Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department May 15, 2012 Page 1 North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative Proposal Project Title Implementing Ecosystem-based Management in the Central Coast of British Columbia: Support for Heiltsuk Participation in the Strategic Landscape Reserve Design Process Project Leaders and Principal Investigators Responsible for Completion of the Project Laurie Whitehead, MRM, Lands Manager, Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department (HIRMD) E-mail: [email protected]Phone: (250) 957-2303 ext 227; Cell: (250) 957-7818 Jennifer Carpenter, MA, Culture and Heritage Manager, HIRMD E-mail: [email protected]Phone: (250) 957-2303 Cooperators/Partners and Anticipated Project Contributions Ken Lertzman, PhD, Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment, Simon Fraser University; Director: The Hakai Network for Coastal People, Ecosystems and Management E-mail: [email protected]Phone: (778) 782-3069 Anticipated project contributions: Oversee the work of graduate student, Jordan Benner, who has worked with us on the GIS and forestry analyses that have occurred to date on the project; provide input to help inform our decisions pertaining to landscape level conservation and sustainable resource management in the face of changing climate and related stressors. See Appendix 1: Team Lead Qualifications for Project Leader/Principal Investigator and Cooperators contact information and curriculum vitae. Project Summary The project incorporates Heiltsuk Traditional Knowledge and Values into ecosystem-based management planning within Strategic Landscape Reserve Design (SLRD) Landscape Units. The SLRD process seeks to identify areas to set aside from logging (harvesting) over short and long term timeframes. Heiltsuk Traditional Use Studies (HTUS) identify harvesting and other types of cultural sites that are important to Heiltsuk well-being. HTUS data has been incorporated into GIS so that it can inform a wide range of spatial analyses. The base-line study, Map Biography, also identifies knowledge holders who will be engaged in identifying management principles. The first step for the Heiltsuk SLRD was to undertake a GIS exercise and analysis in four landscape units using data layers in GIS to buffer HTUS sites and recorded archaeological sites, and areas with high potential for presence of monumental and other cedar, plants, aquatic habitat and other resources that are of ongoing cultural importance. Next steps include expanding the GIS and analytical exercise to other landscape units (40), ground-truthing, and holding community information sessions with TUS informants, trapline owners and broad Heiltsuk membership to receive input on proposed reserves and help identify any areas we may have missed. The final step will be negotiating in a government-to-government process to set aside as reserves the areas identified through the above processes, as well as areas that others have identified as being important for maintaining biodiversity and aquatic values.
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Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department May 15, 2012
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North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative Proposal
Project Title
Implementing Ecosystem-based Management in the Central Coast of British Columbia: Support for Heiltsuk Participation in the Strategic Landscape Reserve Design Process
Project Leaders and Principal Investigators Responsible for Completion of the Project
Ken Lertzman, PhD, Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Faculty of Environment, Simon Fraser University; Director: The Hakai Network for Coastal People, Ecosystems and Management E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (778) 782-3069 Anticipated project contributions: Oversee the work of graduate student, Jordan Benner, who has worked with us on the GIS and forestry analyses that have occurred to date on the project; provide input to help inform our decisions pertaining to landscape level conservation and sustainable resource management in the face of changing climate and related stressors.
See Appendix 1: Team Lead Qualifications for Project Leader/Principal Investigator and Cooperators contact information and curriculum vitae.
Project Summary
The project incorporates Heiltsuk Traditional Knowledge and Values into ecosystem-based management planning within Strategic Landscape Reserve Design (SLRD) Landscape Units. The SLRD process seeks to identify areas to set aside from logging (harvesting) over short and long term timeframes. Heiltsuk Traditional Use Studies (HTUS) identify harvesting and other types of cultural sites that are important to Heiltsuk well-being. HTUS data has been incorporated into GIS so that it can inform a wide range of spatial analyses. The base-line study, Map Biography, also identifies knowledge holders who will be engaged in identifying management principles.
The first step for the Heiltsuk SLRD was to undertake a GIS exercise and analysis in four landscape units using data layers in GIS to buffer HTUS sites and recorded archaeological sites, and areas with high potential for presence of monumental and other cedar, plants, aquatic habitat and other resources that are of ongoing cultural importance. Next steps include expanding the GIS and analytical exercise to other landscape units (40), ground-truthing, and holding community information sessions with TUS informants, trapline owners and broad Heiltsuk membership to receive input on proposed reserves and help identify any areas we may have missed. The final step will be negotiating in a government-to-government process to set aside as reserves the areas identified through the above processes, as well as areas that others have identified as being important for maintaining biodiversity and aquatic values.
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Project Proposal
Through a series of government-to-government planning processes and agreements in 2001-20091, the Heiltsuk and neighbouring Nations have been working to implement ecosystem-based management. Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has been defined as:
A strategic approach to managing human activities that seeks to ensure the coexistence of healthy, fully functioning ecosystems and human communities. The intent is to maintain those spatial and temporal characteristics and processes of whole ecosystems such that component species and human social, economic, and cultural activities can be sustained.
