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Access to Kootenay IR 1 for purpose of cutting stumps flush near the Airport from June 3-7th, 2024;

Posted June 4, 2024

British Columbia Wildfire Services- Cranbrook Zone is granted access to ʔaq̓ am lands forming Kootenay IR
1 for the purposes of cutting stumps flush to the ground that are left over from falling operations last fall
near the Cranbrook Airport from June 3rd- 7th, 2024.

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Nupqu Resource Limited Partnership onsite June 4-5th, 2024

Posted June 3, 2024

Nupqu Resource Limited Partnership will be onsite June 4-5th in the wildfire and prescribed burn areas to establish plot sites where they will conduct vegetation inventories later this summer. A reminder that Nupqu is also continuing to doing archeology work at six wetland sites which will be done sometime before August 1st, 2024.

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Apply Now: BC TREXBC Prescribed Fire Training Exchange

Posted May 31, 2024

Apply Now: BC TREXBC PRESCRIBED FIRE TRAINING EXCHANGE September 15 – 28, 2024 | Cranbrook, B.C.
Applications are now open for BC TREX. The BC Wildfire Service and Ktunaxa First Nation are collaboratively developing the fall 2024 BC TREX, with support from the First Nations Emergency Services Society.
WHAT IS TREX?
TREX is a unique, cooperative, prescribed burning training model that provides hands-on learning with a focus on local landscapes and values. firenetworks.org/trex

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Trespassers on your Certificate of Possession Lands

Posted May 30, 2024

Trespassers on your Certificate of Possession (CP) Lands?

Rights of CP holders include:

  • posting “no trespassing” signs on their privately held property
  • asking people they no longer want on their CP lands to leave, even if the CP holder invited the people to the property in the first place

“No trespassing” signs can be picked up from Sarah Baines, Land Code Advisor, at the ʔaq̓am Administration building.

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ʔaq̓am 2024 Timber Claim and Membership Law Results

Posted May 29, 2024

Kiʔsuʔk kyukyit,

Please see the attached consolidated ballot count declarations and official results declaration, for the Timber Claim and Membership Law Referendum.

These are the cleaned up typed versions of the documents, that were posted at the Boardroom polling station last night.

ʔaq̓am will ensure that we will do our due diligence in administering any per capita payment. We are developing the timeline for distribution, and we will continue to keep you posted of expectation of payment. We appreciate your patience.

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