Clayoquot FCP
Last week, Hesquiaht elder Dolores Bayne and I set out on a journey that would carry the ancestral teachings of the Hesquiaht Nation across the country. We travelled to Ottawa to present at the annual meeting of the Food Security Reference Group.
Some big ideas and powerful partnerships are coming out of Ecotrust Canada’s small Clayoquot office on the Tofino dock.
A $63,000 portable sawmill is slated to arrive in the small harbour at Ahousaht by the end of November and its elected chief couldn't be more excited, writes Sarah Douziech in the Westerly Ne
TOFINO, BC -- The Clayoquot Biosphere Trust and the Clayoquot Forest Communities Program are seeking business input for a comprehensive economic analysis covering the Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve region and adjacent communities.
Ecotrust Canada is turning its attention to ways local communities can extract more value from the area's timber.
The article Woods War II by Konrad Yakabuski appeared in the October 2008 issue of the Globe and Mail Report on Business Magazine.Konrad Yakabuski’s examination of the ongoing debate about the future of Clayoquot Sound’s forests is timely and important. His story in Report on Business (ROB) magazine does an excellent job of capturing the remarkable complexity of issues that continue to defy easy answers.
Search "native" and "unemployment" in The Globe and Mail'sarchives from 1977 to the present, and you'll get hundreds of hits. The stories chronicle years of spiralling poverty on reserves, Third World housing and escalating suicide rates.
Clayoquot Sound was a historic green victory. But now the coalition that barred forestry from Canada's last, best place has come unstuck. With natives logging for themselves, will things come to blows amid the old growth?
Feasibility Study
The new Hesquiaht School in Hot Springs Cove, opened in August 2008, is constructed of timber harvested and processed in Hesquiaht traditional territory.project name:Feasibility StudyA new value-added forestry study lays out a long-term, phased approach to growing a more robust, value-added industry in Clayoquot Sound.
Forest Communities Program
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