The Heiltsuk Nation supports the concepts and guiding principles of EBM. It is consistent with Gvi’ilas2, in that it focuses first on what to leave behind to sustain healthy ecosystems and communities over the long term, rather than focusing on what resources can be removed to generate short-term profits. Maintaining opportunities for traditional uses of lands and waters to continue is part of EBM. Traditional use sites are in many cases still used today for traditional cultural practices. These sites include fishing sites, hunting grounds, traplines and gathering areas for food and medicinal plants. Other historical and spiritual sites include burial grounds, old village sites, traditional camp sites, hotsprings, shell middens, fish traps, cultural landscapes (landscapes associated with legends, myths and stories), locations with culturally modified trees, rock carvings and pictographs, sites of traditional resource management practices, such as controlled burning, clam gardens, and harvesting of cultural wood products (e.g. cedar bark, monumental cedars) in addition to registered archaeological sites. Government-to-government approaches to implement EBM involved developing a collaborative governance framework and agreeing on zoning for different levels and types of uses, including: Conservancies/ Protected Areas; Biodiversity, Mining and Tourism Areas; and EBM Operating Areas (where forestry and other types of development may be permitted to occur). Within EBM operating areas we are applying a Strategic Landscape Reserve Design (SLRD) process. The key goals of the SLRD are to:
Show spatially where the targets for traditional First Nation forest and heritage, old growth forest, aquatic and biodiversity values in Land Use Objectives that were legally established by Ministerial Order can be located and maintained;
Achieve progress toward First Nation cultural and economic objectives;
Provide guidance to licensees about values on the ground; and
Provide the baseline for a conservation gap analysis.
1 In 2001, Coastal First Nations and the Province entered into a General Protocol Agreement on Land Use Planning and
Interim Measures whereby they committed to work together in a spirit of mutual recognition, respect and reconciliation to resolve land use conflicts and implement interim measures initiatives. In 2006, each of the Nations, First Nations and the Province entered into a Strategic Land Use Planning Agreement (“SLUPA”), and collectively as the Coastal First Nations entered into the Land and Resource Protocol (“LRPA”) with the Province, whereby they committed to work on a Government to Government basis to implement their land use decisions and Ecosystem-Based Management. Flowing from these, a Reconciliation Protocol was signed in 2009 acknowledging coexistence of competing rights and titles, and as a bridging step to a future reconciliation of Aboriginal title, rights, and interests with provincial title, rights, and interests.
2 Gvi’ilas is a Heiltsuk term that encompasses a wide range of rules and prescriptions for human behavior with respect to
each other and with the broader natural environment. A key outcome is maintaining human and natural resilience throughout Heiltsuk traditional territory.
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We are seeking support to continue preliminary work that has been completed to show where First Nation forest and heritage resources occur. The support would be used for field verification/ground-truthing and community information sessions.
Objective
This project will contribute to Heilsuk achieving our vision for our territory:
Since time immemorial, we, the Heiltsuk people, have managed all of our territory with respect and reverence for the life it sustains, using knowledge of all marine and land resources passed down for generations. We have maintained a healthy and functioning environment while meeting our social and economic needs over hundreds of generations. Our vision for this area remains unchanged. We will continue to balance our needs with sustaining the land and resources that support us. We will continue to manage all Heiltsuk seas, lands and resources according to customary laws, traditional knowledge, and nuyem (oral tradition) handed down by our ancestors, with consideration of the most current available scientific information3.
TEK4 will be integrated to GIS in the form of inputs by HIRMD Managers, following field verification and community input sessions. A project report will also speak to the methodology used to solicit input/TEK from Heiltsuk members.
This project aligns with NPCC goals of:
Maximize the ability of partners to make informed decisions with respect to conservation and sustainable resource management of priority natural and cultural resources subject to climate change and related large-scale stressors in the NPLCC region (our intent is to maintain cedar and salmon, among other species, for future generations)
Promote identification, use, and sharing of science, traditional knowledge and other relevant information to support conservation/sustainable resource management, and adaptive management decisions (by supporting reserve designation process)
Promote coordination and efficiency of efforts among resource managers and science entities that are addressing science, traditional knowledge and other relevant information to landscape level conservation/sustainable resource management (support to assist Aboriginal participation and input to processes; with the exception of a few pilot studies, draft SLRD outcomes to date have only had forest company licensee, provincial and environmental organization input)
3 Heiltsuk Land Use Plan, 2005.
4 "TEK...can generally be defined as a body of knowledge built up by a group of people through generations of living in
close contact with nature. It includes a system of classification, a set of empirical observations and concepts or understandings about the local environment (often referred to as "the land"), and a system of rules or ethics that governs human behaviour and use of resources. The quantity and quality of this knowledge varies among community members, depending upon gender, age, social status, intellectual capability, and profession (hunter / trapper, spiritual leader, healer, etc.) With its roots firmly in the past, traditional environmental knowledge is both cumulative and dynamic, building upon experience of earlier generations, adapting to socio-economic and environmental changes and adopting useful aspects of technological innovation." (adapted from the Dene Cultural Institute, as quoted in Heiltsuk Guiding Principles for Scientific Research 1995).
