The
Canadian Forest Service (CFS) is a sector of the
Canadian government department of
Natural Resources Canada. Part of the federal government since 1899, the CFS is a science-based policy organization responsible for promoting the
sustainable development of Canada's
forests and competitiveness of the forest sector to benefit present and future Canadians. Some of the research areas that the CFS is involved in include; forest fire, climate change,
silviculture, soils, insects and disease, remote sensing and
forest management. Since 1991 the sector has produced an annual report,
The State of the Forest in Canada [1] which describes the status of the nation's forests and the forest industry.