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The Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM), a partnership between the federal,
provincial and territorial governments, founded the "National Forestry
Database Program (NFDP)" in 1990.
Its objectives are to establish a comprehensive
national forestry database in order to:
- describe forest management and its impact on the forest resource;
- develop a public information program; and
- provide forestry information to the federal, provincial and territorial policy processes.
The National Forestry Information System (NFIS), in conjunction with Canadian
Forestry Services (CFS), developed and maintains the National Forestry Database (NFD).
Direction to enhance the database and to improve methods of reporting
national forestry statistics is provided by NFIS and a Steering Committee.
The Steering Committee is composed of a representative from each provincial
and territorial forest management agency and reports to the CCFM through
the deputy ministers responsible for forestry.
The NFD is the central database used to compile the national forestry statistics.
The database represents statistical forest data in any period, marks changes in
the data and tracks differences in the resource itself on an on-going basis.
Most of the provincial and territorial data appearing in the NFD are provided
by the provincial or territorial resource management organizations. The CFS
inputs information for federal lands from data provided by the responsible
federal departments.
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