Abstract

In September 1996, then Minister of Forests David Zirnhelt announced the pending establishment of the John Prince Research Forest (jprf).1 This 13,000-hectare land base would support a working forest, co-managed for research, education, and training purposes by Tl’azt’en Nation and the University of Northern British Columbia (unbc).2 It would be the first of its kind in Canada. The jprf was, as all spaces are, “the outcome of a process with many aspects and many contributing currents.”3 Such “aspects and currents,” especially animated in the three years preceding the forest’s founding, included diverse and sometimes conflicting ways of seeing and representing the varied potential uses of this space. Such ways of seeing, or “visualizations,”4 were rooted in the different spatial assumptions, ideologies, and knowledge of their holders. In this article we document the different and evolving ways of

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