing Knowledge
- Create awareness in science-based solutions so that decisions are based on factual information and are accountable and realistic.
- 3.0 New or Enhanced Forest Based Opportunities
- Establish the capacity to explore new opportunities in the forest sector that directly benefit the communities targeted. Engage partnerships to implement activities and encourage a transfer of successful methodologies.
- 4.0 International Outreach
- Deliver internationally significant success stories and experiences to benefit the MFNL partners and its selected international model forest sites.
- 5.0 Bringing Forth the Model Forest Legacy
- Implement and refine the legacy outputs of three phases of the model forest program that are relevant to the MFNL partners’ ability to practice Sustainable Forest Management.
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