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Russell Collier,Tom Hobby
This article summarizes several examples of management approaches used by First Nations currently managing for non-timber forest resources (NTFRs). It outlines recurring themes that underlie these approaches, and highlights noteworthy accomplishments or ...
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Natasha Caverley
The mountain pine beetle (MPB) infestation has created momentum for change in British Columbia. Over the past 3 - 4 years, the formation of collaborative networks and other innovative partnerships, such as the First Nations Mountain Pine Beetle Initiativ...
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Deborah Curran
While international instruments and a few state governments endorse the ?free, prior and informed consent? of Indigenous peoples in decision-making about the water in their traditional territories, most state water governance regimes do not recognize Ind...
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Rachel Arsenault, Sibyl Diver, Deborah McGregor, Aaron Witham and Carrie Bourassa
First Nations communities in Canada are disproportionately affected by poor water quality. As one example, many communities have been living under boil water advisories for decades, but government interventions to date have had limited impact. This paper...
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Chelsea Nilausen, Nancy Gélinas and Gary Bull
The forest sector in British Columbia (BC) has faced a number of challenges over the past decade. In response to some of those challenges, the government has invested in forest genomic tools. Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is a biotechnological tool tha...
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Alan Wiensczyk,Julie Schooliing
The unprecedented magnitude of the current mountain pine beetle (mpb) outbreak in British Columbia has raised many questions about the effects that the infestation and resultant salvage harvesting will have on the environment and on the socio-economic fa...
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Gordon Butt,Don McMillan
In 1995, the Clayoquot Sound Scientific Panel submitted a report with 170 recommendations that fundamentally changed forest management as it had been traditionally practiced in the Sound. The Scientific Panel's report represents an early case study of ec...
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Ajit Krishnaswamy,Ellen Simmons,Larry Joseph
It is predicted that climate change has increased the frequency and intensity of natural disturbances and weather related natural disasters. Rural forest-based communities are especially vulnerable to changes in natural disturbance regimes influenced by ...
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Lisa Ambus,D'Arcy Davis-Case,Darcy Mitchell,Stephen Tyler
Holders of small forest tenures are largely ?market loggers,? selling undifferentiated raw logs into fluctuating local and regional markets at low margins. However, these tenure holders have potential advantages in responding to the changes currently und...
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