Non-timber forest products in British Columbia: The past meets the future on the forest floor

Mitchell, Darcy

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“…Many First Nations communities feel that their unique relationship and attachment to wild plants for food, medicine, and ceremonial purposes are insufficiently recognized and protected (Mitchell 1998, Wyatt et al 2011. As well, for some communities, herbicides may also be seen to limit their opportunities for developing non-timber forest products (e.g., mushrooms, blueberries) in culturally appropriate and sustainable ways (Mitchell 1998).…”

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“…As well, for some communities, herbicides may also be seen to limit their opportunities for developing non-timber forest products (e.g., mushrooms, blueberries) in culturally appropriate and sustainable ways (Mitchell 1998). The wild plants of concern to First Nations people are not isolated to specific plant communities or areas that can be delineated on a map and protected from aerial herbicide spraying, but rather they are widespread across the landscape.…”

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Understanding First Nations rights and perspectives on the use of herbicides in forestry: A case study from northeastern Ontario

Kayahara

Armstrong

2015

The Forestry Chronicle

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This article provides forestry professionals with an improved understanding of why First Nations are opposed to the use of chemical herbicides for silvicultural purposes on their traditional lands, based on a case study in northeastern Ontario. Results were generated using a modified form of a focus group approach. First Nations opposition to herbicide use involved not only concerns over human and environmental health (concerns common among the general public) but also spanned from treaty rights, mistrust, and respect issues to herbicide use being incongruent with traditional First Nations worldviews. The results illustrate that the science-education approach typically used to address public opposition to herbicides is neither adequate nor appropriate for addressing First Nations concerns. Instead, a more in-depth engagement and approach, centred on genuine respect for First Nations rights, culture and history, is needed to arrive at solutions that are consistent with each First Nation community's values and terms.Key words: First Nations, Aboriginal, Indigenous, traditional ecological knowledge, herbicides, forestry, perceptions, risk, worldviews, vegetation management, silviculture, boreal forest RÉSUMÉCet article permet aux forestiers professionnels de mieux comprendre pourquoi les Premières Nations s' opposent à l'utilisation des herbicides à des fins sylvicoles sur leurs terres ancestrales en s'appuyant sur une étude effectuée dans le nord-est de l'Ontario. Ces résultats ont été obtenus à l'aide d'une forme modifiée de groupes de discussion. L' opposition des Premières Nations à l'utilisation des herbicides ne résulte pas que de leur préoccupation pour la santé humaine et celle de l' environnement, qu'ils partagent d'ailleurs avec le public en général; elle repose aussi sur les droits définis par Traité, la méfiance, une question de respect et même sur le fait que l'utilisation d'herbicides va à l' encontre de la vision traditionnelle que les Premières Nations ont sur le monde. Les résultats montrent que l'approche par l' éducation scientifique que l' on adopte souvent pour contrer l' opposition publique aux herbicides n' est ni adéquate ni suffisante pour prendre en compte les préoccupations des Premières Nations. Il faut au contraire une démarche plus approfondie fondée sur un véritable respect des droits, de la culture et de l'histoire des Premières Nations pour trouver des solutions adaptées aux valeurs et aux conditions propres à chaque communauté des Premières Nations.

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Understanding First Nations rights and perspectives on the use of herbicides in forestry: A case study from northeastern Ontario

Kayahara

Armstrong

2015

The Forestry Chronicle

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“…PFNL incluent plus de 500 types produits d'origine végé-tale (Hadeler 1995, Davidson-Hunt 1998, Hall et al 1998, Mitchell 1998, Brubaker 1999, Hall et Yun 2000, Duchesne et al 2001a, Marles 2001) extraits de la forêt à des fins d'alimentation, de santé, d'habillage, d'artisanat, et de fabrication industrielle. Les Nations Unies incluent les viandes sauvages dans comme produits appartenant aux « produits de la forêt non bois » (FAO 2002), mais les chercheurs de l'Amérique du Nord excluent les produits animaux pour des raisons de gestion durable des ressources.…”

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L'aménagement des produits forestiers non ligneux et des ressources ligneuses des forêts canadiennes : besoins d'intégration et de recherche

