Independent Forest Audits

Our teams' skills and procedures developed over ten years of auditing consistently meet the government's and forest industry's expectations. For more information see Independent Forest Audits.

First Nations Business Ventures

• KBM has pursued successful joint ventures in site preparation and business development with the First Nations. We have negotiated co-management of new forest operations in traditional territory as well as leading training and community development projects. For more information see First Nations Business Ventures.
  

• KBM completed the successful establishment of Greenmantle Forest Inc., in which 48 small, independent logging contractors in the Thunder Bay and Nipigon Districts have majority ownership. This represents a unique forest tenure in Ontario since the company and license is owned by small independent contractors rather than large forest industry companies.
  

• The Biodiversity Assessment Project (BAP) is designed to predict the potential impacts of various forest management strategies on the biological values of the forest. BAP includes three levels of analysis: ecosystem diversity, landscape configuration and species-specific habitat supply. The ecosystem diversity and landscape configuration level describes general future forest conditions (i.e., tree species distribution). The species-specific habitat supply analysis consists of species specific Habitat Supply Models (HSMs) for 17 species.