Alberta Fma Agreements

For more information on forest management agreements, see Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. Alberta currently has 20 forest management agreements, including 3 joint agreements. The scope of a forest management agreement varies and contract holders must adhere to sound forest management practices aimed at achieving a yield consistent with the principles and practices of sustainable forest management. Here you will find Alberta Forest Management Agreements, current contract holders and related documents. The current holders of forest management agreements and their respective forest management agreements are listed below:. . . . Agreement: ANC Timber Ltd. Forest Management Agreement. To achieve sustainable forest management, the province establishes laws, regulations, standards, guidelines and procedures.

The Government of Alberta`s policy supports sustainable forest management to create environmental, economic, social and cultural opportunities for current and future generations. . Spray Lake Sawmills (1980) Ltd. received an FMA on September 5, 2001. The agreement is the result of extensive consultations and discussions with the province. Unlike timber quotas, AMFs require the harvesting company to be much more involved in the following areas: long-term forest planning; public consultation; and continued cooperation with stakeholders. Quota holders and other forestry companies active in the FMA region use conifers such as white pike and jack pine. The coniferous chips they supply to Al-Pac complement a small percentage of softwood used by Al-Pac. Main equipment: Oriented strand board factory near Edson, sawmill/hobelmühle near Drayton Valley. The FMA is a model of shared responsibility and commitment of government and industry, with industry assuming much of the responsibility for forest management, under state supervision.

In return for this commitment, the Crown provides the company with a long-term guarantee on Tenure, on which investments in production sites can be based. This long-term guarantee implies a compensation mechanism when land is removed from its FMA. Agreement: West Fraser Mills Ltd. and Tolko Industries Ltd. Vanderwell Contractors (1971) Ltd. is a privately owned family business in Alberta with a dimensional sawmill/hobelles mill complex in Slave Lake. The company has been in business for more than 60 years and in 1968 acquired its first wooden sleeping place in the Terre Rouge region. After acquiring the tenure contract with GoA, the company moved its operation to the current site in the Slave Lake area and was founded in 1971. .

An FMA grants timber and grants rights to this crown timber and requires that an approved forest management plan be in place before the timber can be harvested. Alberta owns all the timber that is on Crown provincial Crown lands. . Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries (Al-Pac) is active in a Forest Management Agreement (FMA) area to sustainably harvest deciduous and coniferous trees. A FMA is a land ownership agreement between a forestry company and the Government of Alberta that gives a forest company the right to create, grow and harvest wood. The FMA provides Al-Pac with a safe fiber optic power supply. From 1993 to 2011, Al-Pac and other forestry companies harvested about 250,000 hectares, or about 6 percent of the commercially productive forest, or 2 percent of the FMA`s total area. Logging operations are required to bring all harvested land back into new forests through forest treatments. Main mill: Thermomechanical pulp and paper mill for newsprint manufacturing near Whitecourt Contract term: 1.

September 1, 2011 to April 30, 2032 Other forestry companies operating within the territory of the forest management contract: Agreement: Tolko Industries Ltd., Vanderwell Contractors (1971) Ltd. and West Fraser Mills Ltd. Forest Management Agreement Harvesting rights in Alberta are granted through 3 forest systems. . . .