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  • Home
    • News
    • Login
      • Board of Directors
      • Operators
  • Our Company
    • Who We Are
    • Vision, Mission, and Values
    • Organization
      • Governance
      • Reports and Documents
      • Funding
    • Certification
    • Our Team
      • Our Staff and Board
      • Our Operators
      • Our Partners
    • Contact Us
  • Our Forest
    • Where we are
    • Forest Types
    • Forest Products
    • Timber Sales
    • Indigenous Communities
    • Logging History
    • Forest Health
    • Changing Climate
  • Forest Management
    • Planning
      • Forest Management Planning
      • Process
      • Public Consultation
      • Maps
    • Harvest and Renewal
      • Silviculture
      • Silvicultural Systems
      • Tree Marking
      • Site Preparation
      • Renewal
      • Tending
      • Silvicultural Monitoring
    • Oversight
    • Areas of Concern
    • Forestry Roads
    • Sustainability
      • Sustainability
      • Environmental Sustainability
      • Social Sustainability
      • Economic Sustainability
  • Private Land
    • Programs

Who we are

Westwind Forest Stewardship Inc. is a not-for-profit, community-based company that holds the Sustainable Forest License (SFL#542411) for Crown land in the French-Severn Forest. It was founded in April, 1997, in response to the provincial government’s plan to transfer more forest management responsibility to the forest industry. It’s modern tenure model and focus on community involvement make it a unique forest management company in Ontario. It was the first large public forest in Canada to receive Forest Stewardship Council® certification and continues to meet international requirements of a “Well Managed Forest”.

Under its Sustainable Forest License (SFL), granted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Westwind assumes responsibility for:

• planning timber harvest
• tree planting
• tree marking
• gathering, recording and assessing forest information
• annual reporting to the public
• preparing forest management plans (FMP)
• training and educating forest workers
• inspecting all forest operations to ensure they comply with strict government rules and regulations

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Respect.Honesty. Integrity.

Westwind Forest Stewardship has been orchestrating sustainable forest management in the French-Severn Forest since 1998.

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  • Parry Sound’s Westwind Forest Stewardship Inc. recognized by MPP Smith November 30, 2022
  • MNO Post-Secondary Education VIRTUAL SCHOOL FAIR October 27, 2021
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