EOMF FOREST CERTIFICATION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES MANUAL
FSC, with its head office in the city of Bonn, Germany, is governed by an elected Board which consists of people from industry, environmental, social and labour groups, Indigenous People's representatives and others. FSC Canada is based has 4 full time employees and is based out of Toronto. For more information, please visit; www.fsccanada.org. EOMF – CERTIFICATION WORKING GROUP (EOMF-CWG) The EOMF created a certification working group (CWG) to investigate, manage, and guide certification of private land in the EOMF area. Membership in this working group includes EOMF staff and board members and representatives for private landowner groups, forest industry, Community Forests, forest managers, maple syrup producers, the Ontario Woodlot Association, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, and the Canadian Forest Service. FOREST MANAGER (FM) The title of forest manager throughout this manual refers to the forestry practitioner responsible for undertaking and overseeing all stages of forest operations to ensure that the quality of the forestry operations meets the requirements in the Standard Operating Procedures. There may be many different forest managers across the certification program area. For instance, there are forest managers who work only with private landowners and there will be forest managers who are responsible for the management of large tracts of community forest land or several community forests. However all must have demonstrated having the minimum requirements as set out in the Minimum Requirements Policy – Policy 1.3 and must be approved by the EOMF. Examples of Forest Managers are the EOMF Certification Co-Coordinator and individuals hired by or working in cooperation with the EOMF to gather the initial property information and update management plans. Forest Managers can be hired by the EOMF, by individual landowners, by landowner groups, or by community forest owners. A forest manager may be hired to undertake only one aspect of forest operations, many different operations, or all operations. The forest manager may work for a Landowner Group, for individual landowners, or for community forest owners. INDIVIDUAL LANDOWNER This designation refers to individual landowners now part of the pool of landowners in the program or landowners becoming part of the program in the future. They could be: • Individual landowners not part of any group • members of a Landowner Group (see below) “Individual Landowner” is used interchangeably throughout this document with “landowner”, “private landowner”, “woodlot owner” or “forest owner”. LANDOWNER GROUP This designation refers to a group of landowners, who together, are seeking to have their woodlots certified. An example of a Landowner Group is the Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry Certified Forest Owners (SD&G CFO). The SD&G CFO has its own board of directors and through their Landowner Group Coordinator they organize educational workshops. The EOMF holds the FSC Resource Manager Certificate on behalf of the members of a given Landowner Group. Participants manage their forests within the policies & procedures outlined in this manual and are committed to the Principles & Criteria of the FSC. A representative of Landowner Groups could be a member of the EOMF-CWG. The Landowner Group will have an MoU with the EOMF and as well with each member of the Landowner Group. There will be no MoU between the landowners in a Landowner Group and the EOMF, except for in the case of the EOCFO, see information below. LANDOWNER GROUP COORDINATOR Each Landowner Group will have a group coordinator with whom the EOMF will have a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The group coordinator will have MoU’s with each member of the group and will work directly with the members to ensure sustainable forest management across the landscape. The Landowner Group Coordinator could be a member of the EOMFCWG.
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