continuation;

Consultation with water users
CVFC is committed to stewardship of water resources as the most important value in our
forests. Communication with the licensed water users is critical to delivering on this
commitment. Therefore CVFC will adopt the following procedure with regard to
consultation with water users:

Community Watersheds
• At the start of the planning process (reconnaissance phase) formally contact
representatives of the community watershed regarding possible primary forest
activities in the watershed. Contact is defined as speaking to representatives and
sending a letter to the water licensee regarding the planning phase.
• Provide information to the community watershed licensee regarding the process
and planned activity as deemed necessary or by request of the watershed licensee.
• Establish a formal communication protocol.
• Gather information regarding any aspect of the community watershed from the
licensee’s representatives.
• Share reconnaissance, layout and planning information and assessments as
requested by the watershed licensee.
• Address concerns expressed and/or information provided by the watershed
licensee in the planning phase, hydrological assessment and implementation
phases.

Domestic Watersheds – Class 2 & 3• Maintain a current list of water licensees within the watershed. Determine if a watershed
committee is functioning.
• At the start of the planning process (reconnaissance phase) contact watershed
committee members, or if no committee, individual licensees regarding possible
primary forest activities in the watershed. Contact here is defined as speaking to
committee members or individual licensees and/or sending a letter regarding the
planning phase.
• Provide information to the watershed committee or individual licensee(s)
regarding the process and planned activity as deemed necessary or by request of
the watershed licensee.
• Establish a formal communication protocol.
• Gather information regarding any aspect of the watershed from the licensee’s
representatives.
• Share reconnaissance, layout and planning information and assessments as
requested by the watershed licensee.
• Address concerns expressed and/or information provided by the watershed
licensee in the planning phase, hydrological assessment and implementation
phases.

Domestic Watersheds – Class 1•
Maintain a current list of water licensees within the watershed.
• At the start of the planning process, determine if the planned primary forest
activity may impact any of the licensed water users.
• Contact water users that may be affected to determine the status (in use) of the
water works.
• Provide information to the water licensee regarding the process and planned
activity as deemed necessary or by request of the water licensee.
• Establish a formal communication protocol.
• Share reconnaissance, layout and planning information and assessments as
requested by the water licensee.
• Address concerns expressed and/or information provided by the water licensee in
the planning and implementation phases.

The NCIDʼs experience with the CVFC concerning this section of their FSP has also
been abysmal. The CVFC has not been able to demonstrate that they have any
knowledge of the licensed water users in the Camp Run Creek watershed. They have
not contacted the Ministry of Environment for this referral information, let alone taken
the time to field locate licensed points of diversion on the creek itself. It would appear, in the NCIDʼs questioning of the CVFC, that the CVFC has failed to take any of the steps
outlined so definitively in the precise format of their FSP; they have not formally contacted the NCID, they have not provided information regarding the process and the planned activity, they have not established formal communication protocol, and they have not addressed concerns expressed and/or information provided by the NCID in the
planning phase. These are all very serious violations of their prescribed course of action
as defined in their 2007 FSP.
The CVFC has chosen instead to steadfastly ignore the NCID, and would have only contacted the water supplier “about a month before harvesting was to begin” as verbally conveyed to the NCID by CVFC Manager, Dan
Murphy. It is a shameful fact that the NCID Trustees initiated the first contacts with the
CVFC in November 2007 after hearing of the planned logging in the Camp Run Creek
watershed from a concerned North Canyon citizen. The CVFC obviously had no
intention of engaging with the NCID in the public participation procedure described in
their 2007 FSP.