Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Research Question Will the commercialization of mass timber construction…

- - - - "As a plant that has ensured the survival of people for thousands of years, cedar has become a powerful symbol of strength and revitalization. The deep respect for cedar is a rich tradition that spans thousands of years and continues to be culturally, spiritually, and economically important."
      - "The cedar tree is considered the “tree of life” by the Kwakwaka’wakw."
      - "When gathering the bark in the spring time when the sap was running, words of thanks (which some people call prayer) were always said to the trees. These words would thank the tree for giving of its bark to help make life easier for the community. It was believed that without this giving of thanks natural resources could be taken away."
      - https://umistapotlatch.ca/enseignants-education/cours_4-lesson_4-eng.php
    - - "Cedar was widely valued for its healing abilities. Yellow Cedar bark, which has anti-inflammatory properties, was frequently applied as a dressing for wounds, as a tourniquet, or to ward off evil."
    - - House frontal poles (Haida Heritage Centre)
      - Cedar basket (Living Heritage Society)
  - - - "Early logging practices did not factor in Indigenous relationships to the land or the traditional and cultural significance of forests to First Peoples."
      - "By the time BC entered confederation in 1871, the province was recognized globally for the superior quality of its timber."
      - "The rate that the forests were being logged and ecosystems destroyed with no regard for Indigenous values, beliefs or traditional knowledge caused great concern amongst Indigenous Peoples, and others, in the province."
    - - Meares Island Case (1985)
        
        https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/meares-island-case-ongoing
        
        "The Meares Island confrontation is seen as a turning point in that it was the first time Aboriginal title was considered important enough to justify an injunction against logging."
- - - - "Out on the West Coast here with the Musqueam, the Salish, the Tsleil-Waututh, and a lot of the other Salish-speaking nations, cedar was used for everything – basket weaving, canoes, all kinds of things. An elder told me, "cedar's the blood of our culture." (Alfred Waugh)
      - https://formline.ca/
    - - "Its zero-carbon emissions design, and its ability to store thousands of tonnes of carbon in its sustainably harvested mass timber wood structure, will be an important precedent in both Canada and around the world." (Craig Applegath, DIALOG)
      - https://www.smokearchitecture.com/ and https://www.dialogdesign.ca/
    - - "The physical expression of the building draws upon the traditional Tla’Amin cedar shed in its form, and incorporates an abundance of Band-supplied red and yellow cedar in its heavy timber structure and siding."
      - https://dev.mmal.ca/
  - - - https://nuuchahnulth.org//
      - "In Nuu-chah-nulth culture, the teachings of responsibility and respect for the land are passed down by our Elders as soon as our lives are conceived, and they continue until we die. These teachings are cornerstones of our culture, but they are foreign concepts to the provincial government and industry, who view our old growth forests as limitless resources to be plundered."
  - - - National Aboriginal Forestry Association (NAFA)
        
        "To promote and support increased Aboriginal involvement in forest management and related commercial opportunities, while staying committed to holistic or multiple-use forestry, to build sustainable Aboriginal communities."
        
        http://www.nafaforestry.org/index.html
      - BC First Nations Forestry Council
        
        https://www.forestrycouncil.ca/
        
        "The BC First Nations Forestry Council is a non-profit society that seeks to support and advocate for the role BC First Nations should play as the rightful owners of forest lands and resources including access to an equitable share of the benefits derived from forestry activities within their traditional territories."
      - Nature United
        
        "We are working to protect one of the world’s last intact coastal temperate rainforest for the next generation while addressing climate and social justice issues that have eroded old-growth forests, wild salmon runs, and the economic well-being of communities."
        
        Funded by the Jeff Bezos Earth Fund
        
        https://www.natureunited.ca/newsroom/bezos-earth-fund-clayoquot-sound-emerald-edge/
        
        https://www.natureunited.ca/
    - - Indigenous-lead Commercial Logging
        
        Tanizul Timber
        
        As the largest aboriginal forestry operation in BC, Tanizul provides much-needed jobs for local aboriginal people and boosts the community economy
        
        https://www.tanizultimber.com/
      - Non-Indigenous-lead Commercial Logging
        
        "In my 12 years as a logger in Clayoquot Sound, I witnessed the destruction of some of the biggest trees and finest old growth forests I had ever seen. I witnessed the decimation of salmon streams, once teeming with steelhead, chum and coho, due to the clearcutting of entire valleys and landslides on the steep mountain slopes." (Joe Martin)
    - - Provincial Reform 2019 (NDP)
        
        “Through the forest policy reforms I’m announcing today, we will see more logs and fibre processed in B.C., supporting B.C. workers, their families and communities.”(John Horgan, Summer 2019)
        
        Note that there is no mention of the unceded traditional territory that this fibre will be coming from
        
        https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019PREM0003-000046
      - BC Forest Industry: Economic Impact Study
        
        https://www.cofi.org/wp-content/uploads/bc_industry_impact_01-2015-1.pdf
        
        "Since 2002, the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations has signed forest tenure agreements with 175 of the 203 First Nations in BC. These agreements provide $324 million in resource revenue-sharing and access to 63.2 million cubic meters of timber."
        
        Note: Over $4.6 billion dollars in lumber exports come from BC (every year)...
      - United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Canada signed in 2010)
        
        Article 26: "Articulates a right to lands and resources on those lands including ownership, use, development and control. This article also states that governments must give legal recognition and protection to these lands and resources, guided by respectful engagement with the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the Indigenous people concerned."
        
        https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples.html
    - - Haida Decision (2004)
        
        "The Council of the Haida Nation brought an action against the Provincial Crown and Weyerhaeuser Company Limited for not properly consulting with the Haida Nation when renewing a tree farm licence on Haida Gwaii"
        
        "By a unanimous (7-0) decision delivered by Chief Justice McLachlin, the Supreme Court of Canada went a long way toward providing the clarity and direction arising from Delgamuukw decision and the Court of Appeal decisions in Haida Nation and Taku River Tlingit. The strongly worded judgment makes two issues very clear. First, both orders of government have an inescapable Constitutional duty to consult and accommodate Aboriginal communities, in a manner that is meaningful, timely and reflective of the “honour of the Crown”, regarding potential infringement on an Aboriginal right or title."
        
        Haida Decision (2004) [1] Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests) 2004 SCC 73
- - - - Will the health of the forests and the preservation of ecological habitat outweigh the apparent benefits of mass timber construction in the future?
- - - - This is the foundation for what I hope will become a comprehensive body of knowledge over time