About 10 years ago, the concept of sustainable development became popular on the world stage through the report of the United Natlons Brundtland Cornmission. The logic behind the concept was difficult to refute, and indeed Canada's forestry sector seemed to be genaally comfortable with the tenn. Part of the reason for this was that several generations of Canadian foresters had fecognmd the economic, social and envhmental values of forests. Some foresters believed strongly that the forest landscape could support a variety of human uses without destroying the integrity of the forest. One of these was Doug Little, who put the idea in the language of the operational manager "'I believe the forests can be in bony with name, its wealth shared and peplaced with one that is at least as good, me that would ttme." I nwa had the opportunity to meet Doug Little, but I can tell from reading and hearing about him rhat he would have been quite comfortable with the concept of sustainable forestry; indeed, he probably would have been one of the leaders in coverhg the concept into reality.

Model forest, Adaptatation, Canada