Working Paper (Sustainable Forest Management Network)

Part of an examination of co-operative forest management involving First Nations, government and industry in Northern Alberta.

Defines co-management, and looks at how different forest attributes called for different property rights arrangements.

Discusses how co-operative arrangements represent adaptive strategies employed by aboriginal communities to enact fundamental change in the institutions that most directly influence their access to traditionally used land and resources.

Describes the community-based process of the Little Red River Cree Nation and the development of a self-improving forest management system that is responsive to the values, expectations and changing needs of community members.

Summarizes the First Nations and Aboriginal research projects of the Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Network covering the period 1995-1999.

Looks at how First Nations communities have played an important role in the development of unique co-management regimes that promote regional natural resource sustainability.

Presents a portion of the traditional ecological knowledge gathered during the 1997 moose harvest survey in Garden River, Alberta.