Enhancing Local Activity and Values from forest land through community-led strategic planning.

ELAVs three key issues:

1. Planning – how to develop community involvement with the strategic forest planning process at a sub-regional scale.
2. Rural Development Opportunities – how to design new forests and adapt forest management regimes to optimise a full range of rural development opportunities.
3. Silvicultural expertise – how to develop and disseminate the silvicultural expertise to support and implement community aspirations for forest design and management.