Bi-weekly Meetings

Present:

Nigel Fletcher, John McClarnon, Ralph Winter, Rocky Chan, Nola Daintith, Ivan Lister, Dave Clark, Gord Nye, Brian Raymer, Alanya Smith, Ljiljana Knezevic, Graham Hawkins, Guy Newsome, Sheldon Gagné, Janet Gagné

Strategic Planning (John McClarnon)

§         nothing new to report since January 5 meeting

Program and Operational Planning (John McClarnon)

§         nothing new to report - next scheduled meeting is February 1

Implementation (Brian Raymer)

§         John McClarnon is developing an action plan for the committee for activities over the next couple of months

§         developing RFP for implementation contractors

§         developing an RFP for recipients - to cover all necessary documentation - including a lot of flexibility to meet everyone's circumstances and ensure we have all required pieces.

Performance Measurement and Reporting (Ralph Winter)

§         nothing to report

Communications (Alanya Smith)

§         the first meeting of the communications committee is scheduled for February 15

§         members of the committee are Al Randall, Nigel Fletcher, John McClarnon, Ljiljana Knezevic and Dave Weaver - anyone else who is interested in serving on the committee should contact Alanya

§         Alayna to contact Anna Monetta re committee membership

§         an ITQ is out for research and effectiveness evaluation which includes having someone help with an overall communications strategy for the FFT program

§         this will serve as a guide for other committees to build their communications plans

Silviculture Strategy (Rocky Chan)

§         Type 1 - 100 Mile House report has been written in draft, with a few minor changes made, it can serve as a template for other reports.

§         Type 2 - Rocky Chan is meeting with districts on February 1 to sort out details and revise contracts

§         two weeks behind schedule as we haven't got all the feedback required from MOE - a conference call is scheduled for February 2 for them to provide the information

§         this week we'll iron out the details and hopefully advertise next week.

§         YKW is working on finalizing dataset with Timberline - behind schedule for about 2 weeks - however, we fully expect to deliver on schedule by the end of March

§         Quesnel project - series of meetings with Forintek and some work around designing response curves re wood stock

§         some slippage happening - report back early next week as to what likely completion level will be by March 31

Inventory (Graham Hawkins)

§         summaries have been sent out of the results of the Mesachie Lake workshop - please provide feedback by the end of this week to ensure we haven't missed anything

§         now fine-tuning criteria to rank projects relevant to other business areas

§         a session was held in November on Business Process Mapping and subsequently another session has been held in Kamloops

§         we now need to have another follow-up one day session on the process by the end of February

§         an ITAC meeting is schedule for February 6

§         starting air photo planning on Feb 7 with the Regions - this is a high priorities - deal with border districts

§         there is some inventory progress on updating small scale salvage - however there is some slippage there that will affect projects, especially slippage on Fire

Seed Planning (deferred)

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Ecosystem Restoration (Janet Gagne)

§         website is up and running for restoration planning

Effectiveness Evaluation (Alanya Smith)

§         sending out email to working groups to set priorities for draft questions

§         next meeting is scheduled for February 14

§         GIS strategy - person working on GIS to evaluate how we can use GIS in PREP program

Research (Gord Nigh)

§         the site index has been modified to make it appropriate for the FFT program - it is now posted on the website

§         first draft of the Research Strategy has been received from the consultant - some recommendations for changes have been made and a meeting is scheduled for February 3, after which it will be distributed  for further feedback

§         field guide available on demand - make sure people are aware of this decision aid

§         District have been asking for field training on site indexing - Ralph, Gord and Mario to come up with an action plan to determine if such training will be constructive

§         Prognosis Training is being held on March 9 - people should attend  where appropriate

Forest Health and Climate Change (deferred)

Species in Beetle Blocks (deferred)

Enaresde Update (Janet/Sheldon Gagné)

§         Presently updating the Program Plan - people should get their comments to Janet and John if there is anything in the PMP they want updated.

§         the Strategic Silviculture group met in early January  and has scheduled another 2-hour conference call

§         Sheldon is working on the FN consultation policy with Nola and others

§         this policy is going out for comments soon

§         Also developing an RFP package that could be advertised for April

§         workplan tables should go out within a couple days

Pricewaterhousecoopers Update (deferred)

Northern Region - Operational Update (Gord Dow)

§         there has been a resurgence in licensee interest in PWC

§         however, licensees are experiencing problems with RESULTS access for contracts

§         CANFOR has just come forward with proposals for gathering pine seed and some remote sensing projects

§         there is an interest in examining the understory retention proposal

§         biggest project - underplanting stands 125,000 ha between Fort St. John and Vanderhoof

§         a meeting with major licensees on February 2 in Prince George regarding fertilization will be focused around working together for a more cohesive program with economies of scale and efficiencies

§         $3 M of fertilizer has been ordered for activities next fiscal

Southern Region - Operational Update (Rocky Chan)

§         there is a problem with RESULTS - getting the backlog information into RESULTS may not be possible by March 31

§         there is no access for the 25-30 defunct licenses

§         BC ID can view information but not update it

§         ITER accounts are easy to issue and will solve this problem - contact John Gallagher.

§         contacts should be all done - waiting for last invoice - on schedule

§         re Williams Lake FFT meeting, a teleconference is planned for February 1 to finalize the agenda and then it will be sent out to everyone.

Next Meeting

Tuesday, February 28