Prominent among these is the Crown Forest Sustainability Act. The Forest Compliance Strategy encompasses all legislation and policy that pertain to operations in Crown forests. While the focus will be on the users of forest resources on Crown land in Ontario, some of the strategies and actions are appropriate to guide private land forestry. This document serves three key functions. It guides policy development, provides direction for compliance and describes how compliance will be achieved.
Compliance is adherence to a set of rules or requirements.
The compliance program will be delivered through broad range of education, encouragement, monitoring and enforcement efforts that ensure resource users take appropriate action. Compliance actions are primarily used to assist in the achievement of the sustainability of forest ecosystems. Compliance requires that action in a forest be conducted in a socially responsible, economically efficient, environmentally sensitive and sustainable manner. The rights and privileges to use forest resources carry responsibility and accountability for good stewardship. Increased compliance partnerships with resource users and cooperative arrangements amongst governments, industry and agencies will contribute to successful compliance.