MIFLAG Mid Island Forest Lands Advisory Group …

1 RATIFIED Meeting Date November 15, 2012 Revised Date: December 18, 2012 MIFLAG Page 1 of 8 MIFLAG Mid Island Forest Lands Advisory Group Meeting Minutes Meeting held in boardroom at the WFP, Menzies Bay Office Thursday, November 15, 2012 Present Member Seat John Andres Ministry of Forests, Lands & Natural Resource Sandra Barnes Campbell River Environmental Committee Colin Buss Campbell River Chamber of Commerce Clay Carlson School District 72 Richard Glover Sayward Fish and Game Club Jason Kerluck Alternate, School District 72 Norm Kirschner Village of Sayward Lynn Nash Senior s Representative Rick Wangler Steelworkers Local 1-1937 Gerald Whalley Strathcona Regional District Resource & Other Ron Frank Facilitator/Chair Tony Clark WFP, Area Engineer Cindy Fife WFP.

2 Senior Operations Forester Taisa Brown Assistant Field Planner Absent Kelly Arkell Dyer Logging Company Ltd. Maureen Brinson Member at Large Randy Frank K omox First Nation Ron Kerr City of Campbell River Rod Naknakim Laich-Kwil-Tach Treaty Society Chief John Smith Tlowitsis First Nation Guests None List of Documents: Draft Agenda for November 15, 2012 meeting Draft Minutes from October 18, 2012 meeting RATIFIED Meeting Date November 15, 2012 Revised Date: December 18, 2012 MIFLAG Page 2 of 8 Meeting was preceded by an orientation session for Jason Kerluck and Norm Kirschner at 4:30 Introductions were made around the table. Welcome to Jason Kerluck, education alternate background in forestry, and to Taisa Brown, WFP Assistant Planner. A. Procedural A i.

3 Review procedures Lynn Nash reviewed safety procedures A ii. Review/revise/adopt agenda Moved: Rick Wangler Adoption of Agenda Seconded: Gerald Whalley Vote: Adopted as is Unanimous A iii. Ratify minutes of October 18, 2012 regular meeting Moved: Gerald Whalley Adoption of Minutes Seconded: Clay Carlson Vote: Adopted as is Unanimous Gerald Whalley the minutes do not reflect my dissatisfaction with the way WFP is managing operations around the Salmon-Brewster Horse Trail discussion. A iv. Confirm date of Christmas meeting Thursday, December 20, 2012 at the Royal Coachman - To be catered with alternates and significant others. Show our appreciation to Morgan Ostler, short business section. WFP Manager dinner speaker. Confirm date of next regular meeting January 10, 2013 RATIFIED Meeting Date November 15, 2012 Revised Date: December 18, 2012 MIFLAG Page 3 of 8 B.

4 Operational Overview B i. Operation Update Tony Clark Several changes in the Operational Overview, see hard copy amendment. No recordable incidents. MIR YTD: Contractors; 0 incidents; YTD Excellent compared to last year. 926,000 m (targeting mm) YTD 108 Km of road built. Need to reach targets to avoid cut control issues. 17 Km built in October (a record amount). WFP is in the black . About $ mm YTD and $500 m last month. About $7 mm for the year. Fighting snow right now. Working in M Branch and moving down to second growth (Amor & Big Tree). Staffing compliment same as last month; 136 hourly and 26 staff. YTD exposure hours for contractors: 301,000 (36,000 for the month); for WFP 263,000 (30,000 for the month). Provided number of workers by job (eg: shop, yarding & loading).

5 Past the dryland sort at the old ferry terminal, we are building road. BC Hydro and Telus lines need to be swung over . It will develop quite a bit of wood. We may start falling in December. B ii. Information Items There was a fire out in John Fraser. A510 slide cleaned up; a debris torrent out of the timber onto the road. WR500 slide; active opening where windrow had been overwintered on the side of the road and it failed. Has been cleaned up with no impact to fish bearing waters. Ron Frank Are there any post 1995 logging area/road building slides? Cindy Fife Minor, things are much better with the new Forest practices. ACTION ITEM: WFP still needs to send out attachments, ie: presentations from the last meeting including Mike Davis . C. Outreach Opportunities Planned for December 8, 2012 from 10:00 to 2:00 , meeting at Campbell River Common.

