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Cariboo Gold Rush Marathon organizers held a mock race on Jan. 27 to test timing equipment which will be used at the real event on Feb. 9 at the 99 Mile Ski Trails. 100 Mile House Nordics ski club’s Skill Development Program members used their regularly scheduled lesson time to ski short loops for the practice exercise, with several parents also joining in.
Band scores woodland licence Historic agreement signed with province for local harvesting Carole Rooney Free Press
The Tsq,escenemc/Canim Lake Band (CLB) is making history as the second community to successfully obtain a First Nations Woodlands licence in British Columbia. In a signing ceremony on Jan. 24, officials and representatives of the province and the band solidified a woodland agreement, which the band has been pursuing for decades. This licence will allow the band to harvest up to 20,000 cubic metres of timber each year – about 5,000 logging truck loads – from about
20,000 hectares of Crown and resources.” an equal footing with the land on an initial term of CLB forester John community of 100 Mile 25 years, which can then be Kalmokoff says the tenure House.” renewed indefinitely. size is equivalent to the 100 To put this in perspective, CLB Chief Mike Archie Mile House Community Kalmokoff notes the band’s says the new original woodlot licence licence will help The [band] is committed to had an allowable annual the band grow its cut of about 1,500 cubic self-sufficiency through existing forestry metres. education, economic operation, as well “They wanted a largedevelopment, social as providing longdevelopment and effective sized, area-based tenure term economic for a long time, but so did management of our lands and employment everybody else.” and resources.” opportunities. However, the band has – Chief Mike Archie demonstrated success in “The [band] is committed to managing that woodlot self-sufficienc y since 1980, the forester through education, eco- Forest licence held by the explains. nomic development, social municipality’s 100 Mile Other small, non-replacedevelopment and effective Development Corporation. able forest licences were management of our lands “This puts the [band] on also held since then, which
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Kalmokoff adds were also handled well by the band, providing a model for First Nation forestry practices. “The reason [CLB] is one of the leaders and got this licence before [almost] anyone else is because of their demonstrated track record in forestry. They have proven they can do it.” He notes the band has maintained a registered professional forester (RPF), such as himself, on staff for three decades. “They’ve made a longterm commitment to being in the forest industry.” Continued on A5