Preface
This is the second edition of CSA PLUS 1136, The SFM Essentials: An introduction to CAN/CSA-Z809-02, Sustainable forest management: Requirements and guidance. It supersedes the first edition, published in 1998 under the title The SFM Essentials: An Introduction to the Sustainable Forest Management Standards.
This handbook assembles a variety of CSA and ISO materials to provide a convenient reference to SFM requirements and guidance, and incorporates comments and advice based on extensive experience in developing and implementing SFM standards.
CSA gratefully acknowledges the contributions of Tawney Lem for her work on Section 8 and Kathy Abusow for the overall development of this edition of The SFM Essentials.
About This Handbook
The objective of this handbook is to provide forest managers and forest management practitioners with a user-friendly guide with information and ideas to assist in implementing the requirements found in Canada's national sustainable forest management (SFM) Standard, CAN/CSA-Z809, Sustainable Forest Management: Requirements and Guidance.
This handbook includes all of the requirements and guidance found in the 2002 edition of CAN/CSA-Z809, but it also provides further information and implementation ideas on specific components of the Standard that are
- new to the 2002 edition of CAN/CSA-Z809, the CSA SFM Standard; or
- considered challenging by companies, based on their implementation experience.
