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Seed the North, Inc.

We are a landscape scale ecological restoration company working on and in the soil side by side with Indigenous communities, government, businesses, nonprofits, and research institutions to create and sustain good jobs restoring wildfire and erosion affected areas, fighting the biodiversity crisis, and sequestering carbon.

1. Ecological restoration

Seed the North’s symbiosis of methods, values, and goals grows directly from walking the landscape with our collaborators, crew, and research associates.

1A. Methods

-identifying boreal and sub-boreal areas of catastrophic wildfire and riparian erosion that have limited prospects for natural regeneration, and are crucial parts of wildlife corridors

-determining species of Indigenous value through community led collaboration (see section 2 below)

-prescription planning based on the reference ecosystem and mindful of assisted migration

-seed collection forecasting based on mast years, weather, and predation

-seed collection training and capacity building (see section 2 below)

-auxiliary methods including cuttings

-wild stand seed collecting, including cut testing, source documentation, and moisture management

-seed processing, testing, banking, and record keeping to highest standards

-seed enhancing and multi-species vesseling with soil ameliorants

-disseminating the seed vessels on the restoration site in relation to microsite characteristics (bare mineral soil, nurse objects, aspect, and biocrusts) and macrosite characteristics (wetlands and glaciofluvial landforms)

-monitoring and long term land stewardship

 

1B. Values and goals

-accelerating beyond natural regeneration for time sensitive community and biodiversity targets

-securing carbon already in the soil, and rebuilding the soil’s capacity to support a healthy ecosystem

-maintaining and rebuilding wildlife corridors and habitat

-prioritizing Indigenous community land relationships

-fortifying ecosystem resilience to the severity and frequency of future wildfire and other climate disturbance

 

2. Community led collaboration / capacity building / training

All of Seed the North’s landscape scale projects are led by the Indigenous communities whose ancestral territories are being restored. Within this framework, Seed the North:

 

-develops customized curricula

-co-leads land-based workshops with Indigenous elders and local knowledge keepers

-conducts training sessions for meaningful and well paying work in all aspects of section 1A above

 

Capacity building is fundamentally about projects that do not have an end date. These projects are designed to create livelihood streams for community members of multiple generations in land stewardship and monitoring to determine what more the land needs, and to collect data to continue to improve our methods and germination outcomes

 

3. Research

Since the beginning, Seed the North, University of Toronto forestry school, and BC Biocarbon, funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, have collaborated on our seed enhancement tech, bringing professors and graduate students from the lab into the field to conduct rigorously designed trials for the sake of high and reliable germination outcomes

Jan 25, 2025
Full-Time
Executive Assistant and Operations Coordinator
$60,000 - $65,000 yearly
Seed the North, Inc. Hazelton, BC, Canada
Seed the North is a landscape scale ecological restoration company working on and in the soil side by side with Indigenous communities, government, businesses, nonprofits, and research institutions to create and sustain good jobs restoring wildfire and erosion affected areas, fighting the biodiversity crisis, and sequestering carbon. We are actively building our team and expanding our campus to increase our capacity to fulfill these mission critical projects for the boreal and subboreal and their communities. Due to the urgent and vital nature of ecological restoration, the Executive Assistant / Operations Coordinator should be an engaged, curious, intelligent problem solver with a high capacity for detail.  You will be supporting the founding principal, focusing on keeping Seed the North nimble and organized. In this role, you will contribute to the curriculum planning, promotion and delivery of our land based training workshops for Indigenous communities....
Administrative Support Curriculum Designer Senior Administration
Expiration Date:
Mar 25, 2025