Approved funding: $559,885
Description: This project engages Mikisew Guardians in peatland restoration to preserve the integrity of caribou habitat and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Seismic line restoration will enhance caribou habitat, while restoring ecosystem services to promote carbon sequestration.
British Columbia
Recipient: Aski Reclamation Limited Partnership on behalf of Saulteau First Nations
Approved funding: $ 176,720
Description: This project develops a Land Reclamation Certificate course in collaboration with the University of Northern British Columbia to provide specialized training to Aski Reclamation employees, who are Saulteau First Nation members, in land reclamation methods. Staff will acquire knowledge and tools to assist with the implementation of restoration projects that will mitigate the effects of climate change by restoring carbon-rich areas in Saulteau traditional territory, including forests, wetlands, peatlands, and grasslands.
Recipient: Blueberry River First Nations
Approved funding: $ 372,040
Description: This project develops on-the-ground training opportunities for staff to gain knowledge and skills related to sampling and restoration methods that will empower Blueberry River First Nations to complete future forest and wetland restoration work to help promote ecosystem functioning and carbon storage. Emissions reduction activities included in field training will be re-establishing flooding regimes and vegetation in degraded wetlands, enhancing land management, and restoring forests and wetlands for enhanced carbon storage.
Recipient: Cheslatta Carrier Nation
Approved funding: $358,135
Description: This project empowers the Cheslatta Carrier Nation to undertake activities to restore native species, enhance caribou habitat, and sequester carbon. The Cheslatta Carrier Nation is restoring native berry plants that have been affected by wildfire in order to provide food and sequester carbon, as well as restoring lichen to sequester carbon and enhance caribou habitat. They are also conducting ongoing research related to enhanced land management techniques, including sustainable silvicultural methods.
Recipient: Fort Nelson First Nation
Approved funding: $ 600,615
Description: This project conducts monitoring of the greenhouse gas sequestration benefits of restoring peatland with different restoration techniques. The project builds capacity within the Fort Nelson First Nation to develop and execute a robust greenhouse gas sequestration monitoring program and analyze field data to make informed decisions regarding restoration treatments.
Recipient: Gitanyow Huwilp Society doing business as Gitanyow Fisheries Authority
Approved funding: $263,135
Description: This project supports Gitanyow to bring back their traditional practice of cultural burning to enhance their forest management and help reduce the risk of extreme wildfires. In collaboration with the British Columbia Wildfire Service, this project develops a Gitanyow Cultural Fire Stewardship Plan that will provide tools to facilitate the creation of individual burn plans, identify different habitat types, and identify areas where wildfires should be allowed to burn in order to help restore ecosystem health.
Recipient: Katzie Development Limited Partnership
Approved funding: $ 400,000
Description: This project will assess the effectiveness of ongoing restoration activities and benefits to carbon sequestration; broaden the amount of baseline data collected through monitoring work to better understand the impacts of climate change on wetlands; reintroduce native vegetation; and measure success in meeting habitat restoration objectives.
Recipient: Kwiakah Indian Band
Approved funding: $ 705,795
Description: This project launches a regenerative forestry pilot program and empowers Kwiakah Indian Band to conduct research and baseline data collection to quantify carbon storage within local forests. Staff will explore regenerative forestry treatments, develop a methodology for comparing the rate of biodiversity increase and soil/forest carbon stock recovery, assess the impacts of forest management strategies, and lobby the province of British Columbia to improve regenerative forestry practices.
Recipient: Nanwakolas Council Society
Approved funding: $984,950
Description: This project will conduct research into kelp restoration methodologies, compile new and existing knowledge on Indigenous and Western science regarding kelp restoration, work to establish a baseline of kelp carbon sequestration, and work to restore kelp forests. It will also build community capacity through training activities and work to provide climate change mitigation benefits through enhanced carbon sequestration, as well as co-benefits to the community.
Recipient: Stswecem'c Xget'tem First Nation
Approved funding: $ 493,605
Description: This project will conduct forest thinning to protect grasslands, cultural burning, and biodiversity ranching, all of which will reduce competition of overstory trees and increase light, soil moisture, and nutrients to increase biodiversity and ecosystem resilience while protecting the grasslands carbon sink. It will also deliver co-benefits, such as employment opportunities and Indigenous engagement in climate action, as well as increasing ecosystem resilience and decreasing the risk of wildlife for residents.
Recipient: Tsal'alh
Approved funding: $167,495
Description: This project will undertake capacity-building activities and baseline data collection, including source data and aerial imagery acquisition, ecosystem delineation, field survey, and ecosystem mapping in Shalalth, British Columbia. These activities will provide a baseline for measuring existing disturbance for comparison to future disturbance to determine the cumulative effects, as well as provide estimations of carbon dynamics, including storage and sequestration to guide forest-management practices.
Recipient: Tsay Keh Dene Nation
Approved funding: $ 322,110
