The
Dryden Forest Management Company Limited (DFMC)
is committed to managing the Dryden Forest
sustainably through the integration of
environmental, economic and social values.
Sustainable forest management practices will
balance the interests of all Dryden Forest
stakeholders, while ensuring a sustainable and
predictable supply of quality wood fibre.
The broad goal for the Dryden Forest is to
achieve a healthy, sustainable forest ecosystem
vital to the well being of forest based, as well
as non-forest based regional communities.
Therefore, this sustainable forest management
policy includes not only economic objectives,
such as a continuous and predictable supply of
suitable wood from the Dryden Forest, but also
other social and environmental objectives for
forest cover. Guiding sustainable forest
management objectives for the Dryden Forest are:
FOREST DIVERSITY OBJECTIVES
Biodiversity
To maintain long-term forest diversity though
sustainable forest management practices, and to
protect sites from environmental degradation
from forest operations
Red and White Pine Conservation
To ensure that all age classes of naturally
occurring red pine and white pine ecosystems,
including old growth stands are present on the
landscape now and into the future, while
permitting a sustainable harvest of both species
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC MATTERS OBJECTIVES
Industrial Harvest
To provide an opportunity for the forest
products industry to purchase a predictable and
continuous supply of wood products
Employment
To provide employment to the forest industry and
workplaces which are respectful of civil rights, provides
equal employment opportunities, recognizes
gender equality and cultural diversity, is free
of discrimination and harassment, provides fair
and equitable workers’ compensation, recognizes
indigenous peoples’ rights, workers’ and
communities’ right to know, prevailing wages,
workers’ right to organize, and occupational
health and safety. Personal Use Harvest
To make available incidental volumes of timber
for such uses as fuelwood, building logs, fence
posts and other materials for personal use to
local users
Working with and Respecting Indigenous
Communities
DFMC
recognizes that the Dryden Forest resides in
traditional territories of the Indigenous
peoples of Treaty #3 and several Métis
organizations representing Métis people and
communities.
DFMC
is committed to working with the First Nations
people and communities of Treaty #3 and the
Métis communities to
oidentify
pathways that respect traditional rights,
omaintain
and enhance the inherent social and economic
benefits to Indigenous peoples who traditionally
use the forest for subsistence and spiritual
value.
DFMC
will continue to use the regulatory framework
of the Forest Management Planning system in
Ontario for the Forest Management Planning of
the Dryden Forest, including consultation with
Indigenous Communities, and will explore
mutually beneficial business relationships
with Indigenous organizations with shared
interests, as they arise.Our
efforts will be guided by relevant principles,
which may include the United Nations
Declaration on Indigenous Peoples.
DFMC
is committed to having staff and contractors
to receive relevant levels of cultural
awareness training related to local Indigenous
culture and rights.
Working With Other Forest Users
To conduct forestry operations in a manner that
considers and respects the other forest users
that utilize the Dryden Forest
Sensitive Sites
To protect identified archeological, cultural
heritage sites, and traditional use sites in the
Dryden Forest
THE PROVISION OF FOREST COVER OBJECTIVE
Forest Landscape
To maintain a forest landscape pattern that will
supply suitable habitat for provincially
featured wildlife species (moose, deer, marten)
temporally and geographically over the
landscape, within the bounds of natural
variation
SILVICULTURE OBJECTIVE
Silviculture
To maintain or enhance the productivity of the
forest while maintaining the ecological
diversity of the landscape
DFMC is committed to:
Operating
in accordance with all relevant federal,
provincial and municipal legislation and
regulations, and all relevant standards and
guidelines
Communicating
this sustainable forest management policy to
all shareholders, and company contractors
Implementing
and maintaining this sustainable forest
management policy
Continuously
improving forest management practices on the
Dryden Forest to sustain environmental quality
and to enhance the social and economic value
of the Dryden Forest
Monitoring
environmental impacts through compliance and
effectiveness audits and regular
communications with shareholders and
contractors