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One of several coastal ones in progress

CIT on Weds and Rained out on Thursday

Coast Information Team – Web site

Dan (reluctantly?) gave the Ecosystem Based management (EBM) intro to Handbook – apparently a numerous authored work that started out as few pages and ballooned from there.

CIT regions providing LRMP analysis for

Setting EBM targets and thresholds --
30% removal is low risk—70% is high

Getting scale right – from Landscape unit down to wartershed—presumably low risk of only cut 30% of a site series(??) in a watershed

Dan’s Project with Gitga’at and Kitasoo

What ever his claim to have authored the EBM handbook Dan has had much experience trying to apply it in practice. Grand Ideas (like Turning Point) need to be worked out on the ground --- and that was the ‘meat’ of his presentation (Here is another view as seen by Triumph Timber who is the licensee in the area—PPT with many slides blank). And an ENGO view of Triumph – flash required but good ‘show’

Dan gave a Warning too

New Era won’t allow Communities to comment below LRMP level (The companies will do all the planning for us)

First Nations are ‘luckier’ as Courts will enforce their right to be consulted

Robert Prescott-Allen then spoke

Robert’s ideas on wellbeing and how to measure it are central to the CIT approach. Here is excerpt from good intro essay on UBC site: (The CIT uses the Wellbeing Assessment methodology first pioneered by Robert Prescott-Allen (2001) that puts both social and environmental variables into a single matrix to assess community and regional wellbeing (Prescott-Allen 2001). This matrix informs resource planners about the environmental implications of human needs and the impact)

Robert’s function at this meeting was to update the table on other ‘products’ that go with the EBM (also see first image this page) Handbook – like EGSA (economic gain spatial analysis) which will be presented next month

CIT looks at Central coast & Haida Gwaii not just North Coast

And because so many ‘experts’ involved we get a cleaner view of the science – here natural watersheds not often arbitrary landscape units of foresters

Trip to Kitkatla canceled – high winds

Working out how to meet Gov’t Deadline
only till end of year

Presumably this deputy minister John O’Reardon gave a sympathetic ear – but no extra money – so everything must be squeezed into next few months and see if results are recognizable as a land use plan

Created by LG Thursday, September 18, 2003