Innovation Anthology #306:
One of the major achievements of the research done by the Sustainable Forest Management Network is the recognition of the role aboriginal people must play in the development of forest management policy.
The Network’s scientific director Dr Jim Fyles explains.
DR. JIM FYLES: There was a lot of work that was done over many years with the Little Red River Cree in the treaty area in northern Alberta. And that started off with work of anthropologists working with the communities in discussions around how the First Nations people saw the forest and saw forest management and the processes about how the forest worked and then capturing those kinds of things. And then articulating it in a way that was perhaps more accessible to forest managers and other researchers. And a couple of years ago a very interesting development in that area where the forest company that was managing the forest there took the results of that research and those consultations and built them into their forest management planning.
According to Dr. Jim Fyles, the company changed its practices to incorporate the traditional knowledge and values of the Little Red River Cree.
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Sustainable Forest Management Network
Established in 1995, The Sustainable Forest Management Network is one of Canada's 22 Networks of Centres of Excellence. The SFMN administrative center is hosted at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Network brings together top scientists, forest managers and practitioners, First Nations leaders and governments to address known and emerging challenges to forest sustainability.
Program Date: 2010-04-13