Sustainable forestry an award-winner for EBCI
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians was honored for its use of positive-impact forestry on the Qualla Boundary when the EBCI Office of Natural Resources won the 2016 EcoForester Award in a ceremony celebrating local forest products industry and sustainable forestry.
“They are truly working within the Cherokee traditional rule to ‘preserve and utilize our natural landscape with the consciousness of the seven generations unborn,’” according to a press release.
The awards were presented by the organizations Root Cause and EcoForesters. Root Cause works to raise awareness in the Southern Appalachians for the use of local forest products and sustainable forestry, while EcoForesters works to protect the forests of the Appalachians to ensure their longevity through positive-impact forest stewardship and natural resource education.
