The Sierra Club of Canada and Global Forest Watch Canada have undertaken this joint project to collect and make available Forest Management/Development Plans that have been developed by forest companies operating in Canada’s forests.

The Sierra Club of Canada’s mission is to develop a diverse, well-trained grassroots network working to protect the integrity of our global ecosystems. Global Forest Watch Canada is an organization whose role is to provide access to better information about development activities in Canada’s forests and their environmental impacts. Global Forest Watch Canada tracks existing and planned development activities in part by identifying the actors - companies, individuals, government agencies, and others - engaged in these development activities.

Much of Canada's logging activity occurs on Crown (often referred to as "public") land and is regulated by various commercial forest tenure (concession) systems that allocate cutting rights to and infers obligations on private company recipients of the tenures. These obligations almost always include the requirement for the companies to produce Forest Management/Development Plans that identify areas for future logging and associated future developments such as road building.

The management/development plans made available here are intended to be a resource for anyone who is interested, including those working on conservation issues. This website is a work in progress. We continue to post more data as we obtain it. If you have any relevant maps or digital data that you are able to share, please contact Global Forest Watch Canada, and we will endeavour to post such materials here on our website.

An information gathering effort of this size on an activity of private commerce (albeit generated mostly from Crown timber resources) so widely dispersed in ownership, tenure situation, and geography is impossible to accomplish error-free. We invite readers and users to submit corrections and updates.

The work benefited from software donated by Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc. (ESRI). The Sierra Club of Canada and Global Forest Watch Canada wish to particularly thank those provincial governments who supplied forest management plans in a digital format and the various companies whose plans are made available.