Founder-level relationships across the Nations of Northwest BC, built over twenty years of working in and for these communities — and the judgement to use them to bring people together.
Major projects in Ravken's service area. Territory is described by each Nation, not by us. Project locations are sourced from the BC Environmental Assessment Office and the BC Major Projects Office; their inclusion indicates operating area, not work performed by Ravken.
The Gitxsan Laxyip reach from Terrace to Hazelton to Smithers — some 35,000 km² of forests, mountains and Anaat (riverways) in Northwest BC.
95,933 km² — the equivalent of 11% of British Columbia. The north and west boundary follows the Alaska–Canada border and extends into the Yukon; the south and east takes in the upper Nass tributaries and the western half of the Stikine plateau, including the sacred headwaters of the Stikine, Nass and Skeena rivers. The communities are Telegraph Creek, Dease Lake and Iskut.
Territory descriptions are drawn from the Nations' own published material — gitxsan.ca and tahltan.org.
I am Gitxsan and Tahltan, and I have spent twenty years doing environmental work in the territories I come from — alongside good firms, good crews and the Nations who call these territories home.
Ravken exists so that more of this work is done by people from here: building capacity in the communities, teaming with the firms already on the ground, and growing through the partners we work with.
Projects go better when Nations, industry and the crews in the field are working toward the same result. A strong economy, strong communities and resilient ecosystems are not competing goals. Ravken is where my culture and my career finally point the same direction.
100% Indigenous owned — a standing commitment to the land and the communities we work alongside, and Indigenous content our clients can count toward their own commitments.
Our principal brings two decades of permitting and compliance work with provincial and federal regulators across Northwest BC — applications, conditions and reporting that hold up to review.
Ravken builds its crews from the communities it works in. Team profiles will be added as positions are filled — see Careers to register your interest.
Here is what Ravken adds to it.
Independent technical review of proponent applications and permit submissions, referrals support, Nation-side monitoring of permit and certificate conditions, and monitor and guardian programs staffed by your own members. The data we collect on your territory is yours.
See how we fit in →We build capacity inside the membership: hiring, training and mentoring Nation members on our crews, and subcontracting to Nation-owned businesses wherever the scope allows.
See how we fit in →We provide local field capacity, Indigenous content and territory knowledge under your qualified professional, and we bring partners in when a scope needs depth we don't carry in-house. Teaming is how we grow.
See how we fit in →We work inside your environmental management system, your safety program and your reporting cadence. Our job is to make the environmental side of your spread easier to run, not different.
See how we fit in →Environmental field capacity from exploration through closure, and qualified Indigenous content that counts toward your agreements with the Nations — delivered by a supplier who already knows the ground and the people on it.
See how we fit in →Safety and integrity are not compliance line items for us — they are why clients, partners and Nations can hand us high-stakes work and trust it will come back done right.
More benefit, and more range of skill and view, comes from working with others over the long term than from going it alone. We team, we subcontract, and we stay.
Every project should leave more qualified people in the communities than it found. Hiring, training and mentoring members is part of the scope, not an add-on.
We work where we come from. What happens to the water and the ground happens to us, and we treat it that way.
What we tell a client, a Nation or a regulator is what they can rely on. When the right call costs us, we make it anyway.
Safety is non-negotiable — the only acceptable outcome.
The highest probability of success at the lowest cost and least complexity.