Selling standing Timber Workshop, 2005

About Us

Upper Canada Woods Cooperative
Marketing Coordinator
P.O.Box 23134
Belleville, ON
K3P 5J3

marketing@ucwc.ca

HOW IT WORKS

Membership is open to individuals, businesses and other forest ownership entities.

A UCWC representative will do an initial assessment of the new member’s forest including a preliminary inventory of habitat diversity, understory species and growing stock.

The UCWC will work with the member to develop a Sustainable Forest Management Plan and to seek funding to offset the cost of the plan. The UCWC will coordinate the tree marking and volume estimates of areas being harvested.

Harvesting Eastern White Cedar for the Charles Daley Boardwalk Project, 2005

Logging will be subcontracted to trained crews and supervised by UCWC representatives.

Horse logging crews, cable skidders and tractor winch systems will be used as circumstances require – always
with the goal of minimal disturbance of the site.

Low-grade wood will be sold to the best available markets (pulp, pallets, and firewood). Higher-grade wood will be kept by the Co-op and direct marketed or processed into value-added products.

The UCWC sort yard will pool logs from several members’ harvest to create truckload quantities.

Higher-grade lumber will enter the UCWC manufacturing operation for kiln drying and value-added processing
for flooring, millwork, architectural-grade lumber etc.

THE DETAILS

A one-time membership fee of $200. will buy two shares in the co-op and cover the cost of the initial forest assessment.

Member services (site visits, management plans, tree marking, logging, etc.) will be billed to the forest owner. A percentage of the value added profit will be used by the Coop for capital expansion and educational services.

MEMBER SERVICES

Education

• Forest owner field days
• Bi-annual newsletter
• Workshops on forestry, marketing and non-timber forest products

Forestry

• Forest management plan coordination
• Tree marking
• Timber sale administration
• Harvest management and supervision

Marketing

• Annual lumber auction
• Access to local log and lumber markets
• Updates on market trends and current log/lumber pricing

Equipment Loan

• Access to forestry equipment such as pruning saws, tree planting machine backpack sprayers, brush cutters

Log Scaling and Lumber Grading Workshop, 2004

A Special Thanks To Our Supporters

The following organizations have contributed financial and advisory assistance to help the Upper Canada Woods Cooperative Limited get started and begin to implement its mission statement. The U.C.W.C. would not exist in its present form without this generous support and our members would like to thank all of you for believing in our concept and mission. With your help, we will succeed in improving and restoring the forests of our members, and proving that by ensuring that our forests really do come first, everyone wins!

• Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Co-operative Development Institute
• Frontenac Community Futures Development Corporation
• Frontenac Stewardship Council
• Hastings County Stewardship Council
• Lennox & Addington Community Stewardship Council
• Municipal Affairs (The Resource Jump Team)
• Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
• OMAFRA (The Resource Jump Team)
• Ontario Stewardship
• Ontario Woodlot Association
• Peterborough Stewardship Council
• The Co-operators General Insurance Company
• The Government of Canada