Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Nova Scotia. Provincial Forest Practices Improvement Board
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Description area
Dates of existence
1968-1986
History
The Provincial Forest Practices Improvement Board was established in 1968 under an amendment to the Forest Improvement Act. The mandate of the board, as set out in legislation in 1972, was to encourage better forest management practices in Nova Scotia through education, advocacy and enforcement of the Forest Improvement Act, to prepare a manual of good forestry practice, and to establish educational programs relating to forestry. However, key sections of the act giving the board wide powers to control tree cutting remained unproclaimed until December 1976. In 1980 the board published a manual, The Trees Around Us: A Manual of Good Forest Practice for Nova Scotia. In 1986, the board was replaced by the Nova Scotia Forestry Advisory Council.