Here is my input to Minister Doug Donaldson’s invitation to comment on the “Forest and Range Practices Act’ Improvement Initiative: Renewal and Resilience.” Click here to read my full report, “Conservation of Resilience, Renewal and Complexity in B.C.’s Forests”.
All we really need to know on this topic was previously said by First Nations in BC and Native Americans in the USA.
“The Nu Chun Nulth have shown the way. Their word, “heshook-ish tsawalk” means, “everything is one”.
Near the end of my report I refer to the Menominee Native Americans in Wisconsin. Menominee Tribal Enterprises have been managing their 94,000 ha forest in Wisconsin to this high standard for a hundred and fifty years.
Forester Marshall Pecore says the key is to “save all the pieces.”
We have an opportunity to give the NDP Govt. input re forestry preservation until July 15. If you have not already done so, please give your input and send this request to your networks.
“The current Government could not do better than returning to the Forest Resource and Industry Management Regimes that were in place during the previous NDP Government (prior to the Campbell Liberal regime). There is no need to reinvent anything. All the correct policies, legislation, procedures etc exist in the archives. Bring it back.”