The opportunities and limitations of first nations forestry agreements in British Columbia: Collective experience of the Tl'azt'en nation & the future need for community-based resource management & decision-making.

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Som Bahadur Pun
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Future ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Collective Experience

The Application of Sustained Yield Management Objectives to Canada's Northern Forests

1970 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 272-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Moss
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Yield Management ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Unit Level ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Northern Forests ◽  
Sustained Yield ◽  
Normal Forest

The author discusses a number of objections which have been made against the sustained yield concept in British Columbia. These have involved questions of equal annual harvest and market fluctuations; the normal forest and retention of old growth; rotation length; the marginal tree concept; the calculation of sustained yield allowable cuts and the question of management decision-making. A number of the objections do not relate directly to the sustained yield concept but to the particular methods of its implementation in British Columbia. It is pointed out that economic principles are just as subject to discretionary interpretation as are forestry principles. There appears to be an incomplete understanding of the sustained yield concept and the importance of its application at the management unit level — the point at which its objectives and applications become factual in nature. Economic principles alone do not provide an adequate alternative to the sustained yield concept, if the abuses of forest liquidation are to be avoided but they should be given due weight in the application of the concept. The author recommends that Canada's northern forests should be managed on a sustained yield basis.

Evaluating the best available social science for natural resource management decision-making

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 80-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Charnley ◽  
Courtney Carothers ◽  
Terre Satterfield ◽  
Arielle Levine ◽  
Melissa R. Poe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Management Decision Making

scholarly journals Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Cooperative: can local knowledge inform caribou management?

Rangifer ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don E. Russell ◽  
Michael Y. Svoboda ◽  
Jadah Arokium ◽  
Dorothy Cooley
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Information Source ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Harvest Management ◽  
Herd Health ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Management Decision Making

While quantitative analyses have traditionally been used to measure overall caribou herd health, qualitative observational data can also provide timely information that reflects what people on the land are observing. The Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op (ABEKC) monitors ecological change in the range of the Porcupine Caribou Herd (PCH). The community-based monitoring component of the Co-op’s mandate involves the gathering of local knowledge through interviews with local experts in a number of communities.We analyzed the responses to interviews collected during 2000–2007 related to caribou availability, harvest success, meeting needs and caribou health during fall and spring. Interviews revealed 1) caribou greater availability during the survey period, 2) an increasing trend in the proportion of harvesters that met their needs 3) no trend in animals harvested or proportion of successful hunters and 4) improving overall caribou health throughout the period.There was no population estimate for the herd between 2001 and 2010. In 2001, 123,000 caribou were estimated in the herd. Based on an estimated 178,000 in 1989, a declining trend of ~ 3% annually occurred at least until 2001. In the interim agencies and boards feared the herd continued to decline and worked towards and finalized a Harvest Management Plan for the herd. In contrast, from the Co-op interviews all indications suggested improving herd conditions throughout most of the decade. A successful survey in 2010 determined the herd had grown to 169,000 animals. We conclude that the community-based interviews provided a valid, unique information source to better understand caribou ecology and express community perceptions of overall herd status and could provide a valuable contribution to management decision making.  We recommend that ABEKC results become standard input into Porcupine Caribou harvest management decisions and serve as a model of integrating community based monitoring data into resource management decision making throughout the north.

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