6 Maureen, Clay and Ron to co-ordinate. Need banner, sign, pamphlets and annual reports. WFP (Cindy Fife) to assist with props . RATIFIED Meeting Date November 15, 2012 Revised Date: December 18, 2012 MIFLAG Page 4 of 8 Lynn Nash Will likely ask for an outreach opportunity with the retired teachers (25 to 40 of them) in the spring. **Third Thursday of March, outreach to retired teachers Clay Carlson Educational outreach in May. Lynn Nash and Clay Carlson to co-ordinate. Interactive (using Ron s model). Rick Wangler Fact sheets need to be updated with the new Steelworkers number 1-1937. Clay Carlson Fact sheet and membership list to be updated from Timberline Secondary School to School District 72. ---------------------------------------T en Minute Break----------------------------------- ---- D.

7 Review Parking Lot items ACTION ITEMS: Ron Frank contact the Technical Committee to clarify meaning of ..willing Aboriginal from 2008 Standard. Cindy Fife arrange a presentation on MI #7 stand level retention as a percent of total non clearcut opening area. Ron Frank review the wording in element : Ecosystem diversity with respect to the measurement of Forest area by type or species composition should - use the word must rather than should. Other tasks from the former Parking Lot: review the WFP Harvest Plans for 2013 CSA Technical Committee Jason Kerluck Do you do prescribed burning? Cindy Fife None here. Colin Buss Hazard abatement in parks. Gerald Whalley When the Memekay Flats campsite opens in the spring; shelter now under construction with concrete pad.

8 Clay Carlson Is there a recreation inventory/use study done? Ron Frank WFP commissioned a recreation study for the DFA Colin Buss It is key features that licensee s need to manage for (Charlie Cornfield identifies which key feature licensee s must manage for). RATIFIED Meeting Date November 15, 2012 Revised Date: December 18, 2012 MIFLAG Page 5 of 8 Ron Frank My summary of the DFA Recreation Report is that the Snowden, Brewster and other Sayward Forest areas provide so much more accessible and an array of recreation opportunities that the DFA is no as significant. It does identify key features to manage for. Rick Wangler Regarding the saw milling education session: dust in the saw mills is a current issue. ACTION ITEM: Cindy Fife to combine this Parking Lot with our Action item list and sort by the three categories: Field trips, Discussion Topics (Speakers) and Action Items.

9 E. Recreation indicator Gerald Whalley Economic development is important to Area A and Kelsey Bay. We have a 41 km horse trail permitted under Section 56 of the Act but that doesn t afford the type of protection to ensure the integrity of the trail (Gerald read from requirements). Width of trail Permanent access roads cross the trail and that is part of life, but we have a section where the actual logging road runs down the middle of the trail. The way it is now, there is no way to get a horse down the trail unless you go on the logging road, and you can t get off the road. It s a hazard. There may be plans to put further logging roads on the trail, so there won t be any trail. In other situations, WFP has done a good job of looking after our trail and cleaning up after road building/logging.

10 Another section, the logging road is above your head and if a logging truck comes by (Big Tree 500), a panicked horse could jump off the cliff. What we need in this indicator is some things like consultation in advance , advising WFP engineers of horse hazards. I think there is a way to help this thing work for everyone. John Andres I found this interesting. I heard you say you were looking for better consultation. Gerald Whalley That s right. I m not saying stay away from our trail. But if logging roads are developed on top of the trail, then there will be no trail. The trail is established (20m corridor). This is the only permitted equine trial on Vancouver Island . It has substantial campsites on both ends of the trail. Lynn Nash there needs to be some opportunity for relocation of the trail.