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Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Standard

The Great Lakes - St. Lawrence (GLSL) forest region occupies a broad geographic range primarily in Ontario and Québec. This region is distinguished by the presence of eastern white and red pines and eastern hemlock and yellow birch.

FSC Canada is developing a forestry standard that will apply in the forests of southern Ontario and Québec, which will complete a set of accredited voluntary standards applicable across Canada.

Questions about the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Standard?  Contact glsl@fsccanada.org 

Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Development Process

The standard is currently under development.  For more information visit the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Development Process page.

NEW- Regional FM Standards Review and Revisions

According to FSC-STD-60-006 (Process Requirements for the Development and Maintenance of FSC Standards, 2009), all regional Forest Management (FM) standards are approved for a five year period, after which they are required to undergo a review and revision. Due to the current revision of the FSC Principles and Criteria (P&C), upon which all regional FM standarsd are based, there will be no revisions to Canadian FM standards until the new FSC P&C are approved. Regional FM standards will remain valid until such time as these standards according to the new FSC P&C.

Great Lakes St. Lawrence Standard Update

Toronto, ON, November 4th, 2008- After a great deal of work, the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Standard Development Committee MEMBERS ARE CLOSE TO consensus on all but two indicators, 6.4.5 and 6.4.6.  Those two indicators pertain to candidate protected areas that on large licence areas are not nearly as difficult to satisfy as when they are applied to small woodlots or to Group Certifications of members whose individual holdings are relatively small.  In effect, the indicators as drafted may constrain one or more members of a CO-OPERATIVE OR Group Certification from any harvest activities at all.  Work is needed to revisit the usefulness of 6.4.5 and 6.4.6 in highly fragmented, secondary or tertiary forests, especially when small landholdings are involved.  For the time being, the draft standard has brackets around those two indicators with the notation that the committee has not yet come to agreement on their wording