CONSTANCE LAKE FIRST NATION NBI STUDY

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CONSTANCE LAKE FIRST NATIONNBI STUDY
Logging
Value-added
Bio-Mass
Trapping
NTFPs
Tourism

• Strategies for Creating Forest-based Employment
  Opportunities Community-based Development
  Planning

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CONSTANCE LAKE FIRST NATION

• CLFN people are of Ojibway, Cree, and Oji-Cree
  ancestry (late 1800 settlement)
• CLFN Reserve Settlement est. 1943 due to
  increased employment from timber activity
• Current reserve located 42 km west of Hearst in
  Calstock, ON
• Population of approximately 1276 members (718 ON
  RESERVE 558 OFF

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CONSTANCE LAKE FIRST NATION

• POLITICAL STRUCTURE
• Member of Matawa Tribal Council
• PTO Affiliation Nishnawbe-Aski Nation
• CLFN Government consists of a Chief and six
  Councilors elected every 2 years under
  guidelines of Indian Act
• Councilors are assigned a portfolio(s) covering
  programs/services for which they are responsible
  to oversee
• Portfolios are in place to help streamline
  administrative and political functions

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CONSTANCE LAKE FIRST NATION

• Numerous facilities on-reserve that enable CLFN
  to bring quality health, education, social and
  economic programs to its members
• Community/Recreation Complex est. 1999, houses a
  large gymnasium for youth
• K-12 School/Adult Training Centre est. 2004
• Health Clinic on reserve
• Day Care Centre
• Elders Completx Programs (lunches,
  story-telling, voice)
• Economic Development (Amik Logging, Weekoban,
  Tourism, Eagles Earth)

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CLFN FOREST-BASED ECONOMY

• Amik Logging
• Previously known as Mammamattawa Inc. est. in
  1998
• Provides training for CLFN members in harvesting
• Operations cut, skid, de-limbing, road
  construction management, hauling timber to mills
• Employs about 17 CLFN members with hopes of
  increasing these numbers with the NBI
• Weekoban Inc.
• Developed as a result of the Potter Station Power
  Co. Inc./TransCanada Energy Ltd. agreement
• Responsible for carriage of wood waste from the
  producers' lumber operations (Lecours, Columbia
  Forest Products, and Tembec) to the generating
  facility.
• Lecours Lumber
• Lecours sawmill is located on reserve
• approximately 60 of 120 employees at the mill are
  CLFN members

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NORTHERN BOREAL INITIATIVE

• Est. in 2000 as result of commitments from
  Ontarios Living Legacy (1999 Ontario Forest
  Accord), Partnership for Public Lands and First
  Nations commercial interest
• NBI is First Nation-driven process for resource
  development and planning opportunities north of
  the AOU
• Community-based Land Use Planning approach
  designed for use with NBI based on expectations
  of Provincial Government and First Nations
• CLUP founded upon sharing responsibility,
  applying local knowledge in decision-making and
  full consultation with First Nations
• NBI is vehicle for First Nation economic
  development, local capacity building, ecological
  sustainability, the preservation of traditional
  activities and way of life.

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Constance Lake First Nation NBI Northeast Forest
Opportunity Study

• PURPOSE OF NBI STUDY
• Undertake detailed employment profiles of 4 First
  Nation communities (CLFN, Aroland, Eabametoong,
  Martin Falls)
• Develop complete fact report on potentially
  implicated SFLs
• Community consultations benefit-impact analysis
  of potential forestry development in NBI area for
  First Nations
• Assess the potential for cooperation and JVs
  between CLFN and other First Nations, as well as
  SFLs

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TARGET STUDY AREA
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NBI STUDY OBJECTIVES

• Review update CLFN Phase 1 Report, Community
  Centred Dialogue and Basic Information Gathering
  Project
• Produce community profiles for CLFN, Martin Falls
  First Nation, Aroland First Nation, and
  Eabametoong First Nations, as well as
  non-residents (population, work force, forestry
  activities, etc)
• Produce SFL profiles for Hearst, Kenogami, Ogoki,
  Gorden Cosens, and 5 FMUs in Wawa District
  (corporate structure, ownership, work force,
  interest in NBI, experience and willingness to
  work with First Nations)

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NBI STUDY OBJECTIVES

• Prepare forestry and related training program
  proposals to submit to funding agencies for
  potential employment training
• Examine social programs to help individuals and
  communities to cope with natural resource-based
  economic development
• Research emerging opportunities in Bio-Mass,
  value-added and NTFPs
• FINAL OUTPUT
• Prepare a Directional Plan for NBI development
  for CLFN and
• Develop a Blue Print for engaging in
  development by CLFN and the other 3 First Nation
  communities (Joint Venture)

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PROJECT MILESTONES

• June to August Visit communities and SFLs to
  administer surveys and develop profiles Prepare
  interim report for Forestry Futures Trust
• November-December Draft blueprint for each
  community draft directional (business) plan for
  partnership between First Nations
• January March Hold community and SFL
  consultations to build consensus on blueprint
  and business plan write/distribute final plan.

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STUDY PROGRESS TO DATE

• Developed the SFL survey to complete the SFL
  profiles identified in objectives (will
  administer in June/July)
• Currently drafting the Community Profile survey
  for First Nations (will administer in July)
• Presently updating CLFN website for NBI
  development
• Gathering information for Interim Report (Phase
  1, Phase 2, NBI Opp. Study, exploring other
  forest-based markets)
• In talks with the other First Nations for NBI
  partnership however it has been identified that
  they are not as active with NBI as CLFN
  (consultations will continue)

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Potential Partnership for First Nation Driven NBI
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CONTACT INFORMATION
FOR MORE INFORMATION

• CONSTANCE LAKE FIRST NATION
• NORTHERN BOREAL INITIATIVE STUDY
• Sarah Allen, NBI Coordinator
• Lands and Values Office
• 18 Shan-way-shoo St.
• Calstock, ON P0L 1B0
• PH [phone]
• FAX [phone]
• Email allens_at_clfn.on.ca OR sallen_at_lakeheadu.ca