The British Columbia government wants First Nations to reach consensus before logging is deferred in old\u002Dgrowth forests on shared Indigenous territories.
Tara Marsden, sustainability director for the Gitanyow Nation’s hereditary chiefs’ office in northwestern B.C., said consensus represents a “high bar” in a complex process, which was not made clear when Forests Ministry staff introduced the province’s deferral plan last November.
The B.C. government announced last fall that an independent panel of ecologists and forestry experts had mapped 2.6 million hectares of old-growth forests at risk of permanent biodiversity loss. It asked 204 First Nations to determine within 30 days whether they supported the temporary deferral of logging in those areas, or if they needed more time to decide.
Any deferrals would initially last two years, allowing for consultation with First Nations about forestry in their territories, the minister said last fall. The province was clear that 50,000 hectares of the 2.6 million identified by the panel overlap with cutting permits approved before November, it said.
The Forests Ministry later told The Canadian Press the deferrals in Gitanyow territory were implemented “with the exception of a small localized area.” Terry Teegee, regional chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations, said the province’s old-growth deferral process is still “a space where there’s a lot of unknowns” and more clarity is needed when it comes to shared territories.
Gitanyow’s situation underscores what Marsden sees as a problem with B.C.’s deferral process — a lack of compensation for First Nations and forestry companies that could lose revenue if old growth is off limits.Article content “We are respecting nations’ wants, wishes and needs, and that’s part of reconciliation. We need to respect that if a nation is involved in harvesting … we need to respect that. If they want to defer, we need to respect that.”
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