Falls Brook Centre is offering a series of workshops in communication, conflict resolution and faciliation free-of-charge at libraries in New Brunswick. Through participatory learning sessions, community members can gain from experiences that help them hone the skills they possess for making their communities stronger. Fundy Model Forest provides support to the Falls Brook Centre.  The sessions are available in English and French.

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Approximately 120 government representatives, forest managers, members of environment and research organizations and others in the forest sector, attended the day-long workshop “Implications of Intensive Silviculture and Mixedwood Dynamics for Forest Managment”  held Jan. 28, 2010 at the Hugh John Flemming Forestry Centre in New Brunswick. (more…)

The GoForestry campaign in Brunswick has also added a new twist to an old favorite.  Click on the video here and enjoy! This is the launch of the second phase of this promotional campaign supported by the Fundy Model Forest and many other forestry organizations. As a cutting edge, bilingual campaign focused on promoting the professionalism, innovation and opportunities within the forest sector, this phase builds on the campaigns past internet success. New videos and features have been added on the award winning interactive web site.  Click here to visit:  GoForestry .

La campagne promotionnelle Verslaforesterie du Nouveau-Brunswick passe à la deuxième vitesse. Nous vous invitons à cliquer sur la vidéo ici, nous sommes certains qu’elle vous plaira. Bon divertissement! Cette vidéo lance officiellement la deuxième phase de cette stratégie promotionnelle soutenue par la Forêt modèle de Fundy et de nombreuses organisations forestières.

En étant une campagne promotionnelle moderne et avant-gardiste qui se concentre sur la promotion du professionnalisme, l’innovation et les occasions de carrières dans le secteur forestier, cette nouvelle phase va continuer de bâtir sur le succès du site web, lauréat d’un prix international.  De nouvelles vidéos et fonctions ont été ajoutées au site www.verslaforesterie.ca.   Nous vous encourageons à visiter le site et de nous donner vos commentaires.

A  Fundy Model Forest supported project is helping two New Brunswick communities plan for a sustainable future.  The villages of Plaster Rock and Petitcodiac are entering the second phase of the capacity building project, which is spearheaded by the Rural and Small Town Programme at Mount Allison University.

Petitcodiac, which is a partner of Fundy Model Forest, saw the major employer, Fawcett’s Lumber, close its sawmill operation in 2007, costing the tiny community 90 jobs.  After the village finished the first stage of the project, Mayor Peter Saunders wrote Fundy Model Forest stating: “The process that has been facilitated by Gwendolyn Zwicker has been a great help in our endeavour to rebuild our community after losing a major business by assisting the village in enhancing our local skills and resources.”

The project works with the communities to create a menu of choices which allows them to more readily identify what capacities can and should be built, how to build them, and what can be done with the newly built capacity.  In addition to funding from Fundy Model Forest, it  has received support from three provincial regional development corporations: Enterprise Miramichi, Enterprise Fundy and Enterprise Grand Falls Region.

Atlantic partners launch non-forest product directory …

Atlantic Canadians interested in living naturally and buying locally now have easy access to products and services made from natural woodland resources.   From our Atlantic Woods is a new directory that identifies and promotes businesses from Atlantic Canada and Maine that develop and sell non-timber forest products and services.  Wild berry wines, honey, Christmas trees, bird-watching tours, wooden furniture, beauty products and more are at your fingertips.

From our Atlantic Woods is available in English and French, in print or online at: www.FromOurAtlanticWoods.com, and includes more than 260 forest product and service listings.

The potential of forest biomass as a source of renewable energy has resulted in increased demand for this material and Fundy Model Forest hosted a workshop to examine issues related to the sustainable supply of biomass from New Brunswick forests. The workshop provided information, described tools to predict the availability of sustainable supplies of biomass feedstock and identified gaps in knowledge that need to be investigated.

The six presentations are available as videos on the Fundy Model Forest website at

http://fundymodelforest.net/cms/links_and_resources

Le potentiel de la biomasse forestière comme source d’énergie renouvelable a eu comme résultat d’accroître la demande de ce matériel et la Forêt modèle de Fundy a organisé un atelier afin d’examiner les enjeux reliés à l’approvisionnement durable de la biomasse forestière au Nouveau-Brunswick. Cet atelier a fourni de l’information, a décrit les outils pour la prévision de récolte durable de biomasse d’origine forestière et a déterminé les lacunes dans les connaissances qui doivent être examinées.

Les présentations données par les six conférenciers sont disponibles en format vidéo en anglais ici:

http://fundymodelforest.net/cms/fr/links_and_resources

Fundy Model Forest hosted a workshop Tough times, New Ideas, in Feruary that brought together representatives from all links of the supply chain in the private woodlot sector to identify issues and brainstorm solutions to some of the challenges facing that sector. This day-long event drew 41 participants and was jointly hosted by the New Brunswick Federation of Woodlot Owners, the Canadian Institute of Forest Policy and Communications and Fundy Model Forest. It is hoped that efforts will evolve in the coming months to address some of the issues raised. A summary of the discussions is available on the Fundy Model Forest website. Comments can be forwarded to FMF General Manager Nairn Hay (nairn@fundymodelforest.net)

Durant une période de trois ans, le Dr David MacLean, président du Réseau canadien de forêts modèles et la Forêt modèle de Fundy, a dirigé l’un des plus vastes projets de recherche forestière au Nouveau-Brunswick. Le projet « Incidences de l’aménagement sur la dynamique des forêts, la succession, et les relations avec l’habitat en vertu de différents niveaux de sylviculture dans les forêts mixtes du Nouveau-Brunswick » a impliqué 11 étudiants de trois universités du Nouveau-Brunswick. (more…)

For three years, Dr. David MacLean, president of the Canadian Model Forest Network and Fundy Model Forest, headed up one of the most extensive forestry research projects conducted in New Brunswick. The project, “Management implications of forest dynamics, succession, and habitat relationships under differing levels of silviculture in New Brunswick mixedwood forests” involved 11 graduate students from three New Brunswick universities. (more…)

New Brunswick forester and woodlot owner Jamie Simpson has written a practical guide for his fellow woodlot owners, offering advice on woodlot planning, tree harvesting, promoting wildlife habitat, and finding revenue sources as well as information on the trees of the Acadian forest. The book, Restoring the Acadian Forest: A Guide to Forest Stewardship for Woodlot Owners in the Maritimes, is also applicable for woodlot owners in eastern Quebec, Maine and northern New England. (more…)