Today, we’re excited to announce that the Prince Albert Model Forest has been chosen as a 2019 The North Face Canada Explore Fund grant recipient! Thank you so much to summer student Aidan Wikenhauser for your work in writing this grant. With the support of The North Face Canada, we will be seeking to…
By: Max Pospisil Grandmother’s Bay, a Northern community that is part of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, has an intimate connection with woodland caribou: the animal is central to the story of the community’s name. The story goes that an Elder needed to stay at Grandmother’s Bay through a winter season. When her community…
By Aidan Wickenhauser, PAMF Summer Student Recently, I had the pleasure of taking part in a week-long canoe trip with some community members from Grandmother’s Bay, an Indigenous community about one-hour North of La Ronge. Although the weather didn’t always cooperate, I had a spectacular time. There was so much I loved about the trip:…
You may recall last year’s partnership between Prince Albert Model Forest and the University of Saskatchewan’s History Collaboratorium– a collaboration that ended in the authorship of this best practices handbook. We are delighted to announce the start of another partnership with the History Collab, and to introduce you to this year’s summer student! “My name…
Empowering the next generation of resource management professionals to take charge in their communities. “Don’t underestimate your stories, and tell them proudly.” This is the message that Gord Vaadeland, executive director of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Saskatchewan (CPAWS-SK) had to impart upon 31 young people from First Nations communities across Saskatchewan this March.…
“All life is interconnected- but for many, the connection between the people and the land has weakened. If we foster the same respect and appreciation for the land that our Ancestors had, we can restore our own connection and begin to heal ourselves and our Mother Earth.” This was the theme of Michelle Watson’s presentation…
Traditional ecological knowledge (or TEK) is what we call the ecological data that we collect from Indigenous Elders and land-users who have dedicated their lives to understanding the land that they live on. The “traditional” in “TEK” doesn’t refer to the age or the quality or even the type of knowledge. It simply means that…
One of the Prince Albert Model Forest’s joint projects with the University of Saskatchewan’s Community Engaged History Collaboratorium this summer was the authorship of a best practices handbook for use by government, industry, academia, and any other interested third party who wishes to interact with an Indigenous community for research or land-use planning. Follow this…
One of the current ongoing projects here at the PA Model Forest is the range planning for woodland caribou in Northern Saskatchewan’s boreal forests. Planning for the protection of this at-risk species is no small task. Currently, we are out in the field, interviewing Indigenous Elders, land-users, and knowledge keepers to put their traditional ecological…