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WesternWestern piritVolume 2 Issue 1 Summer 2000 Produced by Western Forest Products Limited S WFP Sponsors More Students to NVIT and Enters into New Co-Sponsorship Scheme months of summer work placement. Courses such as natural resource management, silviculture, technical communications, resource measure- ments and soils and hyrdrology are thus combined with opportunities to directly apply knowledge in the workplace. The Program is maintaining a 90% retention rate, which Craig Noordmans, Program Coordinator, continued as NVIT, page 3 Western pirit Western ForestS Products Limited Western Spirit is an official newslet- NVIT First Nations Forest Technology Training Program 1999 students, Merritt, BC ter of Western Forest Products Ltd. photo: Craig Noordmans Content may be reproduced; however, we request that WFP estern Forest Prod- and the Council of Forest Industries and the author be credited. (COFI), who are continuing to work ucts is very pleased to Western Forest Products Limited W announce their sponsor- together to increase forestry knowl- #2300—1111 West Georgia Street ship of three new students edge and expertise among First Vancouver, BC V6E 4M3 to the 10-month Technical Nations communities. The program Tel: (604) 665–6200 Resource education program at the involves BC forest companies and Fax: (604) 665–6268 Nicola Valley Institute of Technology their neighbouring aboriginal commu- Website: www.westernforest.com (NVIT) in Merritt, which will begin in nities jointly sponsoring a First Editor: Dan Jepsen September 2000. Nations student for one year of Editorial Board: Larry Andrews, Bobby Forest Technician training at NVIT. Germyn, Ross Neasloss, George Watts The Forest Technician Training Pro- Six months of classroom training Editorial & Design: Dianna Bodnar Desktop Publishing: CPH Desktop gram began in 1997 as a cooperative is supplemented by a one-on-one effort among the BC Ministry of mentoring system with their spon- Printed on recycled stock. Forests, NVIT, Forest Renewal BC sor company and an additional six Please recycle this product. Building Espranza’s Youth Canoe— the Story in Pictures Charlie making paddles the “traditional” way Photo: Larry Andrews Charlie Mickey, carver, surveys the first stage of work. Made from a log from Bligh Island, the finished product is destined to be a youth canoe, for quest rows and other special functions. Photo: Larry Andrews Canoe under tarp to be steamed wider (expanded 9 inches) Photo: Larry Andrews Charlie and councillor Tom Smith look at the finished product. Photo: Larry Andrews 2 sponsor a student with another company would alleviate some of the pressure, so they approached Stan Price at Weyerhaeuser to discuss co-sponsoring the Heiltsuk student with WFP. Stan and senior managers within Weyerhaeuser supported the idea of co-sponsorship, so Paul Neuman Jr. will have two company sponsors. Says Jepsen, “We feel that this spirit of cooperation will Youth in full sail up Espranza Inlet Photo: Larry Andrews be positive for Paul, the Heiltsuk, and our two companies. It will also really broaden his work experience options.” Alan Hanuse from the Oweekeno First Nation was WFP’s 1999 sponsored student, and is entering the second year of the program in September. He and his fellow first-year students are recovering from their course work and exams. “We had students from as far away as Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte Islands. While being away from home proved a challenge for some students, they have all risen to the challenge nicely, and we are Youth crew paddling in Espranza Inlet Photo: Larry Andrews really proud of them,” stated Noordmans. Rhonda Ned, a stu- NVIT, continued from page 1 Kitasoo First Nation (who is cur- dent from the Upper Nicola Band rently the Kitasoo Forestry Coordi- in Merritt, said that the program attributes to the one-on-one rela- nator), Paul Neuman Jr. from the “gave me the opportunity to get tionships provided by sponsoring Heiltsuk First Nation, and Georgina the education and experience to forest companies and districts. Thomas from the Campbell River band. succeed in the career I really want.” “The success of this program is in large part due to the personal Dan Jepsen, WFP’s Manager of This summer term, a mentor from attention that each student re- Aboriginal Affairs, is enthusiastic each sponsoring forest company ceives from their mentor, “ said about the new candidates, “We are is working one-on-one with each Noordmans. “Mentors ensure that really pleased with the excellent student to help them apply the the students fit in the structure of candidates who have applied for knowledge learned in the classroom. the company for a meaningful train- this important career opportunity On-the-job training began in May ing experience.” and wish them every success.” and will run through August 2000. Each forest company that agrees