FIRST NATIONS WILDCRAFTERS, BC specializing in cultural resources and other value added forest products and services |
First Nations Wildcrafters, BC provides a range of consultant and project
management services. These include:
First Nations Community Project Management
We coordinate and manage First Nations and/or community directed special
projects.
These services include: proposal writing, project coordination, project
management, economic development, business plans, and operational
plans.
Cultural Resource Management Services
We provide project management and consulting services for forest resource
management for integrating under story and/or incremental silva culture
value chain management options.
These services include strategic economic diversification planning,
developing operational plans, cost effective cultural heritage resource
inventory assessments, and GIS and GPS services for cultural values
identification and monitoring.
Product Development
We provide consulting and collaboration services in developing all natural
products appropriate to the cultural values and resource abundance for
communities and entrepreneurs in the Agroforesty and value added wild
foods and floral forest product sector.
Collaborative Research and Ecosystem Evaluation and
Monitoring Projects
We work in collaboration with First Nations, universities and Minisitries
developing Pilot Projects and Demonstration Projects to produce realistic
and practical benefits and solutions for the better management of cultural
resources, economic benefits, and ecological goods and services of the
forest resources.
Key Benchmarks
2001
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
management services. These include:
First Nations Community Project Management
We coordinate and manage First Nations and/or community directed special
projects.
These services include: proposal writing, project coordination, project
management, economic development, business plans, and operational
plans.
Cultural Resource Management Services
We provide project management and consulting services for forest resource
management for integrating under story and/or incremental silva culture
value chain management options.
These services include strategic economic diversification planning,
developing operational plans, cost effective cultural heritage resource
inventory assessments, and GIS and GPS services for cultural values
identification and monitoring.
Product Development
We provide consulting and collaboration services in developing all natural
products appropriate to the cultural values and resource abundance for
communities and entrepreneurs in the Agroforesty and value added wild
foods and floral forest product sector.
Collaborative Research and Ecosystem Evaluation and
Monitoring Projects
We work in collaboration with First Nations, universities and Minisitries
developing Pilot Projects and Demonstration Projects to produce realistic
and practical benefits and solutions for the better management of cultural
resources, economic benefits, and ecological goods and services of the
forest resources.
Key Benchmarks
2001
- Began as a home based business making Christmas garlands and
wreathes.
2005
- Received Tseshaht First Nations Band Council Resolution supporting
establishment of business on the Tseshaht Indian Reserve in
November 2005.
- Received start up funding from the Nuu-chah-nulth Economic
Development Corporation (NEDC) in December 2005.
- Developed and Implemented Whole Systems Diversification Model.
2006
- The business expanded into a buying station operation.
2007
- Received NEDC Cultural Business of the Year Award
- Represented Tseshaht First Nations on contract with BC Ministry of
Forests and Range Pilot Project with Forests and Range Evaluation
Program Cultural Heritage Resources Process Indicator Work Group
- Project Manager for developing Predictive Ecosystem Modeling Pilot
Project Framework for Ministry of Forests and Range Aboriginal
Affairs Branch
2008
- Became the first Wild Foods Business in British Columbia to
implement HACCP based Good Agricultural and Collection Practices
developed by the Canadian Herb, Spice and Natural Health Products
Coalition (CHSNC).
- Expanded to supply retail stores and organic food distributors wild
harvested foods
- Project Manager for developing Non Timber Forest Product Post
Harvesting Training Program for the Ministry of Forests and Range
Aboriginal Affairs Branch.
2009
- Project Manager for British Columbia First Nations Forestry Council
on Non Timber Forest Resources Position Paper to British Columbia
Forestry Roundtable.
- Project Manager for BC First Nations Forestry Council three year Non
Timber Forest Resources and Products implementation strategy work
plan.
- Selected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands Sustainable
Agriculture Branch for a case study of integrating traditional practices
based on the Whole Systems Diversification Model with Good
Agricultural and Collection Practices.
- Nominated for Mid-island Science Technology and Innovation Council
Value Added Business of the Year Award.
- Whole Systems Diversification Model was chosen by the BC Ministry
of Agriculture and Lands Sustainable Agriculture Branch for Special
Crops and Agroforestry Pilot Project Framework Development.
- Chosen by the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands Sustainable
Agriculture Branch to identify and develop GACP HACCP based
training materials and training tools for the wild foods industry sector
in British Columbia.
2010
- Received training to deliver CHSNC GACP in British Columbia
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