Forest Information Documents

The following list of forest information documents are available for download.  For formal publications with International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) or International Standard Numbers (ISSN) go to the A-Z list of Forest Publications.

List of available documents:

• A Vision for Canada's Forests: 2008 and Beyond
• Annual Reports of Forest Operations Inspections
• Defining a Clearcut
• Environmental Registry Proposals (EBR)
• Extension Note Series - User Friendly Fact Sheets for Landowners (located on the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority's LandOwner Resource Centre website)
• Find a Forest Management Plan (Forest Management Plans, Annual Work Schedules and Maps)  
• Five-Year Environmental Assessment (EA) Report on Forest Management
• Forest Biofibre - Allocation and Use (Forest Management Directive FOR 03 02 01)
• Forest Compliance Handbook
• Forest Compliance Strategy
• Forest Management Class EA Approval (Declaration Order MNR-71) (2003)
  • Amendments to Declaration Order MNR-71(2007)
• Forest Process Streamlining Task Force Report and Implementation Plan

• Forest related laws

  • Ministry of Natural Resources  
  • Other Provincial Forest laws
  • Federal
• Forest Roads and Water Crossing Initiative (Task Team Report)
• Harvesting Canada Yew - Information for Landowners
• Independent Forest Audit Process and Protocol
• Independent forest audit reports

• Invasive species and insects
  

  • Dog-strangling vine (Cynanchum rossicum and C. louiseae)
  • Asian long-horned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)
  • Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis)
  • Hickory bark beetle (Scolytus quadrispinosus (Say.))
  • Jack pine budworm in Ontario (PDF 3.0MB 1 page) (Choristoneura pinus pinus Freeman)
  • A Safe Way to Control Jack Pine Budworm (PDF 3.0MB 1 page)
  • Pine shoot beetle (Tomicus piniperda (L.))
  • Sirex Woodwasp (Sirex noctilio (F.))
  • Landowner's Guide for Woodlots Threatened by Emerald Ash Borer
  • When Invasive Species Threaten Your Woodlot
• Minister’s Council on Forest Sector Competitiveness - Final Report (May 2005)
• Ontario's Approach to Wilderness: A Policy
• Ontario's Forest Industry Facility (Mill) Statistics
• Ontario's Forests Fact Sheets
  • Forest Facts
  • Forest Practices 
  • Public Involvement in Forest Management
  • The Boreal Forest
  • Boreal Ecology - Disturbance
  • Harvesting in the Boreal Forest
• Forest Roads and Water Crossing Initiative (Task Team Report)
• Ontario's Forest Management Guides - An Introduction
• Review of the Independent Forest Audit
• Status Summary of Ontario's Forest Management Guides
• Sustainable Forest Licences (SFLs)
• Timber Class EA Decision Document (1994)
• Wildlife Population Monitoring Program