Partners and Affiliates
Currently SFM Network base funding is through the Federal Government's Network of Centres of Excellence program, which is overseen and funded, in our case, through 2 different granting councils in partnership with Industry Canada. Additional funding is through partnerships& with the provincial governments and federal government departments, forest industries, Aboriginal Groups, non-governmental organizations, and institutional partners listed below. Additional information that may be of interest to partners can be accessed through Resources/For Partners page.
GRANTING COUNCILS
- Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
FUNDING PARTNERS
GOVERNMENTS
- Canadian Forest Service
- Environment Canada
- Parks Canada - Ecological Integrity Branch
- Government of Alberta - Alberta Forestry Research Institute
- Government of Alberta - Alberta Innovation and Science
- Government of Alberta - Alberta Sustainable Resource Development
- Government of British Columbia - Ministry of Forests & Range
- Government of Manitoba - Manitoba Conservation
- Government of Newfoundland and Labrador - Department of Natural Resources
- Government of Ontario - Ministry of Natural Resources
- Gouvernement du Québec - Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune
- Government of Yukon - Department of Energy, Mines and Resources
INDUSTRIES
- Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
- Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd.
- Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. (Al-Pac)
- ANC Timber Inc.
- Bowater Inc.
- Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (Canfor)
- Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd. (DMI)
- Fraser Papers Inc.
- IRAP
- J.D. Irving, Limited (JDI)
- Lignum Forest Products
- Louisiana-Pacific Canada Ltd. (LP)
- Millar Western Forest Products Ltd.
- Manning Diversified (MD)
- Riverside/Tolko Okanagan
- Slocan Group/Canfor (BC)
- Tembec Inc.
- Tolko Industries Ltd.
- Weldwood of Canada Ltd.
- Weyerhaeuser Company
OTHER
ABORIGINAL GROUPS
- Gwich'in Renewable Resource Board (GRRB)
- Heart Lake First Nation
- Little Red River Cree Nation (LRRCN)
- Métis National Council (MNC)
- Moose Cree First Nation
- Kamloops Indian Band (KIB)
- Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs)
INSTITUTION PARTNERS
- University of Alberta (Host Institution; also a Funding Partner)
- Concordia University
- Dalhousie University
- Lakehead University
- McGill University
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Mount Royal College
- Royal Roads University
- Ryerson University
- Simon Fraser University
- Thompson Rivers University
- Trent University
- Université de Moncton
- Université de Montréal
- Université de Sherbrooke
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
- Université du Québec à Montréal
- Université du Québec à Rimouski
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
- Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Université Laval
- University of British Columbia
- University of Calgary
- University of Guelph
- University of Lethbridge
- University of Manitoba
- University of New Brunswick
- University of Northern British Columbia
- University of Ottawa
- University of Regina
- University of Saskatchewan
- University of Toronto
- University of Victoria
- University of Waterloo
- University of Western Ontario
- University of Winnipeg
- Wilfrid Laurier University
AFFILIATES
- Canadian Institute of Forestry
- Forest Ecosystem Science Cooperative
- Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada
- Fundy Model Forest
- Lake Abitibi Model Forest
- Manitoba Model Forest
- National Aboriginal Forestry Association
