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Harrop-Procter Community Co-operative: Ecosystem-based community forestry in domestic watersheds Duhamel Watershed Society public forum June 16, 2016 Rami Rothkop Erik Leslie, RPF Mill Manager, Forest Manager, HPCC HPFP President, BCCFA

1980’s and 90’s: The ‘War in the Woods’

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Harrop-Procter Forest Products

Erik: Outline 1. Management objectives 2. Ecosystem-based forest planning 3. Forestry operations 4. Climate change adaptation 12

How the movement started  Rami

Ecosystem-based community forestry  Explicitly manage for community values  Internalize the ‘externalities’  Precautionary approach  Work with natural cycles

HPCC Management Plan objectives  #1 : minimize the impacts of roads and timber harvesting on hydrology and water quality;  maintain and enhance forest structural diversity;  improve community wildfire protection;  maintain sustainable timber harvest rates, while considering ecosystem resilience and climate change projections;  etc.

Narrows and Duhamel Similarities Differences  Community watersheds  Roads/ logging history  Wildland-urban interface  North vs. south aspects  Similar terrain  Focal wildlife species  Old growth/ biodiversity  Community uses values 20

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Site-level practices  Low risk approach to water — reserves, access  Wide range of retention  Experimentation

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Climate change adaptation project Key values: water, biodiversity, infrastructure, timber/ jobs  Analyze risks  Drought, wildfire, hydrology  Specific strategies  Fuel breaks  Harvest methods  Regeneration methods  Community discussion  Regional outreach  CBT funding

Significant changes over past 30 years 40

Climate models: simplified summary Over the next 30 to 50 years:  Fall/ winter/ spring 2 - 5 warmer and 10 - 25% wetter  Summers 3 - 7 warmer and up to 30% drier  ~5 to 50 times more average annual area burned  Increased frequency and magnitude of extreme precipitation events Good enough to get started… 41

Thank you! www.hpcommunityforest.org 44