
Nos conclusions touchent trois thèmes qui ont une incidence spécifique sur les fournisseurs autochtones de services écosystémiques: (1) le droit internationalement reconnu du consentement libre, préalable et éclairé des peuples autochtones, (2) le renforcement de la compétence des colonisateurs et (3) les incompatibilités entre les connaissances autochtones et les approches de type PSE. S’inspirant des discours sur l’autodétermination, le statut de nation et les responsabilités culturelles des peuples autochtones, le présent texte étudie la façon dont les programmes de PSE produisent des résultats uniques pour les peuples autochtones à titre de fournisseurs de services écosystémiques. On retrouve souvent ces programmes dans des territoires non cédés, contestés ou non reconnus autrement sur le plan juridique tels que les territoires autochtones ainsi que les terres et les territoires de régime coutumier. Les programmes de Paiements pour les services écosystémiques (PSE) sont en voie de restructurer la gouvernance des écosystèmes et des ressources naturelles partout dans le monde. Les peuples autochtones, les communautés locales et les paiements pour les services écosystémiques fr We assess the strengths and challenges of PES programs as a departure from previous conservation modalities. Our findings enable a conceptualization of PES as a new conservation tool within ongoing histories of land management and dispossession by settler colonial governments. The ways that PES programs run the risk of reifying and reducing Indigenous knowledges have not yet been adequately considered within current PES approaches. Our findings demonstrate and substantiate three themes that impact Indigenous ecosystem services providers uniquely: (1) the internationally recognized right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent for Indigenous peoples (2) the reinforcement of settler colonial jurisdiction and (3) mismatches between Indigenous knowledges and PES-type approaches. Building on the discourses of Indigenous self-determination, nationhood, and cultural responsibilities, this paper examines how PES programs produce unique outcomes for Indigenous peoples as ecosystem services providers. These programs often occur in spaces that are unceded, contested, or otherwise not legally recognized as Indigenous homelands, customary areas, and territories. Just knowing that we’re helping this forest kind of get back to its natural state was rewarding.Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs are reshaping the governance of ecosystems and natural resources around the world. “I was personally affected by some of those fires,” said CCC Corpsmember Keith Huckabee of San Bernardino. It’s also individually significant for those who took part in the planting. The training and experience on projects, such as this, lead Corpsmembers to quality jobs in forestry, firefighting, and natural resources. Someone would fill in the soil around it and we’d move on to the next one.”ĬCC Inland Empire Corpsmembers have worked on a variety of projects in this region of the San Bernardino Mountains over the years. We would get out in the line, take 10 steps, and then make a hole for the sapling to go into. “We had to grid out the location, 10 feet wide by 10 feet wide. “There was a lot of hiking back and forth,” said CCC Conservationist I John Lugo. CCC crews planted as many as 2,000 seedlings-consisting of ponderosa pine, Jeffrey pine, sugar pine, and big cone Douglas fir-per day. The project is the result of interagency coordination and collaboration and helped invest in Corpsmembers from underserved areas by providing information about tree planting and reforestation and providing them with experience in the mountains to help cultivate interests in forest health.ĭozens of CCC Corpsmembers based out of the Inland Empire Center in San Bernardino participated in this project, including banding, staking, and protecting seedlings, and putting in 11,130 total work hours of watering, to ensure the seedlings would grow in an area heavily impacted by wildfire.

Supported by $200,000 in California Climate Investments funding, the project’s goal was to re-plant an area in and around the Eaton Scout Reservation in Cedar Glen. The California Conservation Corps (CCC), in collaboration with CAL FIRE, American Forests, and the Mojave Desert Resource Conservation District, helped plant 70,000 seedlings in the San Bernardino Mountains.
