Book Description

In this context three sponsoring organizations - the National Aboriginal Forestry Association, the Forest Products Association of Canada, and the First Nations Forestry Program (a joint program of Natural Resources Canada, and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada) - commissioned the Institute On Governance to examine the current state of relationships between First Nations and the forestry industry. [...] Methodology In this context three sponsoring organizations - the National Aboriginal Forestry Association, the Forest Products Association of Canada, and the First Nations Forestry Program - commissioned the Institute on Governance to examine the current state of relationships between First Nations and the forestry industry. [...] The list of organizations to be interviewed (see Annex 2) was provided by one or more of the project sponsors, with the aim of achieving a diversity of perspectives within each category, and combining the breadth of the perspective of the associations and government officials with the depth of the particular experience of each First Nation and company. [...] Aboriginal and Forest Industry Relationships in B. C. 1 Objectives As set out in the project's terms of reference, the goals of this study are to provide: 1. A comparison to trends identified for British Columbia in the 1998 study; 2. An overview of Aboriginal Peoples' relationships with the forest industry in British Columbia by describing (a) the nature and scope of relationships with primary fo [...] However, the lack of technical, human, and financial resources and the lack of appropriate policy frameworks make it difficult for Aboriginal Peoples to participate in forest management and forest-based economic activities.17 The rest of this report expands on these conclusions in greater detail, and focuses in on the situation in British Columbia.