Research, part of a Special Feature on Crossing Scales and Disciplines to Achieve Forest Sustainability Indigenous Knowledge and Values in Planning for Sustainable Forestry: Pikangikum First Nation and the Whitefeather Forest Initiative

Although still posing challenges, science-based knowledge (including interdisciplinary work) is leading current forest-management planning. How then can indigenous communities mobilize their own knowledge to support their desire to develop new ways of managing the forest? In northern Ontario, the provincial government has developed a cross-scale planning approach that allocates certain responsibilities to First Nations in order to support their vision and knowledge, yet at the same time addresses provincial planning goals. Within this context, research on woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) was conducted in collaboration with Pikangikum First Nation to support their participation in forest-management planning. The outcomes of this research are used as a focal point for discussing some of the stressors that influence cross-scale planning for forestry in northern Ontario. The paper concludes that resolving cultural differences in a forest- management planning context is not entirely necessary to move forward with collaborative planning for the conservation of woodland caribou habitat.

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Unknown venue

• Publication date

  2008-02-26

• Fields of study

  Geography, Sociology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.5751/ES-02284-130106
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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