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Methods
Field Verification of map polygons: Archaeological, traditional forest resource and aquatics staff will verify certain TUS categories including village and camp sites and other cultural features, fish stream and site index and cedar and other forest values presence or absence by visiting sites on preliminary maps that have been generated and recording data with a Garmin GPS unit, and taking photos to integrate into reports.
Community information and input sessions: Approximately 10 focus group sessions will be scheduled to go over results following field verification, and to seek feedback and input from hereditary chiefs and families that hold traplines and are known to use each area. Two or more community-wide information and input sessions will follow, to verify results and receive additional input.
Geographic Extent
Heiltsuk territory encompasses 16,658 square kilometers of land as well as extensive nearshore and offshore waters in an area that has only recently come to be known as the Central Coast of British Columbia. Our territorial boundaries are defined by five Heiltsuk tribal groups and extend out to international waters. We have protected approximately half of the territory in Conservancies, Parks, and Biodiversity Areas (see attached map). The SLRD process and this project focus on the Ecosystem-based Management areas.
Timeline of Schedules, Products, Outcomes
See Appendix 2 – HIRMD workplan for SLRD with tasks and timelines. Our tentative timeline for the project phases for which we are applying for support extends from July 2012 through August 2013, and is funding dependent - dates for fieldwork, events, presentations, deliverables, reporting, and project completion can be tightened up once funding is confirmed.
Budget
See Appendix 3 – Project Budget. The overall project budget is a work in progress – we expect that it will exceed $200,000. Of this we request $50,000 from NPLCC, to support ¼ of the anticipated costs for the field verification and reporting, integrating those results to GIS, and for the community input sessions, and costs for integration of results from the above processes to revised maps.
We received preliminary funding from the provincial government - $40,000 was received in December, 2009; about half of that has been used on a facilitated planning session and GIS to date; HIRMD and QQS in-kind contributions have been extensive to date, and value for our time is only roughly estimated; in the future some budget may be allocated from anticipated carbon credit revenues; some of the time for graduate student Jordan Benner may be contributed by the Hakai Network for Coastal People, Ecosystems and Management.
Disclaimer regarding Data Sharing
Project data inputs are confidential, generalized outcomes/results will be shared, along with mapping of proposed landscape reserves and rationale for polygons within landscape units.
The final products will include a report and potentially a paper to be published in a peer reviewed journal; both the report and paper will include a summary of the publically available material and the process for getting it, lessons learned, and next steps. This approach to land use planning demonstrates a best practice, and will illustrate where Aboriginal people have taken a leadership role in planning for conservation with another level of government. It will result in a product which can be disseminated to other groups hoping to do something similar.
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Appendix 1: Team Lead Qualifications Principal Investigator Contact Information and Curriculum Vitae Laurie Whitehead, Lands Manager
Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department
Curriculum Vitae: Laurie Whitehead, M.R.M. Key Strengths • Facilitate community consultation processes for land-use planning and policy development
• Develop tools, policies and procedures to support Aboriginal self-government
• Manage and coordinate projects, design workplans and budgets, and track progress
• Analyze natural resource legislation, policies and governance structures
• Collaboratively develop curriculum for youth and adult leadership education
• Research feasibility of economic development proposals and assist with business planning
• Research, planning and policy analyses related to forests and forestry, energy, protected areas, carbon
credits, referrals, and research collaborations
• Communicate research results – project reports, digital and verbal presentations
Education
Master of Resource Management; Simon Fraser University (SFU) (2002) (Thesis — Forests and First Nations Consultation: Analysis of the Legal Framework, Policies, and
Practices in British Columbia) Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and Latin American Studies joint major; SFU (1998) Diploma, Business Administration; Lethbridge Community College (1985) Post-degree training • Facilitated Planning, Group and Advanced Facilitation Skills Courses (2007 and 2009)
• Business Planning, Development and Implementation Workshops (2007 and 2008)
Lands Manager, Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department (2010-present) The main areas of responsibility for Lands Manager are: • Engagement framework implementation and referrals; • Forest stewardship and implementation of ecosystem-based management; • Community energy planning process; • Conservancy planning; • Research and educational protocol agreement development and implementation. In addition to the above Lands Manager supports departmental and tribal council strategic planning, governance, environmental, and education and capacity building initiatives.
Resource Management Consultant, Cortex Consultants Inc. (2003-2006) Forest and land use planning services for First Nation, provincial and non-government clients.
