The Okanagan Innovative Forestry Society (OIFS) is a registered non profit Society made up of forest companies and two First Nations Tribal Councils. This includes Federated Co-operatives Limited, Gorman Bros. Lumber Ltd., LP Canada Ltd., Okanagan Nations Alliance, Selkirk Timber Company, Shuswap Nation Tribal Council, Stella-Jones Canada Inc., Tolko Industries Ltd., Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd., and the Ministry Forests, Lands ,Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO)   BC Timber Sales Branch in the Okanagan Timber Supply Area to administer Innovative Forestry Practices Agreements through one common cooperative organization.

The investment programs and activities are identified by the OIFS in a cooperativeForestry Plan 2007 which  guides on the ground innovative forest practices in the Okanagan Timber Supply Area.
This web site has been designed to provide direct public access to the Forestry Plan 2007 outlining the proposed programs and activities being undertaken by the OIFS.  The Society has prepared   Forestry Plan 2011  for review and comment and the 2011  is now available on this website.      

Following 10 years of program investment,  the Society has completed  Vegetation Resource Inventory,   a  Predictive Ecosystem Mapping  of the forestlands within  Okanagan-Shuswap  Forest District,    and has reduced the knowledge gaps in the management of  forest practices within  Mountain Caribou,  and Pine Marten habitat .        

The Society has also been instrumental  in providing government with scientific information sufficient  for the  Regional Executive Director of the Southern Interior Forest Region to release the “ Okanagan TSA – Innovative forestry Practices Agreements - Rationale for Increase in Allowable Annual Cut (AAC) Determination  in the Okanagan Timber Supply Area”   effective January 1, 2006.   The  updated Forestry Plan 2011  provides the updated rational to support an extension of the   IFPA AAC uplift  in the Okanagan Timber Supply Area.