Canadian Forest Service

Founded in 1900, the Canadian Forestry Association is Canada’s oldest conservation organization and has been the national voice for wise use and conservation of Canada’s forest, water and wildlife resources through public awareness and education programs. Established to address such issues as reforestation, soil erosion, over-exploitation, destruction of wildlife habitat, and to promote forest fire prevention, the CFA continues to advocate sound, environmentally sensitive forest management and sustainable development.

Created in 1899, the Canadian Forest Service, Canada’s foremost forest research agency, works to ensure that our forest resources are used wisely by advancing the science and policy framework that assists forest managers in practicing sustainable development. Its innovative programs, policies, science and technology are key to Canada’s international leadership as a forest nation, and critical to safeguarding the values that Canadians place on their forests — now and for the future.

Through public education programming, the Canadian Forestry Association and the Canadian Forest Service are working together to advance the principles of sustainable development and to ensure that the resources we enjoy today will be available for future generations. Our concern for the forests is founded on an educated understanding of the integrity of the forest and all of its components and values. We believe that all Canadians should respect, and be able to enjoy, the multiple values of the forest — economic, wildlife, aesthetic, cultural, spiritual, historical, recreational and environmental.

For more than a century, the Canadian Forestry Association and the Canadian Forest Service have worked together to collect and disseminate information on forestry issues for the benefit of the Canadian public. For many years, the CFS has been a strong supporter of the CFA, working with it on projects of mutual interest and benefit in addition to providing a substantial share of the CFA’s annual core funding and lending CFS scientific expertise and guidance to products such as the Canada’s Forests teaching kit series.

While the CFA remains an independent arms-length organization, its mission dovetails with the objective of the CFS to develop and showcase Canada’s world-leading advances in forest science and forestry practices.