DRAFT Management Plan No 2Bamfield Huu-ay-aht

Community Forest Society

P.O. Box 200, Bamfield, B.C. V0R 1B0

Tel: 250 728-3677

Bamfield Huu-ay-aht Community Forest Community Forest Agreement K1E

Date of Submission: August 2016

Prepared by Donna Underwood, RPF, Meridian Forest Services Ltd.Timber Supply Analysis Report by Wolfram Wollenhein RPF, ECON Consulting

I confirm that the submitted management plan is consistent with the Community ForestAgreement dated_________ , all relevant forestry legislation, any applicable Higher Level

plans under the Forest and Range Practices Act and any commitments agreed to byboth parties to this agreement.

RPF signature Company representative signature

Donna Underwood, RPF

Stefan Ochman

Printed Name of RPF Printed name of Companyrepresentative

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Background

The Bamfield Huu-ay-aht Community Forest (BHCF) is located on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, on the east side of Bamfield Inlet, directly adjacent to the communities of Bamfield and Anacla BC and within the traditional territory of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations . The total area of is 365 ha and is bound by TFL#44 to the east and north; by the Pacific Rim National Park to the south and Huu-ay-aht Lands to the west and north. The vast majority (96%) of the BHCF is old forest (+250 years) dominated by Western Red Cedar with small amounts of 2nd growth from logging at the turn of the century and in the 1940s and small areas of recent logging(<15 years).

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History

The BHCF was one of the first four initial Community Forest Pilot Projects established in June 1999 and the Pilot Community Forest Agreement (PCFA) Licence K1E was signed in September 2001. In 2012 Management Plan #1 was prepared thanks to the efforts of Dennis Morgan & Stefan Ochman. However, due to the changes in Community Forest Provincial Program, Management Plan #1 was not approved.

This version, now referred to as Management Plan #2 meet the requirements for the updated Community Forest Agreement (CFA) and transfer the PCFA to a Community Forest Agreement (Version 1.11 November 2015).

The objective of Management Plan #2 is:

1) To create a linkage between the values of the communities of Bamfield and Anacla and themanagement of the Community Forest Agreement (CFA).

2) To establish an Annual Allowable Cut (AAC) for the Community Forest Agreement (CFA)

Structure

The BHCF is administered by the Bamfield Huu-ay-aht Community Forest Society (BHCFS) Board of Directors with representatives from both the Bamfield and Huu-ay-aht First Nations communityof Anacla. The BHCFS Board is assisted by an ex-officio Advisory Committee, including a defacto Alberni Clayoquot Regional District (ACRD)Regional Director from Electoral Area A Bamfield.

Higher Level Plans

The BHCF is located within the Sarita Enhanced Forestry Zone under the Vancouver Island Land Use Plan (VILUP) (2000) and is a signatory to the 2016-2021 HFN Forest Stewardship Plan (FSP) which commits to measurable results and strategies under the Forest Range and Practices Act (FRPA) and the Forest Planning & Practices Regulation (FPPR).

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Part A: Linking community values to the management of the Community Forest

Mission Statement

To operate an ecologically and financially sound forest in perpetuity for the benefit of Bamfield and Huu-ay-aht First Nation communities.

Guiding Principles

The BHCFS support the following guiding principles as high level direction for the governance andmanagement within the BHCF. The guiding principles will inform and shape decision making and assist in the attainment of the vision and goals. The BHCFS will strive to promote their application by all those who work in and on BHCF governance and operations.

1. The BHCFS will create a model forest which maintains the attributes of the current forest profile around the Bamfield and Anacla settlement areas

2. The BHCFS will pursue and diversify opportunities in the areas of research, recreation, tourism, education, timber harvesting, innovation and silviculture.

3. The BHCFS will provide social benefits in the form of recreational and educational opportunities, as well as economic benefits locally and to the government of British Columbia.

