Nipissing First Nation

Environmental Management Plan

SVS worked alongside Nipissing First Nation (NPFN) to create an environmental management plan (EMP), which outlined the Nation’s goals and objectives for their stewardship of the Lands and waters they hold sacred. The outcome of this project was a document that identified key environmental issues facing NPFN, and steps the community can take to address them.  

Our team worked alongside Nipissing First Nation’s Natural Resource Department, with the support of the Culture and Language Department, to develop an environmental management plan that integrated Nipissing’s unique relationship with the Land, goals for protection, and Anishinaabe language, into the foundations of the plan. Our team of subject area experts creatively blended community knowledge with Western science to produce stewardship guidelines that addressed concerns identified by Nipissing’s citizens through an earlier community survey.