Clients and projects on a variety of natural resource management issues included:
• Kitamaat Village Council (Integrated Timber Supply and Land Use Planning/Legal Context
Analyses – 2005-2006)
• Ktunaxa Kinbasket Treaty Council (Referrals Policies and Procedures and Lands and
Resources Policy Manual Projects – 2005-2006)
• Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group (Forest Resources Economic Analysis and Treaty Chapter
Options and Scenarios Project – 2004)
• University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry (GE3LS Project and Species at Risk Project
(2006 and 2003)
• Government of British Columbia
– MOF Forest Practices Branch: State of Forests Report Project (2005)
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Scheduled elders and others to come into the school and teach Heiltsuk language
and culture
1974-76 Bella Bella Band Council Bella Bella, BC
Area Resource Worker – Land Claims
Researcher, attended workshops hosted by the UBCIC on promoting land
claims awareness in communities
Food Fish Committee facilitator
1973-74 Bella Bella Band Council Bella Bella, BC
Coordinator – Museum Research Project
Invited by the Bella Bella Band Council to develop a funding proposal to visit
museums with Heiltsuk/Bella Bella collections and bring back photographs
and documentation for local artists and cultural leaders to study
Assisted Council in obtaining funds to allow a Heiltsuk to participate as part of
the research team in travelling to museums and associated archives
With assistance of museum personnel, located 650 pieces originating from
Bella Bella in 18 museums in Canada and the USA; brought back 2000 colour
and black and white images and detailed descriptions (measurements)
1972 CKNW Vancouver, BC
Researcher and Participant
Documentary radio program on Oil Spills and potential impact on BC coast
1969-73 Department of Anthropology, UBC Vancouver, BC
Research Assistant / Teaching Assistant
Professor Wilson Duff—BC Land Claims, NWC studies, illustrations for
publications
Professor KOL Burridge—Introduction to Anthropology 101 and 401
1969-70 Vancouver Indian Centre Vancouver, BC
Summer Assistant – LIP Music Education Program
Developed a list of community resource persons in various specialty areas
Scheduled elders and others to come into the school and teach Heiltsuk
language and culture
1969-73 BC Indian Advisory Committee Victoria, BC
Bella Bella Stories Project Assistant
Joined the second year of project field work in Bella Bella and Klemtu,
summer 1969
On a volunteer basis, completed transcribing and editing stories from 1969-73
Education 2003 Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. http://campus.esri.com
Certificate of Completion, Planning for a GIS. 9 Module course on strategic business planning, offered on-line via ESRI Virtual Campus
1982 North Island College Waglisla, BC
Introduction to North Wakashan Languages and Literature: Heiltsuk and
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Oowekyala. Instructor John Rath
1968 -1973 University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC
Master of Arts Degree, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, 1973
Thesis topic: The Iconography of the Northwest Coast Raven Rattle
Course focus: anthropological theory, research methodology, religion, art and
culture, Northwest Coast and Pacific rim cultures
Extracurricular: International Club; UBC Photography Club; hiking
1967 Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Summer School course in “The Anthropology of Underdevelopment”
1962-66 Oberlin College Oberlin, OH
Bachelor of Arts Degree, 1966; Major-Art History; Minor-Anthropology
Graduated Cum Laude (“with honours”)
Liberal Arts curriculum: English composition & literature, foreign language
and literature (French, Italian), European History, world religions, biology,
flute, music theory, humanities, art history and studio art, modern and folk
dancing, anthropology, philosophy, track and field
1964-65 Syracuse University Florence, Italy
Fall and Winter, Italian Immersion Program. Courses in Italian history, art,
grammar taught in English; students boarded with Italian families who only
spoke Italian with them.
1965 University of New Mexico Taos, NM
Summer field school in Archaeology
Workshops, Seminars Needs to be updated…
2010 Heiltsuk Strategic Visioning. National Centre for First Nations Governance. Bella Bella, BC. Sept 13-15.
Performance Review Workshop. Pauline Waterfall. Bella Bella, BC. September 10.
Training in use of Referrals Tracking Software. Lori Jacobsen of DRSystems. Bella Bella, B.C. June 16 & 17.
Team Building Workshop. Dealing with Change and Transition. Mark DeVolder. Bella Bella, B.C. May 5-7.
Managing a Digitization Program. Archives Association of BC at UBC. Vancouver B.C. April 15 & 16.
2009 Duty to Consult Workshop. Heiltsuk Tribal Council & National Centre for First Nations Governance. Bella Bella, BC. September 8-10.
2008 Sixty-first Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Victoria, B.C. April 23-26.
User Needs Assessment Workshop, BC GeoGateway Project. First Nations Technology Council and ILMB. Vancouver, B.C.
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March 14.
Land Referrals Workshop (2nd). First Nations Technology Council (FNTC) Annual Conference, ICT Summit. Vancouver B.C. February 21-23.
2007 First Nations Land Referrals Forum. First Nations Technology Council and Carrier Sekani Tribal Council. Prince George, B.C. Sept. 12-13.
Heiltsuk Managers Strategic Planning Workshop. Re-establishing the BEST Program. Bella Bella, B.C. June 18.
Consultation Workshop – Heiltsuk First Nation, EAGLE Education Program, Bella Bella, B.C. June 14-15.
