Arbex Forest Resource Consultants: Aboriginal Forestry Services

Since 1984, Arbex has provided a wide variety of forestry, natural resource consulting services to First Nation clients for both on- and off-reserve projects.

Services include:

Integrated Resource Management Planning
Audits and Appraisals
Land Use and Business Contract Negotiations Support
Feasibility Studies and Forestry Business Plans
Loss of Use Studies
Training and Advisory Services
Forest Policy Consultation and Development (e.g. Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management)
Wildlife Habitat Evaluations and Appraisals
Proposal Development

Arbex First Nation Clients Map (1984-2000)

Cut Block Regeneration Survey on Cree Traditional Territory

Arbex First Nation Clients Map (1984-2000)
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Arbex Geographic Information Systems (GIS) products and services compliment our resource management and consulting services. Qualified Arbex staff are able to conduct queries and complex spatial analysis, create custom projects, and design report- and wall-size maps to support Integrated Resource Management Planning and other projects.

Traditional Land Use Mapping

For many First Nations, the mapping of historical changes in territory boundaries, and of traditional and cultural sites are desired and necessary components of resource management planning and land use negotiations with government, industry and other resource users. Arbex services in land use mapping range from facilitation of community consultation sessions for location of key sites, to digitization of sensitive area coverages, creation of accompanying databases and production of layouts.

Forest Inventory on Timiskaming Reserve

First Nation Land Use Map
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Application Development

Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) provide an interactive means for non-technical users to access, query and display geographic information. GUI Projects, created using Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) programming language, Avenue, can be custom designed for our client’s target audience to present information in a series of organized view and layouts. A great tool for archiving cultural knowledge and for teaching traditional ways to today’s youth in a technologically savvy manner, GUIs capture the interest of users by including information from diverse sources such as:

Digital files
Photographic and satellite imagery
Video clips
Text files and scanned documents

The Algonquins of Barriere Lake (ABL) Traditional Ecological Knowledge Educational GUI is currently being developed by Arbex to provide community schools with a tool to teach Algonquin children about their cultural, traditional and natural heritage within the ABL traditional territory. The project features interactive modules on Traditional Plants, Fish and Wildlife, Toponymy and Culture, with a view to the development of additional modules in the future.

Traditional Plants GUI
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Visit our GIS Products and Services Page for another example of an Arbex GUI project, the Swan Lake Forest Research Reserve GIS, and for additional information on Arbex GIS.

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