4. Community involvement and participation will be encouraged and maintained.5. Ecologically sound forest practices and the best available information and professional

recommendations will be sought in planning and decision making processes. 6. The BHCFS will strive to maximize utilization and value of the forest by operating in an

economically, environmentally and socially sustainable manner.7. Forest management planning and operations will respect community recreational areas

and First Nations culturally significant areas, by limiting harvesting in these areas, and will seek opportunities for recreation, tourism and cultural development.

8. Silviculture prescriptions and treatments in the BHCF will focus on maintaining the biological integrity and diversity of the forest land base through high retention systems.

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2. Linkage of Community Forest Program Goals to Management Goals

Mission Statement: To operate an ecologically and financially sound forest in perpetuity for the benefit of Bamfield and Huu-ay-aht First Nation communities.

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CFAGoals

Linkage to AssociatedProvincial CFA Goals

BHCF Objectives

Social Provide long-term opportunities for achieving a range of community objectives, values and priorities

Identify and protect cultural resources and ecologically significant sites

Where appropriate, showcase cultural and archeological features for residents and tourists

Social Provide social benefits to British Columbia

Design trails and provide interpretative information-

Pursue development of mountain bike trails

Build an interpretive canopy platform

Social Promote community involvement and participation

Promote educational, research and training opportunities with the five western universities through the Bamfield Marine Sciences Center

Utilize research to more accurately assess growth and harvest potential

Social Promote communication and strengthen relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities and persons

Hold regular BHCFS Board meetings

Hold the BHCFS AGM (open to the communities of Bamfield & Anacla)

Economic

Provide economic benefits to British Columbia

Provide income to B.C. through stumpage revenue to the Crown

Sustainably utilize all resources within the BHCF

Facilitate small business development, salvage contractors value added timber products/ recreational tour businesses

Promote Innovative small scale forestry for local and/or small contractors. Ideally, local contractors will do the harvesting and local mills will buy the timber.

Develop educational programs concerning Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP)

Economic

Advocate forest worker safety

Follow and implement all provincial safety regulations

Broad resource

Diversify the use of and benefits derived from the Community Forest Agreement area

Construction of trails, interpretive canopy platform, identify ecological zones

Research and education

Broad resource

Undertake community forestry consistent with sound principles of environmental stewardship

Provide for the retention of old growth areas,mainly in zones 1 & 3.Over time, the BHCFS Board will identify areas within the BHCF thatwill remain as OLD GROWTH patches in

3. Botanical Forest Products

The BHCFS supports the rights of individuals and First Nations to gather food, medicinal and craftmaterials for the individual or community use in the BHCF and reserves the right to charge a fee for the production of these products; also known as Botanical Forest Products or Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs). Management and commercial harvest of botanical forest products mustbe approved by the BHCFS Board and where applicable, approval to manage for these resources will be obtained from the appropriate government agency. All NTFPs must support the BHCFS’s mission of operating an ecologically and financially sound forest in perpetuity for the benefit of Bamfield and Huu-ay-aht First Nation communities.

Objectives include:

1) The sustainable utilization of all resources within the BHCF;

2) To facilitate small business development using NTFPs, and

3) Develop educational programs concerning NTFP,

4) Establish a monitoring program to evaluate the development of any botanical forest products

Strategies include but are not limited to the following: conduct NTFP inventories, initiate researchprograms to determine regeneration rates of various species, conduct further research into the business potential of NTFP, including markets and research, determine sustainable harvest rates and develop an appropriate leasing and/or permitting system.

1. Consultation with other Forest Users

User Measures to Identify Measures to Consult

Trappers No trappers in BHCF N/A

Guide Outfitters No Guide Outfitters N/A

Range Tenure Holders

No Range Tenure Holders

N/A

First Nations Huu-ay-aht First Nation

Maa-nulth Treaty Society

First Nation information sharing is ultimately the responsibility of the Government. However, the BHCFSis committed to information sharing at Board Meetings & at the Annual General Meeting (AGM)where 50% Board Members are Huu-ay-aht citizens. Information will be disseminated via e-mail, the Bamfield corkboard, and the

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Anacla Newsletter.

