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Funding Opportunity: Investments in Forest Industry Transformation Program
Investments in Forest Industry Transformation (IFIT) is a $100M, four-year NRCan Program. The objective of IFIT is to invest in innovative technologies to support a more diversified, higher-value product mix in the forest sector. These products include bioenergy, biomaterials, biochemicals, and next generation building products.
For further information regarding this call for proposals please click on the links. The closing date for this program is September 17, 2010, with a second call for proposals in the spring of 2011.
First Nations Forestry Program in British Columbia (FNFP)
The FNFP is a federal government initiative jointly funded by the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and by Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service. Through the Program, First Nations can obtain financial and technical assistance in forestry and forest economic development. This web site contains the Application and Guidelines for the First Nations Forestry Program (FNFP).
Funding for First Nations Forest Fuels Management
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First Nations Wildfire Protection Element
Many First Nations communities are at risk of forest fires due to being located on relatively small parcels of land surrounded by large areas of pine beetle impacted forest. The First Nations Wildfire Protection Element is a federal program that provides First Nations Communities with funding of up to $100,000 per fiscal year in order to develop and implement fuel management plans for reserve lands.
Federal Forestlands First Nations Element
The Federal Forestland First Nations Element Program was created to aid First Nations Communities in planning, controlling and treating pine beetle affected forests on reserve lands. Eligible activities under the Federal Forest Lands First Nations Element include:
- Planning activities, including development of a beetle management plan, mountain pine beetle detection using ground surveys, treatment surveys and prescriptions, and block layout, marking and mapping.
- Control activities, including fall and burn and/or fall and debark.
- Secondary site treatments, including seedling acquisition, reforestation and brushing and weeding.
First Nations Emergency Services Society
First Nations' Emergency Services Society (FNESS) is dedicated to building capacity within First Nations communities by increasing the safety, security and well being of First Nations people throughout the province of British Columbia. Their mission is to assist First Nations in developing and sustaining safer and healthier communities by providing programs, services and related training and education.
The Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) project is a joint initiative of the BC Forestry Service, FNESS, and Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM).
The MPB project’s mandate is to create a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), and Fuel Management on reserve lands in British Columbia.
Within this program, there is the First Nations' Mountain Pine Beetle Element (FNBE). There are four primary objectives:
- Assist First Nations with a fuel management treatment program to control and reduce the spread of MPB on reserves
- Assist First Nations to restore and rehabilitate reserve forestlands affected by MPB
- Enhance First Nations capacity in MPB management and control
- Promote First Nations involvement in MPB management and rehabilitation efforts
For a funding application form, check out the FNESS website.
