PROJECT REPORT 2000-9 - Sustainable Forestry in the Gwich’in Settlement Area:

We are grateful to the guidance given to us by the forestry officials of the Gwich’in Tribal Council, the Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development of the Government of the Northwest Territories, and the Polar Continental Shelf Project. [...] In order to further clarify voice, section titles include the author’s name.2 The structure of the paper reflects the learning process in the sense that it begins by sketching out some of the anthropological notions on “landscape” which were brought to the field and then it proceeds to describe some of the author’s presumptions which were put to rest and the manner in which it was discovered how t. [...] The logs may be used for building materials for a cabin or it may be that the wood is needed for burning later on or it may be for a variety of other reasons and the evidence left behind is the same as that of the practice of peeling bark for the purpose of building a smoke house. [...] After the wood was de-limbed and cut into sections which began at the base at about five feet in length and ended at the top of the tree with a section about twelve feet long, the wood was hoisted onto shoulders and “packed” to the top of the bank where it was thrown down to the shore. [...] Upon careful examination of the MacDonald journal entries, two aspects of the Mission’s forestry activities emerge as important; the steamer’s consumption of wood on a voyage made in the summer of 1870, and the general activities of those MacDonald contracted to cut wood for both his personal use and for the construction and repair of Mission buildings.