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In August 2000 the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM) agreed
on the need to establish an information infrastructure, called the
National Forest Information System (NFIS), to answer on matters
relating to sustainable forest management in Canada. The Ministers
asked the CCFM-NFIS Steering Committee to direct the development of
NFIS, including:
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developing a governance model defining the role and responsibility
of each jurisdiction;
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defining the information needed to respond to our sustainable
forest management commitments;
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examining opportunities for co-operation and co-ordination with
other government and department agencies
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clarifying the infrastructure of the Internet site; and
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taking into account the investments done by each jurisdiction in
the respective inventory programs.
The CCFM-NFIS Steering Committee is charged with the phased implementation of NFIS . . .
Read the NFIS Overview - 79kb PDF 
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