RE-FOREST / IntelliSynthesis Templates

IntelliSynthesis Templates

From OnTrackNorthAmerica

These are references for creating a comprehensive dialogue around the RE-FOREST Industrial Systems Initiative.

Components of all Continental, National, State/Province, and Local Action Plans:

  1. Multi-layer GIS mapping of forests, logistics infrastructure, woods products companies, and political jurisdictions
  2. Forest recovery and treatment plans
  3. Optimal harvesting-to-processing plans for multiple value streams
  4. Stakeholder roles and participation plan (who is doing what)
  5. Transportation and logistics plans
  6. Equipment plans
  7. Month-by-month expense and revenue plans
  8. Sustaining organization and governance design

Templates

  • Background - These are the foundational questions for North America in general that can then be applied to each region.
  • Stakeholders - These questions elicit local knowledge and stakeholder information.
  • Material Supply - This round illuminates healthy forest treatment prescriptions and consequent material supply.
  • Logistics and Processing - These questions pinpoint current and needed logistics and processing capacities and opportunities.