It is critical to understand how the public prioritizes multiple forestry values when establishing objectives for sustainable forest management. While this is a complex and difficult task, a necessary step is to elicit a broad range of public opinions in forest planning to ensure that decisions serve the needs of various forest stakeholders and society at large. This study seeks to understand how six forest dependent communities in British Columbia prioritize a number of attributes associated with sustainable forest management by using a simple survey-based measurement tool, the Thurstone scale. The results suggest that ecological attributes are a higher priority for survey respondents followed by quality of life, global warming, and economic considerations. This paper explores some of the ramifications of the priorities for sustainable forest management measured in these six communities as well as implications for using the Thurstone scale in processes like Public Advisory Groups.

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A multi-objective optimization model was created for medium-term forest development planning for an integrated forest products company located in the East Kootenay area of British Columbia, Canada. First, a set of sustainable forest management criteria and indicators were developed based on information that could be collected from regional geographic information sytem (GIS) databases and potential outputs from the model. Next, a new forest development planning unit was created (stewardship unit) in which adjacent forest polygons with similar indicator attributes were aggregated. The planning model was designed to determine appropriate harvest levels and management treatments on each stewardship unit to satisfy objectives determined in a participatory process. The mathematical model uses a fuzzy MAXMIN approach, where each indicator represents an objective in the model. Indicators are valued in the model using targets, thresholds, and triggers (called the 3-T approach). A case study is used to demonstrate the use of the model in a sustainable forest development planning context. The results of the case study show that the planning area is highly sensitive to visual quality, old-growth, and community watershed indicators. The paper concludes with a sensitivity analysis that determines the relative opportunity cost of various sustainable forest management indicators on company profits, employment, and tax revenues.

Many nations are attempting to strengthen the development of secondary wood manufacturing in an attempt to cope with job losses due to declining annual allowable cut levels, increasing global competition and decreasing prices of commodity lumber products. This paper describes the results of a survey conducted in the province of British Columbia aimed at uncovering the impediments to wood supply relationships between secondary and primary manufacturers. The study looks at the raw material needs of different categories of secondary manufacturers pertaining to wood quality, price and service and highlights similarities and differences between these groups. In general, the study found that the majority of secondary manufacturers are experiencing lumber procurement problems. Lumber grading issues are the biggest overall concern of manufacturers, and manufacturers of engineering building components were found to experience the most difficulties. The paper concludes with a discussion and recommendations to improve synergies between primary and secondary wood producers in British Columbia.Key words: value-added wood products, wood quality, supply chain management, customer-oriented manufacturing Plusieurs pays sont tentés de renforcer le développement du secteur industriel de transformation secondaire pour faire face à la perte d'emploi découlant de la réduction de la possibilité annuelle de coupe, l'accroissement de la compétition mondiale et la diminution des prix des produits courants de bois de sciage. Cet article décrit les résultats d'un sondage effectué dans la province de ColombieBritannique visant à découvrir les obstacles dans les relations liées aux approvisionnements de bois entre les manufacturiers du secteur secondaire et primaire. Cette étude examine les besoins en matière brute pour différentes catégories de manufacturiers secondaires en ce qui a trait à la qualité du bois, le prix et le service et souligne les similitudes et les différences entre ces groupes. De façon générale, cette étude a permis d'identifier que la plupart des manufacturiers secondaires connaissent des problèmes d'approvisionnement en bois. Les questions relatives au classement du bois touchent l'ensemble des manufacturiers et les manufacturiers de composantes de bois d'ingénierie se sont révélés être ceux qui connaissent le plus de difficultés. Cet article se termine par une discussion et des recommandations pour améliorer les synergies entre les producteurs de bois du secteur primaire et secondaire en Colombie-Britannique. Mots clés: produits à valeur ajoutée, qualité du bois, gestion de la chaîne d'approvisionnement, transformation ciblée sur le client IntroductionThe secondary wood products industry in British Columbia is currently at a critical juncture in its development, its growth hinging on a number of economically related factors. One important factor is the sector's ability to procure consistent supplies of solid wood raw materials, which is something of a paradox, given that British Columbia produced approximately 13 bill...

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