Forest Tenure National Workshop

Vancouver, British Columbia

June 9-10, 2008

This two-day workshop highlighted results from the SFM Network project "The Challenge of Institutional Redesign: Tenure, Competitiveness and Sustainability."   The workshop provided a forum for discussion about the future of the forest sector and the role that new institutional designs will play in shaping that future.

Workshop Agenda:  Click here to download the workshop agenda.

Objectives 

• Highlight research funded by the forest land tenure research project as well as other research focusing on institutional design in the forest sector.
• Provide a forum to discuss some of the key issues that currently face the forest sector and explore whether, and which reforms in the tenure system can best facilitate transformation of the forest management system into a sustainable one.
• Identify and explore possible consequences of alternative options for tenure reform.

Presentations:

Forest Tenure Systems in Canada: Implications for SFM

• The Changing Governance Context (George Hoberg, University of British Columbia) 
• Forest Tenures as Property Rights (David Haley, University of British Columbia) 
• Crown Forest Tenures (David Haley, University of British Columbia)
• Forest practices (George Hoberg, University of British Columbia)
• Stumpage fee systems (Marty Luckert, University of Alberta)
• Implications for Sustainable Forest Management (Marty Luckert, University of Alberta)

Panel: Aboriginal Perspectives

• Harry Bombay Part 1.  Part 2.  (National Aboriginal Forestry Association)
• Lillian Trapper (Moose Cree First Nation)
• Chris Tollefson (University of Victoria)
• Terry Teegee (Carrier Sekani Tribal Council)

Panel: The challenges facing communities, industry and governments in the forest sector: How can tenure systems figure into solutions?  

• Bob Friesen (BC Ministry of Forests and Range)
• Rick Jeffery (Coast Forest Products Association)
• Kevin Davie (BC Community Forest Association, Sechelt Community Forest)
• Don Roberts (CIBC World Markets)
• Brad Stennes (Canadian Forest Service)

Case Studies and Tenure Options

• Corporatization and Privatization (Harry Nelson/David Haley, University of British Columbia)
• Non-timber tenure  (Sinclair Tedder, University of British Columbia)
• Community tenure (Lisa Ambus, University of British Columbia)
• TRIAD (Jay Anderson, University of Alberta)
• Use of economic instruments (Marian Weber, University of Alberta)

National Survey of Preferences for Tenure Characteristics

• Preferences of Industry and Government Stakeholders for Characteristics of Forest Tenures in Canada (Peter Boxall, University of Alberta)
• Preferences of Community Members of Characteristics of Forest Tenures in Canada (Chris Kruger, University of Alberta)
• Perceived tenure security and incentives for investment in Canadian forest tenures (Marty Luckert, University of Alberta)
• General public response to outcomes of alternative TRIAD scenarios (Peter Boxall, University of Alberta)

Future Drivers of Tenure: Adapting to Change

• Forest futures (Peter Duinker, Dalhousie University)
• Competitiveness and plantations (Roger Sedjo, Resources for the Future)
• Adapting to changes in values due to changes in technology: Bioenergy (Don Roberts, CIBC World Markets)
• New modes of governance (e.g. decentralization) (Luc Bouthillier, Laval University)
• Aboriginal governance (Peggy Smith, Lakehead University)
• Responding to climate change (Tim Williamson, Canadian Forest Service )
• Trade and tenure (Daowei Zhang, Auburn University)