118-First Nations Forestry with Dave Gill and Jordan Coble
March 16, 2022 - YourForest Podcast
What would forestry look like if Indigenous cultural values were the driving force behind management decisions, instead of western values? How would it be different? What would it mean to put timber as a secondary priority to ecosystem health? What if the primary intention of harvesting was to accomplish some ecosystem goal? What happens to the ecosystem? The community? The money? Let’s find out.
Resources - Westbank First Nation: https://www.wfn.ca/
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Quotes:
11.22 - 11.34: “I really want to be that voice for the trees, the voice for the land itself, the voice for the water, and all the things that haven’t had a voice up until this point or a limited voice at the very least.”
24.19 - 24.25: “The forestry industry as a whole is a very tight-knit community - everybody seems to know everybody.”
27.30 - 27.47: “How do we find that balance of getting people on the land and doing the work that they want to do, that they are passionate about doing and that they love doing, with making sure that they are doing it in a way that’s respectful to all the living creatures in the area, all the other trees that serve as homes for those folks.”
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