Minutes

At each general meeting, the BVCRB Directors approve the previous meeting's minutes by consensus. Occasionally, there may a delay if a quorum is not present at the meeting. Please note that the BVCRB does not meet in July or August.

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Presentations and correspondance are in bold, under the relevant meeting. Please request presentations if you are interested as they are not always posted.

2025

June 16, minutes still in draft
- Letter to the District Manager Cam Bently and Tara Dunphy, Ministry of Forests, Skeena Region regarding Grizzlies and predator management
- Letter to Cassandra Enns, P.Ag | Licensed Land Officer | Mountain Resorts Branch Tourism Sector Strategy Division, Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport regarding the expansion of the Controlled Recreation Area on Hudson Bay and Mountain Bike Trail Building
- Map showing Hudson Bay Mountain Resort CRA Borders now and in 2008
May 17, 2025
April 21, 2025
- Letter from the Skeena Cattlemen
March 17, 2025 minutes
- Letter regarding Recreation Site (REC 3562) Canyon Creek Ski Area, LRMP Planning Unit 6 to Brandy Hughes, District Recreation Officer, Recreation Sites and Trails BC and Darrell Whelan, Timber Sales Manager, BC Timber Sales Babine
February 17, 2025 minutes
- Cam Bently and Tara Dunphy, Ministry of Forests, Skeena Region regarding definitions of Old Growth
- Cam Bently and Tara Dunphy, Ministry of Forests, Skeena Region regarding sharing insights from of the BuMo FLP
- Letter to Ministers requesting review of the Bulkley Wildlife Habitat Management Areas and Fish and Wildlife Reserves
- Canyon Creek Recreation Society to the Minister of Forests re: Protection of Volunteer-operated Recreation Sites and Trails in British Columbia
Jan. 20th, 2025 minutes
- Feb 17 draft template - for FLP planning
- Patchworks Demonstration, MSTeams recording
- Patchworks Summary, one page
- Structured Decision Making Primer

2024

December 16, 2024 minutes
November 18, 2024 minutes
- Letter to Jennie Aikman, Executive Director, Recreation Sites and Trails
Fall 2024 Outgoing Correspondance

Approved September 16, 2024 minutes

several letters to First Nations highlighting BVCRB support for Old Growth, letter to the OW
Background Documents

June 2024, Correspondence with the Ministry of Water, Lands and Resource Stewardship (WLRS)
Primer for the interested: Structured Decision Making A Common Sense Approach to Better Decisions
From Len Vanderstar, updates on the SMBA Round the Mountain Bike Trails
For the attention of Directors:
Bulkley-Morice Forest Landscape Plan Process Suggested Changes
Raceway NE Agriculture Development Area (ADA) Site Inspection Report

April 15, 2024
- Presentation by Sybille Haeussler PhD, RFP(ret) on Maintaining Ecological Integrity of Bulkley TSA Planning/Landscape Units
- Presentation of the Bulkley and Morice Timber Supply Area and Forest Landscape Planning
- A Boundary map for the Bulkley and Morice TSA

Mar 18, 2024
- Presentation from Dave Duncan: Biodiversity and Wildlife: A Case Study
Feb 24, 2024
- Correspondance
  - From Len Vanderstar: Draft Biodiversity & Ecosystem Health Framework
  - For circulation to members: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2024/new-investigation-shows-drax-has-sourced-logs-from-british-columbias-rarest-old-growth-forests-for-its-pellet-mills/
Jan 15, 2024
- Correspondance
  - Deb Wellwood to the Board with ideas on how to continue engagement
  - Tara Dunphy to CRB, Director of Strategic Initiatives and Forest Landscape Planning Skeena Natural Resource Region, Ministry of Forests
  - Bulkley Morice TSA map sent by Tara Dunphy, Ministry of Forests

