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The Stakeholder Workshop Series
Water- Climate Change- Salmon
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What is the Stakeholder Workshop Series?
The Stakeholder Workshop Series- Research
into Policy took place over a six month period from July to December
2011. This three part workshop series created a safe space to explore,
build, and maintain links among management issues associated with: fisheries,
forestry, mining, and agriculture. The three themes for the workshop
series: water, climate change, and salmon were not mutually exclusive, each
theme overlapped, with previous discussions lending insight to the next.
The purpose of this workshop series was to address the question:
How can researchers from environmental and social sciences work with different
stakeholders to foster meaningful partnerships to inform policy decisions and
research directions based on shared knowledge?
Who Participated in the Workshop
Series?
The target audience for this workshop
series were policy makers at the level of: provincial, municipal and first
nation governments (MLA Bob Simpson, City of Williams Lake, Cariboo Regional
District, Northern Shuswap Tribal Council, Xat'sull First Nation, Williams Lake
Indian Band), local organizations (Likely Xat’sull Community Forest, Mount
Polley Mines, Gibraltar Mines, Fraser Basin Council, Horsefly Round Table,
Likely Chamber of Commerce, Cattleman’s Association, The Land Conservancy, City
of Williams Lake, The Council of Canadians, West Fraser Mills, Federation of BC
Woodlots, BC Community Forest Association, City of Williams Lake Water Advisory
Committee, Scout Island Nature Centre, Ducks Unlimited) and researchers
(FORREX, UBC’s Alex Fraser Research Forest, and UNBC). This event will
provide an opportunity to communicate how the choices we make impact the
environment and affect us as individuals, communities, and governments.
Workshop 1 - Water
Click on the links below to view Workshop 1 documents
Workshop 1 - Presenters
Sue Hemphill, Chair, Horsefly River Round Table
Presentation title- Connection Then Knowledge.
This
presentation addressed a lack of understanding combined with difficulty of
comprehending research and technical development and how this has resulted in
policy that limits the damage to watershed rather than preserving them.
Contact- shemphill@wlake.com
Mike Simpson, Senior Regional Manager, Fraser Basin
Council
Contact-
msimpson@fraserbasin.bc.ca
Phil Owens, FRBC Research Chair of Landscape Ecology, UNBC
Presentation title- Pressure on water resources in an ever
changing world.
Margot Parkes, Canada Research Chair in Health, Ecosystems and Society, UNBC
Presentation title- Watershed governance as a vehicle for
fostering social, ecological, and community health and wellbeing.
Presentation title- Understanding
Non-Point Source Pollution in Watersheds Using a Sediment Fingerprinting
Technique
Contact- koiter@unbc.ca
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Workshop 1 - Water photo album
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Workshop 2 - Climate Change
Click on the links below to see Workshop 2 documents
Workshop 2 - Presenters
Rick Brundrige, East Chilcotin Director, Cariboo Regional District
(please direct questions about this topic to-
msimpson@fraserbasin.bc.ca)
Presentation title- Meaningful Public Consultation and Revenue Sharing
Contact- bob.simpson.mla@leg.bc.ca
Stephen Déry,
Canadian Research Chair in Hydrometeorology
Presentation
title- Climate change in northern BC and its impacts on water
resource.
Contact- ray.coupe@gov.bc.ca
and federicoosorio@hotmail.com
David Zirnhelt, Chair, Grasslands Conservation Council of Canada
Presentation title- Carbon sequestering into grass
finished beef in the Cariboo.
Contact- davidzirnhelt@hotmail.com
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Workshop 3 - Salmon
Workshop 3 - Presenters
Presentation title- Landscape and Lake Linkages: Changes scales of QRRC salmon studies and educational potential
Contact- ellen@unbc.ca
John Rex, Adjunct Professor UNBC and Research Hydrologist, Ministry of Forests and Range
Presentation title-
Marine derived nutrient cycling and riparian retention for interior streams: research extension and application
Contact-john.rex@gov.bc.ca
Richard Holmes, M.
Sc., R.P. Bio, President and Senior Project Scientist of Cariboo Envirotech
Ltd.
Presentation title- A Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Salmon in the
Xeni Gwet'in Caretaker Area
Gord Sterritt, Fisheries Resource Manager, The Northern Shuswap
Tribal Council
Contact-gsterritt@nstq.org
Sam Albers, Research Associate, Quesnel River Research Centre
Presentation title- Ecosystem effects of Horsefly River salmon: An example of landscape to lakes linkages
Contact- albers@unbc.ca
Presentation title- Centralizing Fish in Water Policy: A case study of
water management concerns in the Yukon Territory.
Contact-jjoestrack@gmail.com
For more information contact-
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Erin Robinson
Workshop Facilitator
robinsoe@unbc.ca
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Phil Owens
Workshop Coordinator
owensp@unbc.ca
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For some additional activities and outcomes of this workshop series, see the links below.
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Link to related water information
Link to related salmon information 
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