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Heritage Resources

Through its sister company, FMA Heritage Resources Consultants Inc., AXYS provides a wide range of services related to the identification, investigation, preservation and interpretation of historical/heritage resources including pre-contact and historic archaeological sites, and palaeontological sites.

Specializing in the western and northern regions of North America, FMA also provides direction and archival services relevant to aboriginal traditional territories and activities as well as traditional land use.

FMA is committed to the preservation and management of cultural properties in consultation with First Nation peoples and has focused on potential impact to cultural properties and land use by proposed development projects. FMA has prepared both position papers and impact reports related to proposed developments for consideration by review boards without compromising aboriginal confidentiality or reverence.

Services

• Traditional land use studies
• Traditional ecological knowledge
• Traditional food studies
• Historical resources overview
• Aboriginal consultation
• Land claims
• Pre-development services
• Long-term management programs
• Archival research
• Public education programs
• Legal testimony
• Socio-economic assessments and studies
• Post-impact assessment studies

FMA Experience

Corporate experience includes the successful completion of over 1,400 projects encompassing:

• over 100,000 km of linear impact studies (pipeline, highway, and power transmission systems)
• almost 9,000 ha of residential and commercial subdivision studies
• over 35,000 ha of in-situ recovery and oil sands mining studies
• more than 50,000 ha of large scale recreational area, golf course, grazing lease, and water impoundment area studies as well as park interpretive developments