Dogwood Initiative's successes
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Dogwood Initiative (formerly Forest Futures) has become the pre-eminent land
reform organization in British Columbia.
Since our launch in 1999 we have mobilized thousands of British Columbian’s around sustainable land reform issues. Our past successes include:
We are now in a time of major transition and huge changes are happening quickly. Dogwood Initiative’s networks and expertise position us well to channel this change positively.
Since our launch in 1999 we have mobilized thousands of British Columbian’s around sustainable land reform issues. Our past successes include:
- achieving the unprecedented reallocation of 20% of major logging tenures to small operators, communities and First Nations in 2003 so that more local people can work their forests in a sustainable way.
- helping First Nations, ranchers and community advocates in BC throughout 2003 and 2004 stop the government's plans to develop coalbed methane in areas like the Hat Creek watershed and the Crowsnest Coalfield area of the Kootenays, averting widespread destruction of habitat and potential pollution of water.
- playing an active role in the formation of the Title & Rights Alliance in 2003, a new unified initiative of First Nations across BC to protect the wellbeing of land, water and air.
- forming the Coalition for Sustainable Forest Solutions in 2002. This multi-sectoral coalition promotes sustainable community-centred solutions to our unsustainable forest industry.
- forcing the withdrawal of the government’s “Working Forest” legislation in 2001, which would have begun the privatization and logging of 106 million acres of BC’s most biologically diverse forests.
- Mobilizing thousands of rural citizens with our "Stop Corporate Concentration Campaign" in 2000 in response to the takeover of BC's MacMillan Bloedel by Weyerhaeuser. The campaign resulted in the unprecedented take back by government of 5% of Weyerhaeuser’s tenures for redistribution to First Nations and communities.
- Coordinating the diverse coalition behind the
"Campaign to Save BC’s Public Lands" in 1999, which forced the government
to cancel a plan to privatize 300,000 acres of publicly owned
forestland.
We are now in a time of major transition and huge changes are happening quickly. Dogwood Initiative’s networks and expertise position us well to channel this change positively.
