The draft Forest Management Guide for Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Forest Landscapes (Landscape Guide) provides direction to planning teams to help them set the broad strategic direction for their forest management plan.
This version of the draft Landscape Guide addresses only the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest region of Ontario. Work on a similar document addressing the boreal forest is ongoing and is anticipated to be ready for public comment in about one year.
If approved, the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Landscape Guide will replace existing landscape level direction for this forest region currently found in the Natural Disturbance Pattern Emulation Guide, the White-tailed Deer Guide, the Pileated Woodpecker Guide, the Moose Habitat Guide, and the Marten Guide.
If implemented, this new guide will make the forest management planning process more efficient and the direction provided by the guides more accessible, not only to MNR and the forest industry but also to the public. Equally as important, this proposed new approach for setting strategic level direction in the forest management plans reflects the most recent scientific understanding of managing forest ecosystems, thereby ensuring the conservation of forest biodiversity in the province.
The draft Landscape Guide is currently under EBR environmental registry review. You can comment on this draft guide through that process until January 26, 2009. After this time the comments will be reviewed and appropriate changes will be made before finalizing the guide.
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Appendices
- Landscape Guide Ranges for Landscape Guide Region GLSL North (PDF, 1.2 MB 20 pages)
- Landscape Guide Ranges for Landscape Guide Region GLSL South (PDF, 900KB 24 pages)
Contact Information:
Michael Gluck
Ecology Forester
Ministry of Natural Resources
Forests Division
Forest Management Branch
c/o Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research
955 Oliver Road
Lakehead University Campus
Thunder Bay Ontario
P7B 5E1
PHONE: (807) 343-4002 FAX: (807) 343-4001
