In collaboration with the Ndakina Office and the Wôlinak Environment and Land Office, our team carried out black ash inventories in the Ndakina territory. In 2020, a project to list black ash under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) began.
This registration project led to a consultation process with other First Nations communities, and it is as part of this process that our teams carried out inventories in the summer of 2021 in order to locate black ash stands and obtain information on their state of health.
Since time immemorial, the black ash has had central importance in many First Nations communities, functionally, cognitively, emotionally and spiritually. It is at the heart of traditional practices such as basketry and the manufacture of objects and it is associated with a body of knowledge.
