1. Kootenay Lake Forest District Post FSP approval -experiences from a tenures perspective 1 A presentation at the PFIT Post FSP Workshop by Curt Nixon/Rob McRory on MoFR’s experience implementing FSPs.

2. Now that we have some FSPs approved, how can we be successful…? 1. What is working well? 2. What are the ongoing challenges? 3. What do we see moving forward? 2

3. 1. What is working well? Better understanding of how it all works: -licensees are getting more comfortable with the process of plan design, seeking out info, and building internal processes to support the commitments made in the plan -increasing professional reliance- licensees are making those critical decisions themselves and not relying so much on DM input / agreement -Field Services has improved confidence- we understand and accept that risk management is required. Relinquishing the control…. -Field Services internal FSP reviews working more efficiently…focus key points Multi-district post approvals- one district takes the lead: -based on AAC -intra-district discussions on plan wording, -one consistent contact for the licensee and field services 3

4. What is working well, continued Professional discussions….always keeping the goal in mind: -face to face meetings with licensee reps and FS to review concepts- with “professional regard” ie: riparian, visuals A whole New perspective: nice change from “control by process” - to focusing discussions on how to achieve the objective or practise requirement - keying in on making sure those R/S/M are measurable, verifiable, appropriate Spirit of Cooperation: ……coming to an agreement- -on what we mutually think the legislation means.(as Bob says-we’re not lawyers) 4

5. 2. What are the on-going challenges? Interpreting that Legislation: still learning the various pathways through the rules and how to apply them –Great Fun!! ie: FHF impacting VQOs Implementing those R/S/M : “where the rubber hits the road”- instead of controlling the process, we await the result ; quite a change in tradition… Professional reliance/information gathering: staying in the loop; expecting the plan preparer to keep up with change, where to find the info…. District delegations: for overlapping linework RBI: being part of the results based inspection process; feed back to developing updated R/S/M. Using those RBI products: in the future as a basis to improve the FSP 5

6. 3.What do we see moving forward? CP approvals: a consistent approach to address legislative requirements - satisfying our own professional curiosity, or - should we, as a business practise be looking at things more thoroughly? - have we lost the benefit of a peer review? Using the legislation: ie: Exemption provisions – applying them in practise Reporting requirements of s.86: getting up to speed on using the reports… - ESF, FTA 4.0, FRMA, RESULTS FSP Tracking System: getting familiar with it, document control, linework issues 6

7. What do we see moving forward.. SNRFLs: building workable relationships with the Majors - overlapping FDUs and using multiple R/S/M Forest Practises Board: - fallout from their May 1, 2006 early report - where are you logging?, what are you saying? what are you measuring? how do we enforce it? Keeping current on Effectiveness Evaluation feedback: -how do we keep in the loop? how does it all feedback in a timely manner? Compliance +Enforcement : will start asking those tough questions - DoH! - workload, coaching and some training needs for all FS staff - what are the most likely questions and how can we prepare for them? 7

8. What do we see moving forward.. Licensee’s sharing: LU level objective requirements -Are licensees ready to cooperate and manage this with volume based tenures- new DFAM model needed? -How to be fair…adjudication of disagreements? -How to influence keeping updated databases? Participating on RBIs: seeing the results…. -how do we measure LU objectives- whose databases do we use? -roles and responsibilities? Local Public and First Nation’s Acceptance: the real test -how is the results based approach working? Ie: community watersheds 8

9. ? Thanks, and do you have any questions/comments? 9