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Centering Indigenous Knowledge in Wunnumin Lake's Source Water Protection Plan

With field season quickly approaching, we are revisiting our Environmental Monitoring Guide as a source of inspiration!

Today in our blog, we talk about the benefits of placing your community’s Indigenous Knowledge at the heart of your...

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Five Key Questions in Planning a Community-led, Environmental Monitoring Program

Field season is just a few short months!  If you've got big plans, we've got some ideas for you! 

Welcome to the first post in our Environmental Monitoring blog series. Today we kick things off with five fundamental questions to get the wheels...

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Speaking for the Sturgeon: Nipissing First Nation Creates Educational Video

In the deep waters of Nipissing lives an ancient species of fish whose ancestors shared these same waters with the dinosaurs. Like the Anishinaabe, N’me, or freshwater lake sturgeon, have been affected by many changes caused by colonization,...

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Along the Line: Why Linear Corridors Need Environmental Monitoring

Today we are bringing back the final post from our environmental monitoring series. This is a topic that deserves to be heard again — linear corridors. What are linear corridors? They are roads, pipelines, transmission lines, rail lines —...

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Five Benefits of Placing Indigenous Knowledge at the Heart of Environmental Monitoring

Darrell Settee of Pimicikamak Cree Nation, image taken by Laura Taylor

With field season quickly approaching, we are revisiting our Environmental Monitoring Guide as a source of inspiration! Today in our blog, we are talking about the...

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Five Key Questions in Planning a Community-led Environmental Monitoring Program

Field season is just around the corner!  If you've got big plans, we've got some ideas for you! 

What better way to protect your lands and waters than to keep a deliberate, watchful eye on what matters? However, we get that creating an...

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Plant the Seed- Making the Case for a Lands and Consultation Department

If you work in your Nation’s lands, resources, or consultation departments, or hold these portfolios on Council, you likely know all too well what it feels like to be drowning in consultation emails. Whether it is a proponent reaching out about...

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Focusing on What Matters: How to Screen and Prioritize Requests

“Looking back on it, you don’t know what you’re missing because you don’t know what the opportunities are. That’s one of the challenges I think for any First Nation. You don’t know what you’re missing. And if you don’t have the right system, and...

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How to Structure an Effective Lands and Consultation Department

“The roles within the Lands Office should reflect the priorities of the communities.” —Mark MacDougall, Regulatory and Research Consultant, SVS

In the first post of our Lands and Consultation Department series, we talked about how having a...

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