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The Review - Wednesday, December 11,1991 — A31

At last natives are becoming part of the equation

by Hubert Beyer,
Special to The Review

Victoria — Natives in British
Columbia came one step closer to
taking their rightful place in our
society with the release last week
of a report that urges broad partici-
pation of the Native community in
the management of the province’s
forest resource.

Even a cursory read of the report

~ by the Task Force on Native Fores-

try makes it clear that this is an
extraordinary document. Rather
than just advocating Native partic-
ipation in the economic spoils of
the resource, the report recom-
mends that Natives help shape
future management of the
resource.

“Native people have long held
forests and natural resources as
special. As native people become

_ more involved in forest manage-

ment within their traditional ter-
tories, ways must be found to
incorporate spiritual and cultural
values into modem forestry prac-
tices,” the report says.

The seven-member task force
consisted of four Natives and three
non-natives. The latter were all

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registered professional foresters.

The seven travelled all over the
province during the past 12
months, listening to presentations
and receiving written submissions
on a broad range of Native forestry
issues.

The outcome, as I mentioned, is
an extraordinary report whose
recommendations could reshape
the way we look at forests and
harvest them.

The report urges the govern-
ment, the forest industry and the
First Nations to “establish a viable
Native forest sector in British
Columbia that will assist First
Nations in job creation and com-
munity development.”

To achieve that goal, the reports
recommends that the forest minis-
try give “priority allocations” of
available allowable annual cuts to
Native forestry ventures, including
a First Nations Forest Licence
tenure.

It also recommends that the
University of B.C.’s Forestry Fac-
ulty and the new University of
Northern B.C include Native for-
estry courses in their curricula.

Native primary and secondary
schools, the report says, should
include forestry and natural
sciences in their curriculum to
prepare and encourage Native stu-
dents to become foresters and
forest technicians.

The report also suggests that

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TO SAVE THE LIFE of a choking baby, instructor Len Harman
shows Rebecca Warner how to hold the child during a

recent Babysitting Emergencies course at the Sidney. Fire
Hall. The Sidney Fire Prevention Department hosted the

course, which was attended by 15 students. Subjects
covered during the four evening sessions included fire and

home safety, use of portable extinguishers, home security,

first aid, earthquake precautions and cardio-pulmonary

resuscitation.

Heavy fine for second assault

A 45-year-old Saanichton man was fined $400 in Sidney
provincial court Thursday and placed on 15 months probation after
pleading guilty to assaulting his common-law spouse for the

second time.

Stephen Fudge said Calvin McKay attacked his estranged wife at
about 10 a.m. May 31 following an argument over a joint business
the two had operated. He hit the woman several times and
threatened to harm her and her son.

Fudge added that McKay was convicted in February of assault
following an attack on the same woman. The woman has now
moved to the Lower Mainland and is no longer in contact with

McKay, Fudge said.

Defence lawyer Fred Angene said the couple had been in a
common-law relationship for eight years. Since alcohol was part of
both assaults, Angene said McKay is now attempting to abstain

from drinking.

After imposing the fine and probation, Judge Wayne Smith

ling.

suggested McKay attend the family Violence Project for counsel-

Natives become more involved in
silviculture programs, and that a
Native Forestry Capital Pool be
created to enable Native compa-
nies and individuals to borrow
capital to establish forestry-related
economic ventures.

But the report goes beyond sim-
ply recommending that the Native
communities get a slice of the
economic forestry pie. It makes
quite clear that First Nations be
encouraged and assisted in partici-
pating in the integrated resource
management, local resource use
and timber supply area planning
processes through “full consulta-
tion involving the local Native
communities.”

“Traditionally, Native people
practiced a form of holistic fores-
try. In other words, they considered
all forest values including wildlife,
fish, trees, water, soil and plants
used for medicinal and spiritual
purposes,” the report says.

“Integrated forest management
includes these same values, and
also involved wildemess, recrea-
tion and parks. People are also an
important part of the forest envi-
ronment,” it adds.

The report warns that the time
for studies is over, and that action
1S Now necessary.

“The task force was aware of a
high degree of frustration among
Native people over the countless
studies of Native needs that have

produced no results. The task force
would like to see an ongoing
process that will begin to respond
to identified needs,” it says.

To that end, the report urges the
government to establish a perma-
nent First Nations Forestry Coun-
cil whose mandate will be to help
create Native forestry tenures, sil-
viculture programs and facilitate
joint ventures between First
Nations, government and industry.

Finally, the report urges the
provincial and federal govern-
ments to get on with the job of
settling Native land claims.

“Any form of Native ownership
or control of traditional territories
as part of the land claims settle-
ments will directly involve the
forests. First Nations view forestry
as a direct route to economic
self-sufficiency,” the report says.

“Control of the forest resource
is also viewed by First Nations as
the key to environmental and cul-
tural enhancement,” it adds.

But until the land claims ques-
tion has been settled, both First
Nations and the forest industry see
control of forest tenure as the most
effective way to have a secure
resource base for job creation and
economic development.

For Natives, the task force report
is yet another indication that
society is, at long last, beginning
to include them in the Canadian
equation.

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A SPECIAL PLATE is issued
in Nova Scotia to volun-
teer fire fighters. The plates
are the result of many
years of petitioning the
provinee*s motor vehicle
branch for a plate which
designates the vehicles of
volunteer fire fighters,
reports Larry Buchanan,
Sidney's fire prevention
Officer.

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19.

Many of the games will offer
turkeys or ham as prizes. The
bingo games will be held in the
Knights of Pythias Hall on Fourth
Street in Sidney. Doors open at
6:30 p.m. with bingo games start-
ing at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is free. Proceeds
from the sale of bingo cards will
support local charities.

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