CHNHaida NationWorking GroupProgramsHaida LaasGovernmentAgreementsDiplomacyLinksContact
1000 YEAR PLAN
Only a 1000-year plan for cedar will ensure cultural survival for our people. The
1000-Year Plan will accomplish this goal by assessing current and future Haida
cultural needs for red and yellow cedar, assessing potential risks to the existing
forests, identifying areas of current and future supply of red and yellow cedar
across the landscape, developing policies and procedures for designating red
and yellow cedar reserves to be protected for Haida cultural uses, and engaging
the Province of British Columbia, local governments and third party interests in
implementing measures to protect red and yellow cedar for Haida cultural uses
until the 1000 year plan for Haida Gwaii is implemented.
Some of the main questions at this stage of the plan involve determining the
remaining supply of cedar and the needs of the population. Where are there
stands of cedar suitable for monumental uses? Where are the stands that have
long-term potential to become monumental trees? What are the projected needs
of the Haida people? How accessible are the remaining stands, and how
economically feasible would it be to harvest trees? The CHN Forest
Guardians are conducting activities to answer these questions.
As part of implementing the 1000 -Year Plan, the CHN has formed a field
crew to conduct Haida Land Values surveys. This crew identifies areas where
monumental cedars grow and where there is high potential for them to grow in
the future. The CHN has succeeded in completely or partially deferring logging
in many cutblocks in Weyerhaeuser's TFL because of the presence of
monumental cedars and cedar stands. These areas represent the first
steps in creating a system of Cedar Reserves that will be protected from industrial logging in order to ensure a long-term supply of cedar for Haida
cultural uses.
At the same time as the Haida Land Values crew is working to protect cedar
sites, crew members are studying the characteristics of these sites in order to
get a clearer sense of where and why cedars grow to monumental size. This
information will hopefully be used to predict which areas on the islands are, or
will become, productive cedar sites.
