Kamloops Future Forest Strategy II

Validating Impacts, Exploring Vulnerabilities, and Developing Robust Adaptive Strategies

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I) Background Documents

Symmetree Consulting Group has made available the following files about the Kamloops Future Forest Strategy I (K1):
  • File #1 below will provide you with a general overview of climate change for the Kamloops TSA and files 2-11 are individual narratives by subzone.  Each provides a description of a probable future based on the climate change scenarios tested in K1 with the forest and stand types found in that subzone.
  1. General Trends across the TSA Nov 12-08
  2. ICHdw Ecol Narrative
  3. ICHmw Ecol Narrative
  4. ICHwk Ecol Narrative
  5. IDFdk Ecol Narrative
  6. IDFmw Ecol Narrative
  7. IDFxh Ecol Narrative
  8. MSdm Ecol Narrative
  9. MSxk Ecol Narrative
  10. PPxh Ecol Narrative
  11. SBSmm Ecol Narrative
  • K1 Final Report (Jun 09) – this is the main report covering the overall findings of the strategy.
  • KFFS Technical Presentation (June 09), this highlights the project, sensitivities, vulnerabilities and adaptive capacity issues identified for the Kamloops TSA – to view the presentation allowing notes to be viewed, save it first to your hard drive.
For additional files associated with K1 see: BC Ministry of Forests & Range Future Forest Strategy page.

II) Meeting Files

a) Client Workshop in Kamloops – February 10 – 11, 2010

Client Workshop Agenda (Feb 2010)

Backgrounder (Jan 21-10) This is a backgrounder on the first phase of the Kamloops Future Forest Strategy (K1) and an introduction to K2.

Client Summary: Management Questions (Jan 21-10) These are some example questions that emerged from K1 that could be explored in K2.

Developing Questions Table (Dec 15-09) An overview of the sensitivities and recommended management actions that came from K1 – which can be used to as context for potential management questions we may wish to explore in K2

K2 Working groups and Ecological themes (Feb 11, 10) This is a tentative list of the follow-up working groups and their potential participants.  If you missed out on signing up, or know of someone else that may be well suited to a specific working group or groups and is interested, please pass their name and email to us (dpforestry at gmail dot com).

Downloadable  Presentations given during the Workshop:

Introduction to the workshop and K2 linkages

Project Linkages (FFESC & National Context)

The Participatory Approach, Similar Experiences (Okanagan Climate Change & Water Management Studies)

K2 Overview

Potential Management Questions for K2

Introduction to the Models and Modeling Approach

Overview of Stand-level Modeling Tools and Simulating Climate Change Scenarios

Overview of Landscape-level Modeling Tools

Choosing Management Questions, Case Study Area, and Working Groups

b) Outreach in Clearwater & Barriere – April 21 – 22, 2010

Files about the project presented during meetings:

  • K2 Project description and relevance to Clearwater
  • K1 Initial project findings

Forest changes documents

  • Summary presentation on the influence of a changing climate on Kamloops forest ecosystems
  • Detailed Ecological Narratives and Summaries, from K1
  • Developing Questions table - comparison of ecological sensitivity with management sensitivity and recommended management actions for the Kamloops TSA, from K1

Tourism information

  • Possible impacts and actions
  • Assessment approaches

Community information

  • Introduction presentation: Clearwater Climate Change Adaptation Community Info

Information from other sources suggested during the sessions

  • Climate Overview 2007 – Hydroclimatology and Future Climate Impacts in BC
  • A Summary of Climate Change Effects on Watershed Hydrology Extension Note
  • BC Snow Trend Report
  • Integrated Ecological Impact Assessment: Climate Change and BC’s Forest and Range Ecosystems (attached)
  • Climate Change and Canada’s Forests
  • From Impacts to Adaptation: Canada in a Changing Climate 2007

c) Working Groups Meeting in Kamloops – June 10, 2010

Products:

Key Questions by Model June 16-10.

III) Presentations About K2

Designing a Climate Change Strategy in Southern British Columbia by Ken Zielke.  Presented by David Perez at the Society of American Foresters National Convention. November 5, 2011.

 

 

Climate Change Adaptation: Bringing Researchers & Practitioners Together to Explore Operational Questions by Harry Nelson.  A presentation for the Southern Interior Silviculture Committee in British Columbia. April 5, 2011.

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