Abstract

In recent years, forestry companies have begun to account for non-timber values of their license areas. Management of their heritage resources has become a factor in management of their cut blocks. In response to this, the Manitoba Model Forest, Inc. (MbMF) sought to investigate management tools for forestry companies to employ, such as archaeological predictive modeling. The model is unique in several respects: 1) it incorporated traditional land-use data into the modeling process and 2) the field-testing component employed students from the Hollow Water First Nation as the field crew. This paper will review the modeling process, the field-testing and discuss the efficacy of the model. It will also examine the potential of predictive modeling in Boreal Forest areas.