$10 · Growing Community Forests: Practice, Research, and Advocacy in Canada.

Growing Community Forests: Practice, Research, and Advocacy in Canada. Ryan Bullock (Editor), Gayle Broad (Editor), Lynn Palmer (Editor), M.A. (Peggy) Smith (Editor) Paperback, 2017, 264 pages. Canada is experiencing an unparalleled crisis involving forests and communities across the country. While municipalities, policy makers, and industry leaders acknowledge common challenges such as an overdependence on US markets, rising energy costs, and lack of diversification, no common set of solutions has been developed and implemented. Ongoing and at times contentious public debate has revealed an appetite and need for a fundamental rethinking of the relationships that link our communities, governments, industrial partners, and forests towards a more sustainable future. The creation of community forests is one path that promises to build resilience in forest communities and ecosystems. This model provides local control over common forest lands in order to activate resource development opportunities, benefits, and social responsibilities. Implementing community forestry in practice has proven to be a complex task, however: there are no road maps or well-developed and widely-tested models for community forestry in Canada. But in settings where community forests have taken hold, there is a rich and growing body of experience to draw on. See pictures Pickup in Langford Cross posted