Resources North Association is a new society constituted by bringing together the Integrated Resource Management Partnership of Northern British Columbia (the "IRM Partnership") and the former McGregor Model Forest Association (MMFA). The combining of these two organizations strengthens the previous relationship between the groups and capitalizes on their synergies.

Resources North is undertaking an innovative and ambitious five-year program working with communities to integrate their needs into land and resource management plans. The association was successful in their funding application to Natural Resources Canada’s Forest Communities Program (FCP), totaling almost $1.5M over five years. The FCP replaces the Canadian Model Forest Program, which concluded at the end of September 2007, after 15 years in operation.

Resources North has initial project areas of interest in South Peace, Mackenzie, and Vanderhoof-Fort St James, where local partnerships will begin to address critical Integrated Resource Management issues. There are growing interests from communities and sectors for this proposed work. The interest has never been higher in the north to work at solutions that derive additional long-term benefits, reduce the environmental footprint, and facilitate analysis and decision-making that take a more integrative approach across the active sectors and communities.