Kootenay Lake Forest District

Post FSP approval -experiences from a tenures

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A presentation at the PFIT Post FSP Workshop by Curt Nixon/Rob McRory on MoFR’s experience implementing FSPs.

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?

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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

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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)

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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 FSP5

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

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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

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 watersheds8

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• Thanks, and do you have any questions/comments?

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