Purpose

• Objectively prioritize monitoring of land use plans in Babine watershed.
  

Contents

Land Use Plan Summary – Identifies components of land use plans to monitor.

• Example:

  Goal: Maintain Biodiversity

  Objective: Maintain Natural Seral Stage Distribution

  Indicator: Percent of each seral stage relative to natural

Knowledge Base – Scientific information on land use plan goals, objectives, indicators.

• Graphs show how indicators relate to risk of not achieving an objective.
• Uncertainty about each graph is rated high, medium or low.

Monitoring Gaps – Summarizes past monitoring in Babine.

Procedures – Using Knowledge Base to determine monitoring priorities.

Priority Lists

• Collecting indicator information.
• Detecting negative consequences associated with management activities.
• Improving knowledge and reducing uncertainty about risk.
  

Determining Priorities

• If indicator data insufficient to determine or estimate risk then indicator is on list 1.
• List 2. and 3. rankings are primarily based on:
  • Evaluating current and future risk to achieving land use goals and objectives.
  • Degree of uncertainty about the level of risk.
    Rankings further refined by objective’s influence on goals, and recovery period for objective.
• Priorities also assessed with cost-benefit analysis to determine ease of monitoring.
  

Updating the Monitoring Framework

• This is a “living document” to be improved upon as better information emerges.
• Priority Lists need revising after Knowledge Base is updated.
  

Who is Involved

• The outline for the Monitoring Framework was developed by Babine Watershed Monitoring Governance Design Group.
• The Monitoring Framework was prepared by consultants Karen Price and David Daust with a grant from Ministry of Sustainable Resources Management.
• Bulkley Valley Centre for Natural Resources Research and Management administered the grant.