Areas Suitable for Harvesting Cedar Bark
Cedar bark is still widely used by the Squamish Nation community to make ceremonial attire and other items such as baskets.Site characteristics deemed desirable for harvesting cedar bark include medium aged to old cedar forests, medium tree heights, low elevations, low slopes and close proximity to water. Middle-aged as well as old forests were included here as the cedar bark is sometimes easier to take off of middle-aged cedars.

A cedar bark harvesting model was also included in the AOA under the title of Culturally Modified Tree Model (CMT). The AOA model was adapted for the purposes of the above analysis. The most notable change that we made was in excluding Lodgepole Pine and White Pine from the analysis. These tree species were included in the original analysis as these types of trees were used as food sources and other purposes in the past. As this species of tree is no longer utilized it was not included. Download Map