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Our partners and stakeholders include affected communities and their residents, forest industry, research scientists and the governments of British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Saskatchewan and Canada.
The Association of Municipal Districts and Counties (AAMDC) assists 69 rural municipalities in achieving strong and effective local government through the provision of advocacy, trade and insurance services. Several member municipalities have felt the impact of mountain pine beetle infestation, and others are concerned about the pine beetle's continued spread. The AAMDC assists these members in working with other levels of government to contain the mountain pine beetle.
The Alberta Forest Products Association (AFPA) is a non-profit industry association that represents companies who manufacture lumber, panelboard, pulp and paper, and secondary manufactured wood products in Alberta. Our membership forms the province's third largest manufacturing sector, which generates more than $8 billion in revenue and provides 44,000 jobs for Albertans. The AFPA is committed to working with its members and Alberta Sustainable Resource Development to combat the mountain pine beetle.
British Columbia's Mountain Pine Beetle Action Plan is the cornerstone of the province's coordinated response to the mountain pine beetle infestation.
The Action Plan guides provincial responses and helps coordinate all levels of government, communities, industries and stakeholders working to mitigate impacts of the pine beetle. It addresses forestry and environmental issues as well as economic, social and cultural sustainability.
The Canadian Forest Service (CFS) is a science-based policy organization within Natural Resources Canada, a Government of Canada department that helps shape the important contributions of the natural resources sector to the Canadian economy, society and environment.
The CFS promotes the responsible and sustainable development of Canada's forests - development that meets current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
The fRI Research is a leader in developing innovative science and knowledge for integrated resource management on the forest landscape through diverse and actively engaged partnerships.
The fRI Research Mountain Pine Beetle Ecology Program was born out of the Wildland Fire Research Program proposal, submitted for funding in March of 2007. The objective was to carry out focused research and investigations in regards to forest ecology as related to mountain pine beetle infestations.
The Forest Resource Improvement Association of Alberta (FRIAA) is a non-government association that has been delegated various program delivery responsibilities by the Minister of Sustainable Resource Development. FRIAA's programs enhance Alberta's forest resources and improve the sustainable management of Crown forests.
FRIAA delivers a Mountain Pine Beetle control program aimed at providing funds for industry to use in controlling the spread of Mountain Pine Beetle in Alberta and mitigating the devastating effects of Mountain Pine Beetle infestation. Funds are used for detection, aggregate pheromone use, single tree control, orchard protection, seed collection and other related activities.
Genome Alberta is a not-for-profit organization based in Calgary which initiates, funds, and manages genomics and genomics-related projects. In partnership with Genome Canada, Industry Canada and the Province of Alberta, we are the country's newest Regional Genome Centre.
Our Mountain Pine Beetle research focuses on the genetic relationship between the beetle, the fungus, and the tree and we have started related research to assess the use of pine as bioenergy feedstock in areas at risk for mountain pine beetle outbreak.
The University of Alberta's Department of Renewable Resources is a diverse group of academics united by a passion for wise management of natural resources based on understanding the integration of landscape elements and the biota with which we share the planet. Never has the need for our sort of science been more crucial, and we delight in the meaningful contributions of our students and staff to understanding interacting ecological systems ranging in scale from pedons to watersheds.
Our undergraduate programs lead to professional degrees in land reclamation, forest ecology and management, conservation biology, sustainable agriculture and parks and land management. The emphasis of these programs is on high interaction classroom settings and experiential learning to help highly-motivated students master skills relevant to environmental problem solving. At the graduate level, our students and staff work together, and often with external partners, to solve applied problems directly relevant to how our society manages its impacts on landscapes. Our research builds effectively on partnerships with industry, NGOs and government research institutes in Alberta and around the world.
Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD) works with the provinces, industry associations and communities to promote the development and diversification of the western economy, coordinates federal economic activities in the West and represents the interests of western Canadians in national decision making.
As part of Canada's Economic Action Plan, WD is delivering the Community Adjustment Fund (CAF) to support the most affected western Canadian communities, including those that are heavily reliant on resource-based industries such as forestry, mining, agriculture and fisheries, and communities that depend on the manufacturing industry. Visit the Community Adjustment Fund in the West or Canada's Economic Action Plan for more information.
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