Posted in Aboriginal Title and Rights, Forestry, News on Mar 30th, 2009 Comments Off on BC government getting ready to massively restructure forest science funding and programs
Rumours have been flying over the state of BC’s Forest Science Program. Research grant funding was supposed to have been announced March 20th. However no news has come forward formally. PriceWaterhouseCooper staff had this to say March 30th (PwC administers the FSP reserach program): There’s been a delay in sending notifications out to Full Proposal […]
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Posted in Forestry on Mar 15th, 2006 Comments Off on Forest Policy Changes Needed to Create a New Relationship with First Nations in BC
On March 13 as part of the BC Forum on Forest Economics and Policy, Chief David Walkem, BScF, MBA, RPF, President, Stuwix Resources Ltd. gave a presentation at UBC First Nations House of Learning. The subject of the talk was Forest Policy Changes Needed to Create a New Relationship with First Nations in BC – […]
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Posted in Forestry on Mar 11th, 2006 Comments Off on Victory for First Nations in the Great Bear Rainforest?
On February 7th 2006, environmentalists claimed victory when the provincial government announced their plan for the protection of the Great Bear Rainforest. After a decade of conflict which attracted international attention and culminated in 1999 with the boycott of wood and paper products derived from the GBR by large companies including Lowe’s, Ikea and the […]
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