Collaborative Conflict Management Workshop, Diamond Institute for Integral Learning, Bella Bella, B.C. January
2005 Strategic Planning for Heiltsuk Tribal Councilors and Managers, Andrew Leach, Waglisla, B.C. January 10-14.
Nation Building: Leadership, Governance & Economic Policy, Bella Bella, B.C. Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona and Aboriginal Leadership Institute Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba, January 5-7
2001 Heiltsuk Cultural Landscape Assessment Information Sharing Meeting, Heiltsuk Treaty Office, HCLA Internal Working Group, Ecotrust Canada at Vancouver Indian Centre, Vancouver BC. JGC presentation on Heiltsuk TUS and Comprehensive Research, January 8
2000 Collaborative Evaluation Training Workshop for Heiltsuk Tribal Council
and Social Development Department, Service-Growth Consultants,
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Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Conference, Terrace (B.B. Band observer)
1972 B.C. Indian Homemakers Convention, U.B.C. (observer)
1969 Special conference on Indian Education, Kamloops, B.C. (observer)
1968 B.C. Indian Homemakers Convention, U.B.C., Vancouver (student
observer)
Other
1980—81 Member of Negotiation Team for the Heiltsuk Band Five Year
General development Plan. Met with Regional Directors in Vancouver,
and Cabinet Ministers in Ottawa (two trips)
1980 Researched and assisted in writing Heiltsuk Tribal Council’s
“Statement of Comprehensive Aboriginal Rights claim of the Heiltsuk
Nation” tabled in Ottawa, 1981
Special
1969— I have been blessed to have worked with elders in Bella Bella and
Klemtu, either on specific research projects beginning in 1969, or through
their involvement in the Yilistis Society and other elders’ groups beginning
in 1978. Although I cannot claim any special expertise as a result of this, it
has been a humbling experience, an inspiration, and a profound source of
insight to have enjoyed their trust and sharing of knowledge and wisdom. I
believe this trust and sharing is based upon their viewing me as part of a
team effort, involving Heiltsuk and non-Heiltsuk alike, to honour and pass
on important Heiltsuk knowledge and values to future generations. …My
late husband Cyril Carpenter was a constant source of knowledge,
inspiration, and encouragement—to me, the heart and soul of Heiltsuk
culture and service to community.
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Cooperator / Partner Contact Information and Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae for
Kenneth Peter Lertzman
Personal Information: University Address:
School of Resource and Environmental Management Simon Fraser University Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 (604) 291-3069 FAX: (604) 291-4968 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.rem.sfu.ca/forestry/index
Home Address: 4553 Raeburn St. (604) 929-6678 North Vancouver, B.C. V7G 1K3
Birth: December 11, 1956 in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.
Citizenship: Dual, Canadian/U.S.A. since birth.
Marital Status: Married 1987, two children. Education: B.Sc. (Honours) Zoology, University of Manitoba (1978) M.Sc. Zoology, University of British Columbia (1981) Thesis: Hummingbird mediated pollen transfer: processes and consequences. Ph.D. Zoology, University of British Columbia (1989) Thesis: Gap-phase community dynamics in a sub-alpine old-growth forest. Research Interests: Forest Ecosystem Dynamics, Conservation, and Management Natural Disturbance Regimes and Long-term Vegetation Dynamics Landscape Ecology Ecosystem-Based Management Long-term interactions between climate, ecosystems, and humans Awards Received: - W.S. Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America, 2004, for Gavin, D.G.,
Brubaker, L.B. and Lertzman, K.P. 2003. Holocene fire history of a coastal
temperate rain forest based on soil charcoal radiocarbon dates. Ecology 84(1)
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- Graduate Research in Engineering and Technology (GREAT) Fellowship (1985, 1986, 1987)
- British Columbia Post-Secondary Scholarship (1986, 1987) - IODE War Memorial Scholarship (1985, declined) - H.R. MacMillan Family Fellowship (1984) - Killam Predoctoral Fellowship (1982-84) - NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (1982) - UBC Graduate Fellowship (1980) - NRC Postgraduate Scholarship (1978-80) - University of Manitoba Science Valedictorian (1978) - E.A. Edmonds Award in Zoology (1978) - First Place, Bach Unaccompanied Violin, Manitoba Music Festival (1975) Academic Appointments: 2010- Director, Hakai Research Network for Coastal People, Ecosystems and
Management, SFU 2007- 2010 Director, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon
Fraser University. (March 1, 2007 – June 18, 2010) 2006- Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon
Fraser University. (as of Sept 1, 2006) 2005-07 Director, Cooperative Resource Management Institute, Simon Fraser
University 1996-2006 Associate Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management,
Simon Fraser University. 1994- Member, Cooperative Resource Management Institute, Simon Fraser
University 1991-96 Assistant Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management,
Simon Fraser University. 1992 - Faculty Associate, Centre for Applied Conservation Biology, University of
British Columbia 1989-91 Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Resource and Environmental
Management, Simon Fraser University. 1986-88 Visiting Scholar, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA Officer of Professional Societies, Member of Editorial Boards 2010- Governing Board, Resilience Alliance 2007-10 Ad Hoc Editor, Conservation Biology, Ecology and Society 2005-6 Member of the Board of Editors for Ecological Applications, Ecological
Society of America 2005-07 Chairman, Canada Chapter of the Ecological Society of America Membership On Government and Other Policy Advisory Panels: 2008- FORREX Ecosystem Management and Conservation Biology Working
Group 2007 Ecosystem-Based Management Working Group, Adaptive Management
Expert and Practitioner Workshop, Coastal Information Team. 2007 Stanley Park Restoration Steering Committee Expert Panel 2005-8 Member of Expert Advisory Group for the Conservation Planning Tools
Committee (CPTC) and Review Panel for Biodiversity of British Columbia Status Report. The CPTC is responsible for facilitating the development of
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a comprehensive, science-based biodiversity action plan by 2009 for British Columbia.
