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Indigenous leaders point to issues with Timiskaming forest management plan
Indigenous leaders in the Temagami area are hopeful of a new relationship with the Crown when it comes to some forests, but say they re being ignored when it comes to other trees in their territory.
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First Nations say they are being ignored as the province plans the next 10 years for the Timiskaming forest
CBC News ·
Posted: Jan 29, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 29
Timiskaming First Nation is hopeful that it will see some of the economic benefits of logging the Temagami forest which currently generate a lot of profit for a few companies. (Erik White/CBC )
Kilbridge says more permanent logging roads are already snaking through the Temagami wilderness he and others were fighting to protect all those years ago. I think it has been lost, he says of the battle over the Temagami forest that started in the 1970s.
Much of that was led by the Indigenous peoples of Bear Island. No one from Temagami First Nation or the nearby Matachewan First Nation was available to speak about their involvement in the new management corporation.
There is also a seat at the table for the Timiskaming First Nation, across the border in Quebec.
Chief Sacha Wabie says 60 per cent of her community s traditional territory is in what is today called Ontario.