Minutes of January 14,
2009
January 14,
2009
LCC hours: 51 hours
Year to Date: 267
Total: 5512.4
Date: January 14,
2009
Location:
Present: James McCarthy, Bob Bielek, Bill
Russell, Jenny Millson, Dave Stringer, Robert Calhoun, Kees Stryland, Lino
Morandin, Mark Joron
Regrets: Kees Pols, Audrey Cumming, Allan
Moyle, Chris McKay, Melanie Johnson
Absent: George Sackenay, Dino Pellerin,
Bill Hutchinson, Robert Vien
MNR: Glen McFarlane, Jim Duncan, Nikki
Wood, Mac Kilgour
Guests: Jeff Leach, Tembec, Kapuskasing;
Mark Hall, Tembec,
Call to Order:
Bill
Russell called the meeting to order at 6:50 p.m.
Summary of Action Items for This
Meeting:
Action Item 1-09-01:
Transportation to
the CAF LTMD presentation being held at Abitibi Bowater in
Action Item 01-09-02:
Mac Kilgour will
send copy of the LCC survey out to the distribution list on E-mail for those
people that were not in attendance for tonight’s meeting. Please complete the
survey and forward to Mac.
Action Item 01-09-03:
That the subject of
the Nighthawk AWS review be provided for discussion and recommended approval at
the next scheduled LCC meeting
Action Item 01-09-04:
Robert Calhoun has
suggested that Matt Meade be invited to a future LCC meeting to present the
Species at Risk Act.
Review and Approval of December 10,
2008 Minutes:
Review and Approval of tonight’s
agenda:
Letters/Correspondence
·
Bill Russell provided the LCC with
an announcement from Northwatch inviting the members to attend the Timmins
Roundtable scheduled for February 7, 2009 at the Mushkegowuk Council Hall
located on
·
The Long Term Management Direction
Strategy presentation is scheduled for February 4, 2009 at the Abitibi-Bowater
office at
Action Item 1-09-01:
Transportation to the presentation
will be organized by Nikki Wood. A van will leave the OGC at 5:00
pm.
District Manager Update-Jim
Duncan
·
Staffing updates for Timmins
District include 3 new Area Technicians have started on January 5, 2009 and an
additional Area Technician will start later in April 2009. One will be stationed
in
·
MNR is presently in a hiring
constraint; Timmins District has prioritized the filling of vacancies as part of
the exercise and will fill the District Land Use Planner first followed by the
Area Biologist when the constraint is lifted.
·
The Minister of Natural Resources
will be in
·
Lino Morandin has been accepted as a
new member on the Timmins LCC. He will fulfill the role of Large Forest
Industry. Welcome to the table Lino.
LCC Survey for the
·
Mac presented the LCC survey
template to the LCC
·
He had instructed the members to
complete the survey and return a copy to him before the end of the
meeting
·
The survey will also be sent out to
the distribution list on E-mail for those people that were not in attendance for
tonight’s meeting.
·
He scanned through the survey
briefly with the members providing some explanation.
Action Item
01-09-02:
Mac Kilgour
will send copy of the LCC survey out to the distribution list on E-mail for
those people that were not in attendance for tonight’s meeting. Please complete
the survey and forward to Mac.
·
Don provided the LCC with an
overview of presentation regarding the subjects that would be discussed by Lino,
Mark and himself; The following provides a summary of their presentation (see
attachment)
·
The planned selected harvests by
forest units are similar to the LTMD Operational plan.
·
The harvest operations are planned
out for the first 5 years of cut (Table 16) and include 93 disturbances in 105
blocks. The largest block measures 10,000 ha. And the smallest block is 2 ha.
Rationale is provided for all blocks larger than 260 ha.
·
The plan lists the harvest
utilization by species, volume and destination (see harvest volume-utilization
chart)
·
The plan provides the road access
strategy and lists new access, present access and proposed abandonment. The road
section also provides for road responsibility between forest industry and MNR
and describes levels of maintenance depending on presence and level/frequency of
forest management activities. (can be found in roads section of the plan and
Appendix 2)
·
The silviculture section of the plan
was explained to the LCC members; Mark presented renewal and tending intensities
based on forest unit types and variations of prescriptions by forest unit.
·
Mark described the differences
between elite, intensive and extensive treatments and corresponding site
preparation, artificial planting and natural systems that would be used in each
type of treatment.
·
Mark explained the silviculture
field implementation schedule where the company is generally working on harvest
areas two years after harvest. FMP 21 indicates the area by prescription and
treatment. Treatments for 2009 are on areas harvest in 2007-09 harvest blocks.
·
Areas requiring tending are
identified through monitoring and assessment. Regenerated areas are surveyed and
grouped by priority for requiring tending treatments or possible return and
re-treat areas if stocking is too low (NSR 3,4,5)
·
Approximately 3600 ha. of
regenerated areas are surveyed per year for free to grow status
·
Stakeholder concerns on the forest
have almost all been addressed
·
The
·
The Planning team has met with Doyle
13 cottagers. There have been some adjustments made to the harvest plan. The
proposed changes still need to go back to the cottagers for review.
·
There are harvest areas adjacent to
private land owners on
·
In conclusion, The operational plan
supports the management strategy and therefore the Romeo Malette Forest FMP
2009-2019 is a sustainable plan
After the
presentation, there was an opportunity for questions:
·
Q: Where is the PW seed collected from
for the seedlings produced for the RMF forest
·
A: The seeds are sourced from Zone 24
which is situated along the Hwy 101 corridor.