2002-5 Member, Coastal Information Team, Ecosystem-Based Management Framework Specialist Group
1996-99 Member of review panel for Forest Ecosystems Committee, Science Council of British Columbia/Forest Renewal BC Granting Program
1993-95 Member, Scientific Panel on Sustainable Forest Practices in Clayoquot Sound, BC Provincial Government
1993-94 Member of Coastal Biodiversity Guidelines Technical Committee, B.C. Ministry of Forests
1994 Member, Scientific Assessment Panel, B.C. Spotted Owl Recovery Team 1993 Advisor to BC Ministry of Forests on preparation of State of the Forests
Report 1993 Member of external review panel for Forest Ecosystems Dynamics Program
Review, Pacific Forestry Centre, Forestry Canada. 1991-2 Member, B.C. Ministry of Forests Biodiversity/Old Growth Technical
Advisory Committee. 1992 Technical Advisor to British Columbia Forest Resources Commission for
the development of a Forest Practices Code. 1990-91 Old Growth Strategy Project, British Columbia Ministry of Forests.
Member, Ecological Research and Inventory Team. 1990 Member, national review panel for "The Federal Role in Canada's Forests",
produced for The Parliament of Canada by the House Standing Committee on Forestry.
Organizer/Facilitator of Professional Workshops: 2011 Organized a research workshop in honour of the BC Parks Centennial at the
Hakai Beach Institute 2010 Organizer of a panel of presentations on the Faculty of Environment at SFU
at the EECOM meeting (The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication), Simon Fraser University, May 2010.
1999 Co-organizer of symposium at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America: Implications of paleorecords for ecosystem management in northwestern North America.
1995 Ecosystem management workshop for TimberWest Forest Products, Campbell River, BC (Organized with Dr. J.F. Franklin and TimberWest staff)
1994 Facilitator at Biodiversity Workshop, Organized by Centre for Applied Conservation Biology, U.B.C.
1991 Co-Chair of Non-timber Resources Workshop, Symposium on the Impacts of Climate Change on Pacific Northwest Forests.
1986 Coordinator for the Pacific Ecology Conference, held at UBC for northwestern ecology graduate students.
Invited Participant at Professional Workshops: 2012 Alaska Coastal Rainforest Centre, Juneau. Coastal Temperate Rainforests:
Integrating Science, Resource Management, and Communities. April 2012. 2011 Ecotrust Canada 15 Year Implementation Workshop for the Clayoquot
Science Panel (on the organizing committee, presenter representing the panel, moderator of discussions). Feb. 2011, Tofino, BC.
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2010 Resilience and Climate Change: Adaptation Potential for Ecological Systems and Forest Management in the West Kootenays. Nov. 2010, Nelson, BC.
2010 Whistler Wilburforce Science Communication Workshop. Oct 2010, Whistler, BC.
2010 Integrating and Applying Conservation Science for Transboundary Coastal Temperate Rainforests. Wilburforce Foundation. Seattle, WA, April 2010.
2009 Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, Resilient Ecosystems Workshop, Victoria, BC. Dec. 2009.
2009 Resilience Alliance Annual Meeting, Tofino and Gabriola Is., BC 2009 Tongass Science Workshop and Conference: Integrating conservation
biology and forest management in Southeast Alaska: a science conference. Juneau, AK, Feb. 2009. Audubon Alaska, The Nature Conservancy of Alaska, The Wilburforce Foundation.
2008 Two workshops on planning old growth representation at the stand and landscape levels under ecosystem-based management for the North and Central Coasts of British Columbia, EBM Working Group.
2007 International panel/workshop on post-fire restoration and fire management in Greece, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Dec 2007.
2001 USFS Old growth forests workshop, H.J Andrews Research Forest, Oregon. 2000 Southern Interior Forest Extension and Research Partnership (SIFERP)
workshop: Structural Attributes of Fire-Maintained Ecosystems Workshop: Bringing Together Our Knowledge
1996 Workshop on a research agenda in fire ecology, modelling, and management. Sponsored by the USDA Forest Service, PNW Region, hosted by the University of Washington, College of Forest Resources.
1996 Workshop on a natural disturbance regimes research strategy for British Columbia. Sponsored by the BC Ministry of Forests, Research Branch, Cowichan Lake, BC.
