Creating the conditions for sustainable community forestry in British Columbia: A case study of the Kaslo and District Community Forest

There is widespread interest in exploring the viability of community forestry as a potential solution to the problems facing forest management and forest-dependent communities in British Columbia. The goal of community forestry to strike a balance between economic, social and ecological values is not easy to attain. With the aim of improving our understanding of how to achieve this goal, this research explores the conditions that enable sustainable community forestry through a study of the Kaslo Community Forest in the Kootenay region of B.C.;Through the case study, the enabling conditions for sustainable community forestry are analyzed, and a few factors not previously mentioned in the community forestry literature are identified.;This research results in a list of enabling conditions that I propose to be necessary for sustainable community forestry. In addition, the analysis also permits me to hypothesize which conditions are particularly important for ecological sustainability in community forest management. Many of the most important conditions are interrelated and success is most likely where there is synergy among the conditions. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).