NATION 4 | JULY 25 31, 2014 www.TheEpochTimes.com AP PHOTO/JOHN FLESHER BC First Nation works to preserve historically important trees Continued from 1 A fishing boat cruises on the Milwaukee River near Lake Michigan, an area designated for cleanup because of decades of toxic pollution, Sept. 12, 2013. Ottawa has announced new funding for four cleanup projects around the St. Clair River in Southwestern Ontario. Great Lakes cleanup efforts get new funding By Kaven Baker-Voakes In the ongoing effort to clean up the Great Lakes, the federal government is committing new funding worth $418,000 to four projects around the St. Clair River in Southwestern Ontario. The 65-km St. Clair has been listed as one of the Great Lakes Areas of Concern. It was placed on the Remedial Action Plan, a restoration plan, in 1987. “Fish and wildlife habitat on both sides of the St. Clair River have been considerably altered due to industrialization, urban development, diking, drainage for agricultural purposes, and the development of navigational channels,” notes a Michigan Department of the Environment report on the St. Clair River Areas of Concern in 2008. “There were 43 areas of concern in the Great Lakes. These are areas that were identified as having experienced high levels of environmental harm. So 12 of those 43 were Canadian, 5 were shared, and the others were in the U.S.,” Colin Carrie, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment, said in an interview. “Work has been completed on three of the Canadian areas. By 2019 we anticipate being able to complete remedial action for a further five Areas of Concern, but there is more work to be done.” The Great Lakes Water Agreement penned between the U.S. and Canada in 2012 requires that reme- For all your real estate needs Buy/Sell/Property Management Realtor ®/Associate dial action plans be developed by each country that identify beneficial use, work with local communities, summarize how the measures have been completed, and undertake ongoing monitoring of restoration progress. The city of Sarnia, a region the US Environmental Protection Agency has listed as a major source of concern due to its high industrial and agricultural practices, will receive $75,000 of the new funding to improve its wastewater monitoring of flows into the St. Clair. Another $90,000 will go toward creating 4-10 km of shore buffers around the river and to restore 40 acres of wetland. 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The work will take place in the traditional territory of the Heiltsuk Nation, which includes much of the area known as the Great Bear Rainforest. The Heiltsuk have partnered with Interfor—one of the Pacific Northwest’s largest producers of wood products—on the project, which is funded with a conservation grant from Sustainable Forestry Initiative. “Culturally modified trees preserve a partial but compelling record of Heiltsuk presence on the land and utilization of forest resources, and are an integral part of our culture and heritage,” says Jennifer Carpenter, Culture & Heritage manager for the Heiltsuk Nation. “Detailed analysis of CMT types and locations helps us track and monitor these and other archeological features so they can be protected.” CMTs usually have a wide variety of features, including scars where planks or bark have been removed. The bark had a host of uses, such as in canoe caulking and canoe bailers, bridge lashings, and tool handle wrapping. It was also used to make rope, fish nets and fish traps, baskets, mats, boxes, clothing, blankets, ceremonial regalia, diapers, wound dressings, sanitary napkins—to name just a few. Planks were also cut from the trees to make canoes, shelters, and other wooden necessities. Some of the bark was always left to allow the tree to live. In addition to B.C., culturally modified trees can be found in parts of the United States, Scandinavia, and Australia. Features on Australian CMTs include toe-holds to facilitate tree climbing, as well as smokeand access-holes to catch wildlife such as possums and birds. According to “Text in Trees,” a 2006 academic paper, CMTs are recognized as unique archaeological features in that in many cases, they can be very precisely dated through dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating. “They are history written on the landscape,” the authors wrote. It was only around the beginning of the 1980s that scientists began recognizing that the trees are important sources for the history of certain regions. In fact, they are such a mine of information that they have been designated CMT archives. The logging of old-growth forests has put CMTs in jeopardy, however, and some First Nations have registered the trees on their traditional lands in an effort to protect them. Protected trees are registered, classified, and, if possible, dated. Rhiannon Poupard, manager of First Nations & Forestry Partnerships with Interfor, said the project’s database will “help fill in any gaps” and the maps and reports produced by the spatial analysis in GIS will improve the lumber company’s forest management. “We recognize the unique ties that the Heiltsuk have to their lands and this project will help us to better identify, respect, and manage this unique heritage resource,” she said. 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