Greenmantle Forest Inc. provides forestry-related consulting and support services for landowners, forest industry, government, and industrial project proponents.
Contact us with your project to see how GFI can help.
Our forest-related consulting and support services include:
Ontario Registered Professional Forester Services
- Forest management planning and reporting
- Prescriptions for forest operations and the protection of sensitive features
- Prescriptions for forest renewal / site rehabilitation
- Vegetation management planning
- Mill facility business planning
GIS Data Management & Mapping
- Forest mapping
- Base feature mapping – roads, infrastructure, lakes, streams
- Digital data updates and corrections
Digital Imagery Interpretation & Classification
- 2D and 3D imagery analysis
- Forest ecosystem classification and interpretation of forest and non-forest attributes
- Forest Resource Inventory preparation and updates
Forest Access Planning & Construction
- Field location of forest access routes
- Road centreline location ribboning and ribboning of sensitive values / features
- Aggregate source investigations
- Water crossing watershed analysis and water crossing structure designs including snow/ice packs, culverts & bridges (all season / winter)
- Analysis of access alternatives using LIDAR and forest information for road-based, off road, and helicopter access
Road Right of Way & Infrastructure Footprint Clearing
- Evaluation of vegetation and timber types of clearing plans
- Boundary ribboning for environmentally sensitive areas
- Wood disposal alternative planning
Environmental
- Vegetation assessments
- Desktop assessment and field confirmation of riparian features to be protected / mitigated
- Design field procedures for boundary marking, cut control and identification of sensitive / riparian features
Permitting
- Work permits, forest resource licences, overlapping licence agreements, highway entrance permits, aggregate permits, wood measurement agreements, pile burning plan
- Water crossing design and permitting for bridges, culverts, snow / ice packs
- Advise on applicable policy governing the permitting, installation, and removal of water crossings
- Provide professional response to regulating bodies’ concerns about project details
Timber Measurement & Valuation
- Desktop and field-based timber volume estimates based on forest resource inventory information / field assessment — Private and Crown land
- Timber valuation based on current commercial marketability
- Wood measurement services (timber scaling)