1993 Invited participant, Second Workshop to explore management and designation alternatives for the Greater Kitlope Ecosystem, Kitamaat, B.C. Sponsored by The Haisla Nation and Ecotrust.
Frazer, G., A.T. Trofymow, and K.P. Lertzman. 2000. The dynamics of canopy
structure in chronosequences of coastal temperate rainforests. Canadian Journal
of Forest Research 30(2):239-256.
1998
Frazer, G., K.P. Lertzman, and A.T. Trofymow. 1998. Developmental trends of canopy
structure in coastal forests of British Columbia. Northwest Science 72 (Special
Issue No. 2):21-22.
Wells, R.W., K.P. Lertzman, and S.C. Saunders. 1998. Old-growth definitions for the
forests of British Columbia. Natural Areas Journal 18:280-294.
Lepofsky, D., P.V. Kirch, and K.P. Lertzman. 1998. Metric analyses of prehistoric
morphological change in cultivated fruits and nuts: an example from Island
Melanesia. Journal of Archaeological Science 25(10):1001-1014.
Lertzman, K.P., B. Dorner, and J. Fall. 1998. Three kinds of heterogeneity in fire
regimes: at the crossroads of fire history and landscape ecology. Northwest
Science 72 (Special Issue):4-22.
Stone, J.N., A. MacKinnon, J.V. Parminter, and K.P. Lertzman. 1998. Coarse woody
debris decomposition documented over 65 years on southern Vancouver Island.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28(5):788-793
Schmidt, M.G., A.E. Ogden, and K.P. Lertzman. 1998. Seasonal comparison of soil
temperature and moisture in pits and mounds under vine maple gaps and conifer
canopy in a coastal western hemlock forest. Canadian Journal of Soil Science
78:291-300. 1996 Lertzman, K.P., G. Sutherland, A. Inselberg, and S. Saunders. 1996. Canopy gaps and
the landscape mosaic in a temperate rainforest. Ecology 77:1254-1270.
Lertzman, K.P., J. Raynor, and J. Wilson. 1996. Change in the B.C. forest policy sector:
a consideration of Sabatier’s advocacy coalition framework. Canadian Journal of
Political Science XXIX:111-133.
Lertzman, K., J. Raynor, and J. Wilson. 1996. Reply: On the place of ideas. Canadian
Journal of Political Science XXIX:145-148.
Lepofsky, D., K. Kusmer, B. Hayden, and K. Lertzman. 1996. Reconstructing
prehistoric socioeconomies from palaeoethnobotanical and zooarchaeological
data: an example from the British Columbia Plateau. Journal of Ethnobiology
16:31-62.
Lepofsky, D., P.V. Kirch, and K. Lertzman. 1996. Stratigraphic and paleobotanical
evidence for prehistoric human-induced environmental disturbance on Mo’orea
Island, French Polynesia. Pacific Science 50:253-273 1995
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Schiek, J., K. Lertzman, B. Nyberg and R. Page. 1995. Does patch size affect birds that
live within old-growth montane forests? Conservation Biology 9:1072-1084.
Lertzman, K.P. 1995. Forest dynamics, differential mortality rates and variable
transition probabilities. The Journal of Vegetation Science 6:191-204 Before 1995 Lertzman, K.P. 1992. Patterns of gap-phase replacement in a sub-alpine old growth
forest. Ecology 73:657-669
Lertzman, K.P., and C.J. Krebs. 1991. Gap-phase structure of a subalpine old-growth
forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 21(12):1730-1741
Sutherland, G., C.L. Gass, P. Thompson, and K.P. Lertzman. 1982. Feeding territoriality
in migrant rufous hummingbirds: defense of yellow-bellied sapsucker
(Sphyrapicus varius) feeding sites. Can. J. Zool. 60:2046-2050.
Gass, C.L. and K.P. Lertzman. 1980. Capricious mountain weather: a driving variable in
hummingbird territorial dynamics. Can. J. Zool. 58:1964-1968. Refereed Book Chapters and Reports:
Lertzman, K. and A. MacKinnon. In Press. Why Watersheds: Evaluating the Protection
of Undeveloped Watersheds as a Conservation Strategy in Northwestern North
America. In: Orians, G.H. and J.W. Schoen (editors). Ecology and Conservation
of North Pacific Rainforests. (in press) University of Washington Press, Seattle,
WA.
Hughes, J.; Fall, A.; Safranyik, L.; Lertzman, K.P. 2007. Modeling the effect of
landscape pattern on mountain pine beetles. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian
Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, British Columbia. Information
Report BC-X-407. 53 p.
Michelfelder, V. and K.P. Lertzman. 2006. Community Structure of Forage Plants
Consumed by Black Bears in the Nimpkish Valley, British Columbia. Technical
report 035. B.C. Ministry of Forests and Range, Research Branch.
Lepofsky, D. D. Hallett, K. Washbrook, A. McHalsie, K. Lertzman, and R. Mathewes.
