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A Tsilhqot'in Stewardship Planning Portal for land-stewardship planning
This project will create a portal to streamline First Nation land-stewardship planning. The portal will provide end-users with Web-based tools that simplify and accelerate exchanging location-based (“geospatial”) data, non-geospatial data, and other land-use planning information.
End-users will comprise First Nation resource managers, companies with land-use interests, and governments.
Every year, the Tsilhqot'in National Government (TNG) is asked to respond to hundreds of resource-related referrals—timber-harvesting proposals in particular. TNG also receives referrals for tourism, Crown land sales, pesticide spraying, wildlife management, archaeological impact assessments, and range use.
In addition to addressing these operational referrals, the Tsilhqot'in must engage in higher-level land and resource planning. To date, however, TNG has not had the capacity to perform high-level planning. This project is an important part of building this capacity.
The portal will combine and extend existing Web-based mapping applications that are compliant with the standards of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. and the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI); and allow users to upload, view, query, edit, download, and print land-use content.
With these abilities, end-users will be able to navigate areas of proposed land-use activity while relying on a mass of thematic decision-support information provided by the CGDI and other sources.
Primary Partner:
Tsilhqot'in National Government
Williams Lake,
British Columbia;
Partners: Tolko Industries Ltd.; West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd; BC Timber Sales; Integrated Land Management Bureau; BC Ministry of Forests and Range; Spatialyst Consulting; Stonefield Consulting
Funding From GeoConnections: $98,000.00 ( 42.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: July 1, 2006
Estimated Completion Date: November 15, 2007
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: British Columbia;