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Kalum Plan Implementation Committee – Forest Practices Code to the Forest and Range Practices Act

Kalum Plan Implementation Committee – Forest Practices Code to the Forest and Range Practices Act. Rick Manwaring, RPF. Status of forest practices legislation transition – Kalum District. All new harvest authorities (permits) must be under a Forest Stewardship Plan by Dec 31 st .

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Kalum Plan Implementation Committee – Forest Practices Code to the Forest and Range Practices Act

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  1. Kalum Plan Implementation Committee – Forest Practices Code to the Forest and Range Practices Act Rick Manwaring, RPF

  2. Status of forest practices legislation transition – Kalum District • All new harvest authorities (permits) must be under a Forest Stewardship Plan by Dec 31st. • FSP’s approved for Kitselas Forest Products and Kalum Ventures (Kitsumkalum) • Timber Baron Forest Products – Nass TSA • FSP is submitted by BCTS • Expect Coast Tsimshian, West Fraser, Bell Pole in the next few months

  3. FSP Review; what’s different • Was…FPC Section 41 “ Manage and Conserve ” test on Forest Development Plans • Now…FRPA Section 16 “Consistency with Objectives Set by Government” test. What is the difference?

  4. FRPA Test • Licensees will only propose plan content where government “sets” objectives (results and strategies)

  5. Where do objectives come from? • Objectives Set in Regulation…. apply everywhere unless… • Ministry of Environment - authority • Integrated Land Management Bureau – authority Ex. Wildlife Habitat Areas, SRMP’s

  6. What about locally important values not captured in “objectives”? • If there is no objective set for an important value, it still must be managed for….. but it is not part of the legal content of the FSP

  7. Professional Role: • Forestry professionals (preparers, reviewers and approvers) will need to seek out standards that reflect an appropriate balance between economic, social and ecological elements for forest values.

  8. These standards could come from: • Non-legal objectives or strategies from land and resource management planning • Guidance developed for the Code environment • Existing forest management practices • Indicators from technical or scientific information • Ongoing assessment of the public interest

  9. Professional Role: • Which standard is the right standard? • Much of the guidance provided by the ABCFP is helpful in deciding which standard is the right standard; in particular, Standards of Professional Practice: Guidelines for Interpretationand Interpreting the Public’s Interest

  10. Our expectation • FRPA was designed to ensure that the high environmental standards previously provided by the Code are maintained, while providing for innovation in meeting those standards. • This innovation should lead to, progressively better forest practices standards

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