Wild Rice Monitoring
Manoomin, the food that grows on water, plays a significant role in the history of the Anishinaabe. We were guided by it, now we use it to guide our partners undertanding of the landscape. Since the 90’s the department has been monitoring and restoring wild rice beds in the 1842 Ceded Territory.
Wolf Monitoring and Remote Cameras
One of the main responsibilities of the Wildlife and Habitat Section is to better understand predator-prey relationships especially those involving subsistence species harvested by the community. Monitoring is one of the greatest tools for assessing the health of the landscape. We understand through creation, everything is connected, like Maiingan and Anishinaabe.
KBIC Wildlife Stewardship Plan
To support, honor, and respect mutual relationships between thriving native fish, wildlife, plant, and human communities by maintaining, enhancing, or restoring ecologically diverse networks of healthy wildlife populations and habitat.
Habitat Suitability
To develop effective land management plans, assess and implement conservation priorities, and increase overall understanding of the natural resources of the L’Anse Indian Reservation and surrounding areas, it is important to identify communities and habitats that currently exist on the landscape. Our 2025, habitat suitability modeling exercise can be accessed here.