Duchesne¹,

Wetze²

2003

The Forestry Chronicle

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Les produits forestiers non ligneux (PFNL) émergent sur la scène mondiale comme un outil pour l'établissement des communautés forestières durables. Ils représentent des emplois pour divers secteurs de la société, impliquent l'expertise et la culture locale et accroissent les retombées en provenance des forêts. Au cours des dernières années, les PFNL ont été sujets d'une attention accrue de la part du grand public, des gouvernements et des secteurs privés du Canada. Cependant, pour que l'industrie des PFNL puisse faire partie du courant principal de la culture industrielle canadienne, il est essentiel de tenter l'intégration de l'industrie des PFNL à celle de l'industrie du bois pour le bénéfice des deux secteurs. Les PFNL peuvent être récoltés dans quatre types d'environnement : les stocks naturels des forêts de production de bois, les stocks naturels des forêts sans production de bois, les stocks aménagés provenant de forêts sous aménagement intensif et les stocks domestiqués provenant des systèmes agricoles. Il existe plusieurs preuves qui laissent entendre que l'aménagement et la récolte de PFNL puissent servir de plusieurs façons les intérêts de l'industrie forestière. Il existe quatre types possibles d'interactions entre l'industrie des PFNL et l'industrie du bois: l'utilisation indépendante des ressources, la compétition pour les ressources, l'utilisation complémentaire des ressources et l'utilisation symbiotique des ressources. L'intégration des deux industries de façon durable, devra être appuyée par des recherches qui répondent aux questions économiques, sociales, politiques et écologiques. Mot-clés: PFNL, durabilité, biodiversité, foresterie communautaireNon timber forest products (NTFP) are emerging globally as a tool for the establishment of sustainable forest communities. They provide employment to various sectors of society, draw on local expertise and culture, and increase the outputs of forests. In recent years, NTFP have received accrued interest by the general public, governments and the private sectors of Canada. However, for the NTFP industry to enter mainstream Canadian industrial culture it is now critical to attempt the integration of the timber industry with the NTFP industry to benefit both sectors. NTFP can be harvested from four types of environment: wild stocks from timber-productive forests, wild stocks from non-timber-productive forests or lands, managed stocks from intensively managed forests, and domesticated stocks from agricultural systems. A large body of evidence suggests that NTFP management and harvest can serve the forest industry in many ways. There are four possible types of interaction between the NTFP and timber industries: independent resource use, competition for resources, complementary resource use and symbiotic resource use. Integration of both industries in a sustainable manner will need to be supported with research that address economic, social, policy and ecological questions.

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“…A t the beginning of the new millennium, British Columbia is following the lead of forest-based societies around the world in recognizing potential economic value, over and above the conventionally commercialized forest timber, in plants and fungi of forests and associated ecosystems (De Geus 1995;Mitchell 1998;Wills and Lipsey 1999). This accelerating interest in socalled "non-timber forest products" (also called "botanical forest products," or in some instances, "special forest products" 1 ) has occurred partly in response to peoples' concerns over clearcutting and projected declines in industrial forestry as a major economic force in the province.…”

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"Doing it right": Issues and practices of sustainable harvesting of non-timber forest products relating to First Peoples in British Columbia

Turner

2001

JEM

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This paper addresses concerns about commercial harvesting of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) that relate to First Peoples in British Columbia. Many of the species identified as being significant, or having potential significance as NTFPs, are culturally important to First Peoples as sources of food, material, and medicines, or for their spiritual values. While there may be potential for First Peoples to develop local economies from the harvesting, processing, and marketing of NTFPs, there also is widespread concern that traditional values may be lost, and traditional plant resources treated as commodities and exploited by commercial interests. Previous experiences with overharvesting cascara and Pacific yew bark lend substance to this concern.Aboriginal peoples have a long history of sustainable management of their lands and resources. Any proposed harvest and use of traditional resources should be under the control of, or in collaboration with, those First Peoples within whose traditional territory the resources are to be harvested. Applications of traditional management methods for NTFPs should be explored, but this should be done in collaboration with First Peoples and with full respect for their intellectual property rights.Principles of sustainable harvesting of NTFPs are presented that may prove useful in ongoing deliberations about how, or even whether, communities should pursue non-timber forest productsas a means of economic development.

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Non-timber forest products in British Columbia: The past meets the future on the forest floor

Cited by 5 publications

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Understanding First Nations rights and perspectives on the use of herbicides in forestry: A case study from northeastern Ontario

Understanding First Nations rights and perspectives on the use of herbicides in forestry: A case study from northeastern Ontario

L'aménagement des produits forestiers non ligneux et des ressources ligneuses des forêts canadiennes : besoins d'intégration et de recherche

"Doing it right": Issues and practices of sustainable harvesting of non-timber forest products relating to First Peoples in British Columbia

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