Big Lake Community Hall November 22, 2015
Community Meeting
WL Community Forest
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●The City of Williams Lake and the Williams Lake Indian Band ●Invited to apply for a CFA in May, 2011
●Formed a legal partnership to hold the license ●WL Community Forest LP
●Application was submitted in 2013
●Community Forest Agreement K3A was signed in 2014.
●The Forest Stewardship Plan was approved in October, 2015.
Community Forest Agreement K3A Our Goals Are To:
●Reflect community values and respect the land;
●Sustainably manage for all forest resources;
●Enhance local partnerships that support forest education and an increased public understanding of forestry;
●Operate the Community Forest as a viable forestry enterprise;
●Realize socioeconomic benefits such as local employment and economic activity associated with milling and manufacturing; and
●Generate revenue for economic development and community stability.
Governance
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● WL Community Forest Limited Partnership
● Partners Williams Lake Indian Band & City of Williams Lake
● Board of Directors appointed by Partners
● WLIB Directors Byron Louie, Gabe Pukacz, Brian McNaughton
● City Directors Ray Sanders, Tom Foley, Darrell Garceau
● Contract Manager UBC Alex Fraser Research Forest appointed for a two-year term
Governance
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● Standing Committee on Resource Values and Interests ● Encourage meaningful consultation with residents,
communities and resource users ● Identify resource values and interests for consideration in
management of the WL Community Forest; ● Review and recommend dispersal of Community Grant Funds;
and ● Convey these recommendations to the Board of Directors
● Committee members Gord Flatt (Miocene); Susan Woermke, Leonard Teppema (Horsefly); Joan Sorley, Dave White (Big Lake); Joe Sandy (Sugarcane) Bill Stafford, Kurt Williams, Jim Hilton, Henry Doucette (Esler, Chimney Ck, Moore Mtn)
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Two Blocks in the Community Forest
● Within the traditional territory of Williams Lake Indian Band
● Contains spiritual, cultural and traditional values of importance to the WLIB
● Contains community values of local and regional importance
● Sustainable as CFA: ● Environmentally ● Ecologically ● Economically
● Vacant crown land within Forest District
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Questions and Discussion
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Planning Forestry Activities
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Approved By
Govt
Enforceable By
Govt
Desired Outcomes
Management Plan • Values, Goals,
Objectives
• Big Picture
• No End Date
Working Plan • Community Aims,
Desires, Hopes
• Detailed tactics
• Expected outcomes
• ~ 20 year horizon Forest Stewardship Plan
• Our commitments to Govt
• Fulfilling legal requirements
• Five Year horizon
Site Plan • Detailed plan for each
cutblock
• 2 year horizon
Planning Forestry Activities
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Approved By
Govt
Enforceable By
Govt
Desired Outcomes
Management Plan • Values, Goals,
Objectives
• Big Picture
• No End Date
Working Plan • Community Aims,
Desires, Hopes
• Detailed tactics
• Expected outcomes
• ~ 20 year horizon Forest Stewardship Plan
• Our commitments to Govt
• Fulfilling legal requirements
• Five Year horizon
Site Plan • Detailed plan for each
cutblock
• 2 year horizon
Potato Mountain Block Key Values
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● Mule Deer Winter Range ● Group Selection
● Visual Quality ● Shelterwoods
● Old Growth Management Areas ● Harvesting strictly
limited to maintain “Old Forest”
● Inaccessible ● Deep gullies ● Not available by
standard methods
● Timber ● Thinning,
shelterwood, clearcutting
People’s Values and Interests
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● Forest Stewardship Plan reflect government objectives that set dominant management strategies
● Other values and interests exist – Where??
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• What are your specific interests & values that we should consider?
• Where are those interests & values?
• What are the important features to recognize?
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Overlapping Tenures
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● Range Permits
● Tenured Trails
● Licensed Water Intakes
● Registered Trap Lines
● Guide Outfitters
● Hydro Easements
● Mining Claims
Many Un-Tenured Uses
e.g. firewood, walking, gathering, …
Referral Process
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●Develop the Working Plan in consultation
●Standing Committee
●Tenure holders
●Interested public
●Interest groups
●Establish relationships with over-lapping tenure holders and neighbours
●Site Plans are written for each cutblock
●Available for public review
●Open door
Working Plan
Approach to Harvesting
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● Group Selection ● Mule Deer Winter Range
● Cut 20 to 33% of the stand area ● Each 40 years ● In groups not larger than 0.5 ha
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● Shelterwoods ● Visual Quality ● Timber Production
● Remove 50% by thinning smaller trees
● Wait 10 years for regeneration ● Remove the overstory
Working Plan
Approach to Harvesting
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● Clearcutting with Reserves ● Timber ● Remove the mature stand ● Leave “legacies” for biodiversity
● Dead trees, large trees, coarse woody debris
Working Plan
Approach to Harvesting
Working Plan
Access
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●A lot of road already exists ●More than we need or want ●Public Road, Forest Service Road, Licensee Road Permits
●Undertaking an access management plan to determine which roads
●we need to take over ●should be deactivated by Licensees
●should be non-status or Wilderness roads
●Opportunity for input ●Now ●As we go forward
Questions and Discussion
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Harvest Plan 2015/16
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• Cutblocks - Mortality - Grassland restoration
• Sanitation - Fir Bark Beetle - Windthrow
Harvest Plan 2015/16
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Douglas-fir Bark Beetle
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● Population occasionally erupts from fire or weather events
● Only attack Douglas-fir, prefer stressed or recently killed trees
● Clusters of red fir trees and associated green-attack
● Big Lake – Solomon Lake area
● Throughout Flat Rock Block ● Focus harvesting on
attacked trees ● Limit spread of beetles
next year
Douglas-fir Bark Beetle Sanitation
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● Currently surveying infestation sites identified by Ministry
● Planning to salvage attacked and killed trees before spring
● Harvest infested trees only
● Small groups of trees up to 1 ha in area
Questions and Discussion
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