Environment committee  The main objective for ACFN is to develop what we've described as this traditional lands and resource management plan that we see as the foundation for enabling the establishment of thresholds to protect treaty rights and livelihood. But it also significantly creates a framework

Environment committee  We are, and it's important when we talk about the boreal forest in the Athabasca region to realize that “forest” is perhaps a misnomer. Actually, 60% of the Athabasca region is wetlands, all contained within a forested matrix. What results from disturbance of these wetlands is t

Environment committee  If I might add to that, as Lisa has pointed out, the intent is not only to map where the resources are, but also, and I think this is the critical point, to establish thresholds or limits that we can then monitor against performance, to ensure that the values we're trying to sust

Environment committee  We believe it is important to inform the members of this committee, and government as a whole, about what we're seeing on the ground about the challenges for habitat conservation in this region, for there is nowhere else in the country that faces more difficult challenges. Decade