·
Q: How much silviculture will be
undertaken each year?
·
A: $1.5mm will be budgeted to spend on
the RMF forest annually to maintain a balanced renewal program.
·
Q: Please clarify what is meant by
marten zones.
·
A: There was a requirement to provide
for a good distribution of marten cores across the forest. The
Don had
requested the members, if there were any other questions or queries after the
meeting that people could send them to the author in
writing.
Don asked
the LCC members if they were in support of the RMF draft
plan;
Bob Bielek
presented a resolution to the Timmins LCC in response to Don’s request as
follows;
“The Timmins LCC is generally
satisfied with the Romeo Malette draft FMP as presented understanding that the
public, LCC and MNR review and comment is yet to be completed which will, no
doubt, lead to certain modifications to the draft plan as it moves
forward.”
Moved to accept this
resolution:
·
Motion to accept: Bob
Bielek
·
Seconded by: Dave
Stringer
·
Carried: All in
favour
Rob McLeod
provided the LCC members with a presentation on the Nighthawk Forest Annual Work
schedule for 2009-2010 season. There will be staff changes over the next year as
Krista Mayrand will be taking maternity leave shortly. Rob will take over the
management of the forest until they have someone hired to cover Krista’s work
load in her absence. The following is a brief summary of his slide presentation
(attached):
·
Abitibi-Bowater submitted draft AWS
to MNR on December 18th
·
MNR is currently reviewing and will
provide list of alterations shortly
·
As a result of the bump up request
to MOE there was a rule set in place to harvest no more than 20% of the 10 year
allowable harvest in the first two years balanced by forest
unit
·
The Licensees scheduled to harvest
on the forest include Domtar, Grants, Tembec, Timmins Forest Products, Cutrite
Firewood, Nighthawk Timber, Norbord, Roy Warne Logging
·
Road construction scheduled for
2009-10 include work on the Pierre Lake Road, South Wellington Road, Davis Lake
Road and construction of tertiary roads within and outside of allocations as
required along with use of existing roads.
·
Silviculture projects include
proposed mechanical site preparation on 1807 ha. And chemical site preparation
of 256 ha.
·
·
A total of 400,000 trees will be
grown consisting of black spruce, white spruce, jack pine, white pine and red
pine.
·
Aerial tending projects are
scheduled for a total of 2040 ha.
·
The Company plans to assess 6313 ha
of regenerated area.
Due to the
limitation of time left in the meeting, Bill Russell had asked the members if it
would be ok to delay discussions to next meeting for recommended approval of the
Nighthawk AWS.
Action Item
01-09-03:
That the
subject of the Nighthawk AWS review be provided for discussion and recommended
approval at the next scheduled LCC meeting.
Receipt of the Nighthawk
AWS
·
Motion to accept- Jenny
Millson
·
Seconded by- James
McCarthy
·
Carried-All in
favour
Kees
provided the LCC members with an update on the CAF forest planning schedule. A
brief summary follows:
·
The LTMD presentation is scheduled
for February 4, 2009 at the Abitibi Bowater Mill in
·
Some of the accomplishments to date
include the Desired Forest Benefits meeting which had been held in September of
2008. The results of that meeting were included in the table of
objectives/targets.
·
List of Objectives/targets were
presented and reviewed by Timmins LCC members at the October and November
meetings and the LCC inputs were incorporated
·
The planning team is currently
addressing poplar decline issues, caribou strategy
Kees asked
the Timmins LCC if there was anything they want to have brought to the table to
discuss. The members responded that they are comfortable with what has been
brought to the table to date and have been kept informed. Kees will continue
with the updates as the planning team moves forward and will also start drafting
the LCC report and share with the Timmins LCC members.
Overview-Species at Risk
Presentation-Robert Calhoun
Robert
provided the Timmins LCC members with an informative discussion on the Species
at Risk presentation he had attended recently. The following is a summary of his
discussion:
·
Matt Meade (MNDM) provided a Species
at Risk presentation to the Mining Industry on January 13,
2009
·
The Act was passed in June
2008
·
There are approximately 165 species
at risk across the province
·
MNR is the agency that will regulate
the Act
·
·
Mines will require a “permit of
operations”
·
A number of concerns from the mining
industry include:
§
Mining Industry has not received any
information about the Act to this point
§
They will require permit yet there
is no regulation in place
§
This could have been added to the
Environmental process; just one more process barrier in the
way
Robert has
suggested that Matt Meade be invited to a future LCC meeting to present the
topic.
Action Item
01-09-04:
Robert
Calhoun has suggested that Matt Meade be invited to a future LCC meeting to
present the Species at Risk Act.
Round Table
Discussion-All
·
Good meeting
·
World Biodiversity Day is scheduled
for May 22, 2009
·
Welcome Lino
Morandin
·
Nice to see new faces around the
table
·
Tembec presentation provided too
much information
·
“Can’t absorb all the information
provided”
·
Would like to receive feed back from
LCC on what to present
The meeting adjourned at 9:00
pm
Motion to adjourn- Bob Bielek
Carried-All
Next
Meeting
Next
meeting scheduled for February 11, 2009 at the Fire Boardroom of the Ontario
Government Complex. Please contact Gail Krawchuk at gga@ntl.sympatico.ca if you cannot
attend.
Minutes
taken by:
Minutes approved by:
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Gail
Krawchuk
Bill Russell
LCC
Secretary
Chair