Cultural Heritage Resource Effectiveness Evaluation pilot project

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Cultural Heritage Resource Effectiveness
Evaluation pilot project
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Acknowledgements thank you!

• District MoFR staff Chilcotin FD Cariboo Forest
  District South Island Forest District Fort
  St.James Forest District Queen Charlotte Islands
  Forest District
• Regional MoFR staff Coast Forest Region
  Northern Interior Region Southern Interior
  Region
• Participating First Nations Ulkatcho First
  Nation Tsilhqotin National Government
  Hupacasath First Nation Tseshaht First Nation
  Nakadli First Nation Yekooche First Nation
  Haida Nation

Participating Licensees BCTS West Fraser Yun
Ka Whuten Holdings Western Forest Products
Pope and Talbot Ltd. Facilitators CHR Working
Group The FREP team
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CHR Effectiveness EvaluationsFREP Priority
Research Question

• Are cultural heritage resources being conserved,
  and where necessary protected for First Nations
  cultural and traditional activities as a result
  of forest practices?

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CHR Effectiveness EvaluationsWhere do we start?
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CHR Effectiveness Evaluations a unique challenge
for FREP

• A social resource
• What are cultural heritage resources?
• Confidentiality of CHR information
• New information-sharing responsibilities in the
  planning process

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CHR Effectiveness Evaluations Progress to date

• Working Group assembled (July-August)
• Project Charter and Communications Plan completed
  (August 2006)
• Pilot areas selected (Sept-Nov 2006)
• Indicator development workshops held in 3 pilot
  districts (Jan-Feb 2007)
• Dialogue and communication with CCMM FNFC FN
  MPB regional Aboriginal Affairs staff academia
  (ongoing)
• Next Steps?
• Indicator Development Workshop in QCI Forest
  District (March 2007)
• Provincial meeting with FN, district and regional
  staff (March 2007)

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CHR Pilot Project Working Group

• Darrell Robb Director, AAB (Project Sponsor)
• Lisa Levesque FREP Research Officer (Project
  Coordinator)
• Diane Goode Manager, Litigation and Policy
  Analysis (HAA)
• Dawna Harden Manager, Policy and Interim
  Measures (HAA)
• Peter Bradford FREP Coordinator (FPB)
• Renee Mulligan A/ Policy Analyst (HAA)
• Mark Hamm First Nations Relations Manager (RSI)
• Harry Jennings Regional Forest Practices
  Specialist (RSI)
• Ed Hoffman First Nations Relations Manager (RNI)
• Peter Poland First Nations Relations Manager
  (RCO)

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CHR Effectiveness Evaluations Progress to
datecont

• Prepared preliminary Project Plan (July 10)
• Working Group assembled (July-August)
• Project Charter and Communications Plan completed
  (August 2006)
• Pilot areas selected (Sept-Nov 2006)
• Indicator development workshops held in 3 pilot
  districts (Jan-Feb 2007)
• Dialogue and communication with CCMM FNFC FN
  MPB regional Aboriginal Affairs staff academia
  (ongoing)
• Next Steps?
• Indicator Development Workshop in QCI Forest
  District (March 2007)
• Provincial meeting with FN, district and regional
  staff (March 2007)

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Workshop Objectives

• To build relationships between FREP, First
  Nations, MoFR district and regional staff, and
  forest licensees
• To identify local and regional issues related to
  the management of cultural heritage
  resources/cultural values and
• To discuss and gather feedback on an initial set
  of process indicators

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• CORE PROCESS INDICATORS
• Provincially applicable
• Focus on information-sharing processes and
  communication, policy and planning framework, FN
  participation in planning, documentation of CHR
  information, and FN capacity

Pilot Project

• CORE OUTCOME INDICATORS?
• CORE INDICATOR CATEGORIES?
• Provincially applicable
• Are there resource-specific concerns that are
  common across multiple First Nations? If so, at
  what scale?

Long-term Goal

• LOCAL OUTCOME INDICATORS
• Locally applicable
• Focus on resource-specific issues that are of
  specific concern to a particular community or
  First Nation

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Key points from the workshops

• Most First Nations are challenged by a lack of
  capacity and resources to engage in
  information-sharing and forest management
  planning
• First Nations have a great interest in
  ground-based monitoring (but may lack the
  resources to do so)
• Respectful relationships and ongoing
  communication are crucial to the effective
  management of CHRs on the land base
• Documentation and availability of CHR information
  varies considerably among First Nations

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Key points from the workshops..cont

• FREP needs to engage First Nations to a much
  greater extent on all aspects of our resource
  stewardship mandate and
• FREP needs to explore the concept that cultural
  heritage resource values are encompassed in and
  directly related to all other FREP resource
  values. How can we incorporate cultural values
  into the indicators and protocols for other
  resource values?

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CHR Effectiveness Evaluations Progress to
date..cont

• Prepared preliminary Project Plan (July 10)
• Working Group assembled (July-August)
• Project Charter and Communications Plan completed
  (August 2006)
• Pilot areas selected (Sept-Nov 2006)
• Indicator development workshops held in 3 pilot
  districts (Jan-Feb 2007)
• Dialogue and communication with multiple
  organizations CCMM FNFC FN MPB regional
  Aboriginal Affairs staff academia (ongoing)
• Next Steps
• Indicator Development Workshop in QCI Forest
  District (March 2007)
• Provincial meeting with FN, district and regional
  staff (March 2007)

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A local perspective DCHCHR monitoring on the
ground?

• What do CHR values look like at the district
  level?
• Can we incorporate CHR values into other FREP
  field protocols?
• What are the key challenges and considerations in
  working with/developing indicators with FN
  communities?