2005. Documenting precontact plant management on the Northwest Coast: An
example of prescribed burning in the central and upper Fraser Valley, British
Columbia. In “Keeping it Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the
Northwest Coast”, edited by D.E. Deur and N.J. Turner. University of
Washington Press, Seattle.
Lertzman, K.P. and J. Fall. 1998. From forest stand to landscape: the impacts of
disturbance. Pgs. 339-367 in Peterson, D. and V.T. Parker (eds.), Scale Issues in
Ecology. Columbia University Press.
Lertzman, K., T. Spies, and F. Swanson. 1997. From ecosystem dynamics to ecosystem
management. Pgs. 361-382 in Schoonmaker, P., B. von Hagen, and E. Wolf,
(eds.), The rainforests of home: Profile of a North American Bioregion. Island
Press, Washington, D.C.
Frazer, G.W., J.A. Trofymow, and K.P. Lertzman. 1997. A method for estimating
canopy openness, effective leaf area index, and photosynthetically active photon
flux density using hemispherical photography and digital image processing
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techniques. BC-X-373. Nat. Res. Can. For. Serv., Pacific Forestry Centre,
Victoria, BC, 73 p.
Lertzman, K.P. and C.L. Gass. 1983. Alternative models of pollen transfer. in C. Jones
and C. Little (eds.), The Handbook of experimental pollination biology. Van
Nostrand Rheinhold. Software:
Frazer, G., C. Canham, and K.P. Lertzman. 1999. Gap Light Analyzer (GLA): Imaging
software to extract canopy structure and gap light transmission indices from true
colour fisheye photographs. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC and Institute
of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY
Fall, J.G. and K.P. Lertzman. 1999. An Interactive Tutorial on Fire Frequency Analysis
(ver. 3.0). Non-Refereed Book Chapters, Symposium Proceedings, and Journal Articles:
Lertzman, K. 2002. Science and indigenous people’s knowledge (summary). Pp. 29-31
In Michel, H. and D.V. Gayton (eds.) Proceedings, Linking Indigenous people’s
knowledge and western science in natural resource management. SIFERP Series
#4. Southern Interior Forest Extension and Research Partnership, Kamloops, BC.
Pp. 72.
Frazer, G.W., C.D. Canham, and K.P. Lertzman. 2000. GAP LIGHT ANALYZER
(GLA), VERSION 2.0: Image-processing software to analyze true-colour,
hemispherical canopy photographs. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of
America VOLUME 81, NO. 3, JULY 2000:191-197.
Fall, J.G. and K.P. Lertzman. 1999. An Interactive Tutorial on Fire Frequency Analysis
(ver. 3.0). Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 80(3):174-178.
Kyle, M, M. Schmidt, and K. Lertzman. 1996. A spatially dynamic riparian buffer:
conservation on the edge. Reprinting of Kyle et al. 1995 in Heit, D., H.D. Parker,
and A. Shortreid, GIS Applications in Natural Resources 2, GIS World, Inc., Fort
Collins, Colorado.
Kyle, M, M. Schmidt, and K. Lertzman. 1995. A spatially dynamic riparian buffer:
conservation on the edge. Pgs. 558-563 in Proceedings of GIS-95 International
Symposium on Geographic Information Systems, Vancouver, B.C. GIS World
Inc.
Lertzman, K.P. 1995. Notes on writing papers and theses. Bulletin of the Ecological
Society of America 76:86-90.
Lertzman, K. and P. Alaback, and N. Turner. 1994. Introduction. in Pojar, J. and A.
McKinnon, Plants of coastal British Columbia. BC Ministry of Forests/Lone
Pine Press.
Lertzman, K.P. 1993. Biodiversity research in British Columbia: what should be done?
in Fenger, M, E.H. Miller, J.F. Johnson, and E.J.R. Williams, (eds.), Our living
legacy: proceedings of a symposium on biological diversity. Royal British
Columbia Museum, Victoria, B.C.
Lertzman, K.P. 1992. Impacts of Climate Change for Pacific Northwest Forest
Management: Non-Timber Resources. Background paper. in G. Wall (ed.),
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Implications of climate change for Pacific Northwest forest management,
Proceedings of a Symposium, Seattle, Washington, Oct. 23-25, 1991. Department
of Geography Publication Series, Occasional Paper No. 15, University of
Waterloo.
Lertzman, K.P. and D. Peterson. 1992. Impacts of Climate Change for Pacific
Northwest Forest Management: Non-Timber Resources. Workshop summary. in
G. Wall (ed.), Implications of climate change for Pacific Northwest forest
management, Proceedings of a Symposium, Seattle, Washington, Oct. 23-25,
1991. Department of Geography Publication Series, Occasional Paper No. 15,
University of Waterloo.
Lertzman, K.P. 1990. From Stands to Landscapes: the processes and consequences of
spatial structure. Proceedings of Symposium: Forests - wild and managed:
differences and consequences. Students for Forestry Awareness, Faculty of
Forestry, UBC.
Lertzman, K.P. 1990. What's new about New Forestry? - Replacing arbocentrism in