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Ecosystem-based
Planning Projects
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This page contains information about some of our completed ecosystem-based
planning projects. Follow the links (the underlined titles) to
read project summaries complete with colour maps. You can also
download the final project reports from our library.
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Creston
Community Forest Initial Ecosystem-based Plan, May 2003 Summary
The town of Creston is located in the Kootenay region of southeastern
British Columbia, near the United States border. The Creston community
forest was created in 1997 and includes the 8,500 hectare Arrow
Creek watershed that provides water for the town of Creston, the
many orchards in the area, and for the Columbia Brewing Company,
producers of Kokanee beer. The watershed is also an important recreation
area and provides significant ungulate winter range.
The Creston
Community Forest is governed by a corporation (Creston Valley
Forest Corporation) made up of equal shareholders representing
the town of Creston, the Regional District of Central Kootenay,
the Creston Area Economic Development Corporation, the Lower Kootenay
Indian Band, and the East Kootenay Environmental Society.
The community
forest has been carrying out ecosystem-based timber management
for several years, but did not have an ecosystem-based landscape
plan to guide their operations into the future. Working with Jim
Smith, the forester for the community forest, the Silva Forest
Foundation prepared initial ecosystem-based mapping that defines
a Protected Landscape Network composed of biodiversity nodes and
reserves, as well as areas that are potentially available for
timber management.
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Fraser Headwaters Proposed Conservation Plan, 2001 Summary
Working with
the Fraser Headwaters Alliance, a non-profit grassroots conservation
organization based in the Robson Valley, the Silva Forest Foundation
prepared landscape-level ecosystem-based mapping for 1.3 million
hectares (13,000 square km) in east-central British Columbia close
to the BC-Alberta border. The study area runs approximately parallel
to the Rocky Mountain Trench, stretching from Valemount in the southeast
to Sinclair Mills in the northwest, and from the height of land
in the Rocky Mountains down across the trench and up to the height
of land in the Columbia Mountains.
The Fraser Headwaters Alliance continues to work towards protecting
portions of the Robson Valley, particularly the upper reaches of
the Goat River watershed where conventional logging has now begun,
and towards ecologically responsible forest use in areas which do
not require full protection. Visit the FHA
web site for more information. Roy Howard of FHA has been nominated
for a Canadian
Environment Award, sponsored by Canadian Geographic magazine.
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Horsey Creek, 1999 Summary
The Silva Forest Foundation produced this plan for the Dunster
Community Association and the Fraser Headwaters Alliance. The goal
of the analysis, and the purpose of this report and the accompanying
maps, is to provide practical information to local residents and
groups who wish to protect, maintain, and plan for the ecologically
sustainable use of the forests and waters that occupy this part
of the Fraser River Headwaters. The plan is part of an ongoing project
to develop and implement ecosystem-based mapping for the entire
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Harrop Procter Watersheds, 1999 Summary
This plan
was completed for the Harrop-Procter
Watershed Protection Society (HPWPS). The study area is the series
of small watersheds on the south shore of the West Arm of Kootenay
Lake, above the communities of Harrop and Procter. It runs from
the west shore of Kootenay Lake in the east to the Harrop Creek
drainage in the west, and includes all of the smaller watersheds
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Cortes Island, 1996 Summary
This report
introduces the Cortes Island Ecosystem Based Plan prepared by
the Silva Forest Foundation for the Cortes
Island Forestry Committee. The Cortes Island Ecosystem Based
Plan (CIP) is a work in progress. As the maps and report show,
a great deal has been accomplished, with unprecedented input and
assistance from the local community
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Slocan Valley, 1995 Summary
This plan for the Slocan River watershed in British Columbia,
Canada represents a fundamentally different approach to looking
at, and planning human activities in ecosystems. This was the
first ecosystem-based plan completed by SFF using Geographic Information
Systems technology, and forms the foundation upon which our methodology
has been refined.
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