Forest Management and Water – A Risk Based Approach

1. Forest Management and Water – A Risk Based Approach

2. We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto • There are natural hazards and elements at risk on the landscape. • Land use activity can affect hazards and hazard levels. • We need to understand each situation to make informed decisions.

3. What do we do? • Think about water across the province, TSA, or operating area using a two-step risk-based approach. • Risk in simple terms is: • The likelihood of something bad happening to something you’re worried about….or should be worried about.

4. The steps • Step 1 – in house review of potential risk associated with existing or planned activities based on known information and experience. • Step 2 – more detailed assessment and planning where there is: • a suspected land use contribution to current risk levels, • legacy items like old roads • an incremental effect is expected as a result of planned activities, or • confidence is low.

5. Key questions in a risk-based approach • What elements are at risk on the landscape and where are they? • What can affect them from a hydrogeomorphic or natural hazard perspective. • What are the watershed controls or triggers associated with those hazards. • What effect has land-use activity had on those triggers and will future land-use activity affect that situation? • What can we do about it?

6. Case study – East Lake

8. Start here

9. Find the elements at risk

10. Identifynatural hazards and vulnerability

11. Understand the triggers

12. Plan and manage