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Announcements Articles Recent News - June 2004
In 2002 and 2003 Dirk Brinkman was active in developing the National Forest Strategy on behalf of the silviculture industry in the last year on the Vision & Writing Committee. The strategy includes all of the principles developed within the WSCA for funding the Silviculture required for Sustainable Forest Management and numerous specific objectives which will have a direct impact on silviculture. It can be found on the web at http://nfsc.forest.ca/home.html
In the last year he has been active on the National Forest Strategy Implementation Committee. In his role within the Coalition he co-presented in January on behalf of the coalition to the Sustainable Forestry Working Group of the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers with Jean Cinq Mars, the Chair.
He is also Co-chair, with Elizabeth May of the Sierra Club, of the theme 'team working to meet the Ecosystem Based Forest Management Objectives of the strategy'.
Recently he was appointed as one of the three private representatives to the Steering Committee of the National Forest Strategy. The Steering Committee includes Brian Emmet, ADM Forestry Canada; NRCan, Ed Mc Cauly, DM Forestry NS; Mike Willit, DM NR Ont; Ross Risvold, Remote Resource Communities; and as yet to be named representative from Forest Products Assoc. of Canada and is lead by Jean Cinq Mars, the NFS Coalition Chair. The NFSSC oversees the implmentation of the NFS.
Dirk represents the Canadian Silviculture Association and the Western Silviculture Contractors Association in these roles.
News - May 2003
Brinkman & Associates is proud to have supported Dirk Brinkman through the process of actively participating in the development of the National Forest Strategy.
After participating in the Vancouver Regional Workshop and the National Workshop in Winnipeg, Dirk continued his involvement through a number of conference calls and a session in Ottawa, in his role with NFS Writing Committee.
Dirk participated on behalf of the Canadian Silviculture Association. Dirk is the representative director of Western Silvicultural Contractors Association (WSCA) on the Canadian Silviculture Association (CSA).
This is the fourth national forest strategy development process in which Dirk has participated. In 1985 he joined the first national sectoral process in St. John's, New Brunswick. He has played a vital role on behalf of the silviculture industry at each stage of the evolving national forest strategy since then.
His participation over the past eighteen years has always been supported directly by Brinkman & Associates Reforestation. This is one of the company's many sponsored services in support of the silviculture industry, public forest policy development, the forest sector and the health of Canada's forest ecosystems.
The 2003-2008 NF Strategy is being rolled out on May 1st and 2nd in Ottawa at the National Forest Congress.
Information on the NFS is available at The National Forest Strategy Coalition
Information on the NFC is available at The National Forest Congress |