to Seats in the program are in such On completion of their 12 months of participate initiates the process of high demand that all 20 positions for classroom studies and work experi- recruiting students. After contact- the September 2000 course quickly ence, the students will be awarded a ing the over 30 First Nations Bands filled, and there are 17 companies certificate in forest technology and whose traditional territories they on the waiting list to sponsor First half of the credits required for a operate within, WFP has confirmed 3 Nations students. WFP felt that Forestry Technician diploma. candidates: Ross Neasloss from the exploring the opportunities to co- 3 Planning for your Community Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) by Louanne Wong, Olympic Resource Management A GIS can also help us find out What can a GIS do? he impending settlement about what the environment may Just as a filing cabinet stores files, of the land question for be like given certain conditions, a GIS stores “layers” of information T many First Nations in an analysis technique known as that can be combined and cross- British Columbia has focused “modeling.” Using these methods, referenced to find answers to the need to organize, control, a GIS can provide the “big picture” “what?”, “where?” and “what if?” and retain information at the to support decision-making for the questions. But unlike a filing cabinet, community level. intelligent use of natural resources the GIS can do thousands of these and to manage the human-made comparisons and cross-references Modern technologies such as Geo- environment. in a minute. graphic Information Systems (GIS) are excellent integrating tools that What does a GIS look like? A GIS can view the world in different can be used to support conservation Most often, a GIS presents informa- time frames: we can look at our of First Nations heritage, manage tion in the form of maps and sym- past, present and future through the community’s resources, and bols. A map is useful to help readers windows which we can define and plan the community’s future. visualize: change. Communities can archive • where things are located their traditions and collective histo- Stephanie Henry of Oweekeno • what kinds of things are ries by adopting and adapting this Nation’s GIS department is one near certain places technology as a tool. A GIS can view of those working to help manage • how these objects can be the landscape over time and simu- her community’s lands. Acting as best reached by means of late outcomes for environmental a liaison between her community, transportation. and land use concerns, reflecting the government, industry, and the specific criteria a community various consultants, Henry is work- The way a GIS presents, displays, develops. By combining information ing towards finding viable solutions and analyzes data is flexible. It can about culture, resources and other best suited to the Oweekeno’s reflect a user’s unique interests and concerns over time, a GIS will help unique needs in forest management. can be adapted to transfer informa- to forecast potential outcomes, Henry is excited about the possibili- tion to readers. support sustainable planning at the ties that GIS brings to her commu- community and management level, nity: “It helps us communicate our and identify potential conflicts. relationship with the land, as well as continued as GIS on page 12 help us plan for our future,” she says. What is a GIS? A GIS is an information manage- ment system that can collect, store, and retrieve information about the earth based on physical location. It can also assist in analyzing and planning our natural and social environment. Using the GIS as a warehouse of information, relation- ships between objects or events in time can be explored, making sense of the environment that surrounds us. Oweekeno Nation’s Katit IR#1, drawn by E.M. Skinner in 1889–1890 4 Living Heritage—Elder Violet Neasloss, Master Weaver over again!” She had the opportunity by Dan Jepsen, WFP Manager Aboriginal Affairs and Environment to continue schooling at the Port Alberni residential school, but recalls traditional foods required for sur- it was just too far away from home ’m the proud owner vival in such an isolated community. and it would take her away from her of over 20 hand-made red Life was truly tied to the seasons, home and family for too long. Other I cedar baskets made by one with villagers depending on the land, than those periods, Violet has spent of the last traditional Kitasoo the water and each other. But the her whole life in Klemtu; the longest basket weavers: Violet Neasloss, hard work required to live off the land she was away was one month for an a Kitasoo Elder from eye operation. She started Klemtu, BC. Klemtu is work in the Kitasoo Fish about 125 kilometres due Cannery in 1933 and worked west from Bella Coola, on there until it closed in the the outer coast of BC.