2023

December 18, 2023
- Presentation tonight, an Intro to the Bulkley & Morice Forest Landscape Planning Processes, Cam Bentley, District Manager Regional Operations - Skeena Stikine Natural Resource District
- Marisa Ashley, DSS Land and Resource Coordinator, CLWRR
  and Cam Bentley on Wildfire Reduction and Resiliency success and long term planning.
- Correspondance
  - BVCRB, Wildlife for Tomorrow, Bulkley Valley Stewardship Coalition, Skeena Wild Conservation Trust, and the Kalum Plan Implementation Committee to the Honourable Nathan Cullen and Ms Lori Halls, Deputy Minister on the Skeena Region Cancellation of Conservation Lands_Dec 15, 2023
  - Dean Daly to the Ministry of Forests, Glen Buhr, RFP, Stewardship Forester re: the land use designation for Agricultural and Wildlife Zone FID#79
November 20, 2023
The October meeting was cancelled.
Sept 19, 2023
June 19, 2023
- Correspondance
  - CRB to MLA Nathan Cullen July_2023
  - CRB to DM_Regional Operations Natural Resource District_June12_2023
- Background regarding the WHMA or Section 16 and 17 or Agriculatural and Wildlife Zone cancellations
  - LenV to Curtis Paul Mar 2023, comments on a proposed FSP
  - Geoff Recknell_RegionalED_Skeena to Greg Knox, Skeena Wild Conservation Trust April 2021
  - Geoff Recknell to the BVCRB Dec 2020
  - BVCRB to Geoff Recknell Nov 2020
  - BVCRB to Len 2018
  - ILMB to Len Vanderstar 2010
May 15, 2023
- Documents from the May Old Growth strategy Workshop in Terrace
- Field Visit to Deception Lake (a Wildfire Reduction and Resiliency area) Notes and Photos by Paula Bartemucci, MSc, RPBio
- WRR Field Visit Notes by Bob Mitchell, RPF Retired, Member Bulkley Valley Community Resource Board
April 24, 2023
- Management Conditions for BV WHMA and Fish & Wildlife Reserves referenced in the meeting
- Documents from the May Old Growth strategy Workshop in Terrace
- Correspondance between Len Vanderstar the Province and BVCRB - an email chain
- The Provincial Lanscape Corridor Decision matrix
March 21, 2023
February 21, 2023
- For a look at the presentation from Cam Bently: Bulkey and Morice TSA's
- For CARBON GOALS AND STRATEGIES FOR THE WETZIN'KWA COMMUNITY FOREST
- For a map on the reroute of the Cronin Trail

Janurary 23, 2023
- For a look at the Silvicon presentation on the WCFC use this link
- For correspondance from the EAO concerning Tenas

2022

December 19, 2022
- A letter from Anne Hetherington concerning Tyee Lake WHMA and Babine Lake Rd re: Goshawk Territory
November 21, 2022
October 17, 2022
June 20, 2022
May 16, 2022, Guests: Anne Hetherington and Jay Gilden
- A letter from the Board to Adam Burdett re: Wildfire Risk Reduction Prescription (the Prescription) as prepared by Silvicon Services Inc for the BC Wildfire Service on March 21st, 2022. This plan described forestry activities on Seymour Ridge, within the Core Ecosystem as identified by the Bulkley Valley Land and Resource Management Plan (BVLRMP).
- A letter from Jay Gilden concerning WHMA and UREP cancellations.
April 18, 2022 Guests: Tara Dunphy (Resource Manager) FLNR:EX ; Cam Bentley (Resource Operations Manager, Nadina-Skeena Stikine District) FLN- R:EX , Anne Hetherington, Allan Baxter (PIR), Ingrid Farnwell, Len Vanderstar, Glen Buhr (Stewardship Officer) (glen.Buhr@gov.bc.ca)
- WHMA's and F&W Reserve cancellation presentation by guest Len Vanderstar RP Bio, RPF (Retired), RCGS Fellow Former Conservation Lands Lead for Skeena Region
- WHA Telkwa Caribou Offsets by guest Glen Buhr RPF, Stewardship Officer, Ministry of Forests, Skeena Stikine Natural Resource District
March 21, 2022 Guests: Luke FLNR:EX ; Sarah FLNR:EX ; Burdett, Adam FLNR:EX ; Tara (Resource Manager) FLNR:EX ; Bentley, Cam (Resource Operations Manager, Nadina-Skeena Stikine District) FLNR:EX , Aurora Lavender (Assistant GM, Wetzin’kwa Community Forest), Jade Laramie (West Fraser), Paul Schwartz (PIR)
- Old Growth Deferral presentation by guest Tara Dunphy, Resource Manager, Nadina-Skeena Stikine District
February 21, 2022
January 17, 2022

2021

December 20, 2021
November 15, 2021, Guests: Rob Stewart and Cam Bentley addressing The Old Growth Deferral Strategy and it's impact on the Bulkley LRMP
October 18, 2021
October 4, 2021, Meeting with the Minister of State for Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Honourable Nathan Cullen
September 20, 2021
June 21, 2021
April 19, 2021
March 15, 2021
February 15, 2021
January 18, 2021
Presentations: Cronin Trail Planning and Letter of Request from BC Parks

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