Community Members

Bamfield and HFN Community members

Information will be shared at monthly Community Affairs meetings, at Community meals & Bamfield corkboard on Facebook; articles in the monthly The New Bamfielder and HFN Newsletter

Local Government Alberni Clayoquot Regional District (ACRD)

Updates will be provided at ACRD Board meetings by Electoral Area “A” Regional Director; e-mails correspondence.

Government Agencies

MFLNRO, BC Ministry ofEnvironment, Department of Fisheries and Oceans

Correspondence via e-mail and telephone.

2. Reporting

Community involvement and participation will be through activities such as the BHCFS Board meetings and the BHCFS Annual General Meeting. At the BHCFS AGM, information will be provided on our performance on meeting the guiding principles and social, economic and broad resource goals and objectives. Such information will also be shared and discussed at regular monthly community meetings such as the monthly Community Affairs meeting and community meals at the Bamfield School and at the House of Huu-ay-aht in Anacla. BHCFS Directors will also report this information at the HFN Annual People’s Assembly.

The BHCFS will also provide information about the activities in the BHCF in the monthly publication The New Bamfielder and in the HFN Newsletter. News about the BHCF will also be shared on the Bamfield corkboard facebook page.

In addition the BHCFS may organize Open Houses, organized hikes, training opportunities, participatory planning sessions and other events.

Part B. Establishing the Annual Allowable Cut

1. Proposed Allowable Annual Cut

The Annual Allowable Cut (AAC) for the BHCF has been set at 1,000 cubic meters/year as determined by the K1E license Agreement. In addition, a Timber Supply Review (TSR) report wasrequired to ensure that the AAC was attainable within the Guiding Principles of the BHCFS. This includes the incorporation of the three use designations Research/ Recreation, Harvest and

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Recreation/Harvest management structure over five geographically separate zones (Zone 1- 5)within the BHCF.

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The primary objective of Zones 1 and 3 is for research and recreation, and there are no immediate plans for harvesting particularly around the communities of Bamfield and Anacla. . Management Zones 2 and 5 have been designated for timber production and Zone 4 has been designated as an area combining timber management with recreation opportunities. The TSR base case assumed Zones 2, 4 & 5 would contribute to 100% of the available yield and Zones 1 & 3 would contribute partially with a 50% reduction in area for a base case sustainable harvest rate of 958 m3/year.

Timber Supply Review

Timber Supply Review

The Timber Supply Review (TSR) (Appendix 1) and the Inventory Data (Appendix 2) was completed by Wolfram Wollenheith, R.P.F. of ECON Consulting (February 2014) using the MoFLRNO approved software Woodlot for Windows Version 4 using VDVP and TIPSY models been appended to this Management Plan document and have considered the following:

Vegetation Resource Inventory (VRI) layer current to 2012 obtained by the BC Government GeoBC Data Distribution Services.

Other GIS layers including: streams, roads trails, VQO, scenic corridors, water licences and adjacent tenures

Cruise data (where available) Reductions that are necessary to facilitate the management and conservation of the

non-timber resource values in the CFA area including BHCF Management Zones, Silviculture practices and forest health factors that may impact timber production, Impact of permanent access structures, landings, pits and trails on the AAC

During the preparation and review of Management Plan #2, several inconsistencies in the TSR were noted. These inconsistencies have been summarized and addressed as Action Items in Appendix 3 and will be re-visited at the time of Management #3.

4. RPF Declaration

I, Donna Underwood, RPF #3136 declare that the TSR has met the requirements of section6.02 (a)-(f) of the Community Forest Agreement document.

Signed ______________________________ Date____________________

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APPENDIX 1- Timber Supply Analysis Report

Prepared for:

Community Forest Agreement K1E

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APPENDIX 2- INVENTORY DATA

Prepared for:

Community Forest Agreement K1E

By Wolfram Wollenheit, RPF of Econ Consulting

February 2014

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APPENDIX 3- MAPS

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