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Thanks for clarifying Jason.

Several weeks ago we started on this vision strategy and tactics outline (Link here). This is admittedly unfinished, but we were curious if it had resonance as a framework to unburden the “Vision” from trying to do too much onits own. Strategies are not a vision. And tactics are not a strategy. It feels to us that these are getting a bit mixed up.

I would love to hear what anyone else thinks of this. Here it is pasted-in (but comments in the Google doc link above would be more helpful)

Vision Statement

In light of the unfolding climate crisis, and the role of both the built environment and the world’s forest in this crisis, we envision a built environment made up of a substantially increased proportion of lng lived wood building materials whose growth, manufacturing and use contributes to maintaining or increasing the multifold benefits of the world’s forest stocks.

Strategies to Achieve the Vision

This vision hinges on several interdependent “systems thinking” strategies (fields of effort):

  1. Holistic forest management includes the big picture of forests, in terms of scale, priorities, multiple forest services, uses and different forest contexts such as ecological, cultural, and regulatory and market.

  2. Forest conservation, restoration and preservation are vital and fully integrated in the big picture (systems) of forest management and growth.

  3. The forest products industry is increasingly reflective, responsible and efficient, and is capable and willing to measure and demonstrate the costs and benefits of production approaches with respect to the overarching vision.

  4. Markets are transformed to (are able to) appropriately respond to the costs and benefits of wood playing a larger role in the built environment and in forest stock improvement.

  5. Regulatory systems move toward becoming globally congruent, clear, enforceable and responsive to the need to protect the common legacy of forests while supporting the innovation that will improve production, conservation and the market response to wood product alternatives, and forest stock benefits.

Tools and Tactics to Support the Strategies

To be successful these strategies will employ a very wide variety of tools and tactics depending on contextual factors.

Some examples of these tools and tactics include:

  • Forest certification schemes that are robust, transparent and accessible

  • Protected areas, such as high conservation forests and old growth forests

  • Low impact logging techniques

  • Minimum standards for forest harvesting based on geographic context (min rotations, riparian protections etc.) with high level of regional enforcement

  • Plantation forests, including monoculture plantations

  • Genetic engineering of tree variants

  • Community forest management regimes proposed for local people (indigenous and non)

  • Indigenous land rights allow for unique forest management regimes

  • Highly-technical efficiency-driven management methods and machines

  • Government tax incentives for ____________

  • International agreements, tariffs,

  • Federations and consortiums representing forest protection and forest products producers

  • Increased consumer awareness (advertising, communication campaigns) to improve market sensitivity

  • Cultural advocacy, capacity, vocabulary to support the formation and spread of shared values around forest and built environment.

  • Embargos and public shaming of bad actors who allow desecration of global forest legacies for purely personal gain.

  • International tribunal for “crimes against nature”

Here is the do