CORNER BROOK PULP
AND PAPER LIMITED
WOODLANDS
Public Advisory Committee
Minutes – Meeting #4
Date: May 15, 2003
Glynmill Inn, Corner Brook
Attendance – see attached attendance sheet
Welcome and Introductions – David Smallwood
Item 1: Review of Minutes and Action Items from April 30, 2003 (D. Smallwood)
 W. Bartlett – Concern about item brought up at last meeting. Aware of PCT,
however, not aware of commercial thinning.
 C. Hodinott – Anxious to hear about action item 9.
 Accepted by E. Anstey
 Seconded by P. McGinn
 Action item 1 - Newsletters and the NLFPA supplement available for committee
members.
 Action item 2 - Proposed two half-day field trips. June 12th morning – harvesting.
June 19th morning – silviculture. Sign-up sheet to be circulated at the next
meeting.
 Action items 4, 5, 8, and 10 are addressed in the handout “Indicator Profiles
Criterion 1”.
 Action item 6 – Karen contacted Christine Doucet from the Inland Fish and
Wildlife Division. She is extremely busy at the moment, however, she does not
have sufficient habitat data for any wildlife species at this point that we could use
for indicator purposes. She mentioned the work being done on woodland caribou
and boreal owl.
 Action item 9 – W. Brown spoke to W. Kelly of the DFRA. (See attached notes).
Item 2: Presentation on Wood Supply (L. Moores)
 See attached.
 W. Bartlett – How do you know your figures are accurate? The age of trees is not
specific enough.
 M. Churchill – Maps are broken down into 20-year intervals as is the data in the
inventory. (0-20, 21-40, 41-60, 61-80, 81+)
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 M. Lawlor – The province is doing exercises to measure the specific ages of older
stands on the ground. Stands are also flown and checked for regeneration.
 F. Butt – Stands that are harvested are accurately aged in the inventory.
 W. Bartlett – Questions the information. Being told the wood is there, but how
can I really know that the wood is there? Age classes seem very broad.
 M. Churchill – Cutoff for harvest is 60 years. Before harvesting a stand,
somebody goes out to verify the age of the stand. If it is not 60, it won’t be
harvested.
 L. Moores – Those types of detailed information are available.
 E. Anstey – Perhaps Wilf is suggesting that a different age-class system would be
more appropriate. For example: 0-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, etc.
 W. Bartlett – Before I believe that we have sustainable forestry in this province,
someone will have to show me on paper how much wood there is.
 M. Brake – That information is not important until it becomes time to harvest –
i.e. 60 years of age.
 C. Hodinott – Does DFRA do analysis every 5 years? That’s how our AAC was
recently adjusted.
 L. Moores – Every 5 years, a timber analysis is done.
 (C. Callahan left and T. Philpott arrived)
 W. Bartlett - If I make decisions, I want to be sure I have the right information to
make them. I don’t want to have the same thing happen to the forest as happened
to the fishery.
 M. Churchill – On field trip, we can visit sites that are 0-20, 21-40, 41-60, etc.
Invited W. Bartlett to come down to CBPPL office to see how it’s done.
ACTION ITEM 1: Bring figures on volume available in age class for next meeting.
 L. Hounsell – How are ages verified on field trip without cutting down the tree.
 M. Churchill – Increment borer bores a hole through the tree and extracts a core
from which the rings are counted.
 B. Ball – Most areas regenerate naturally, yet you have an extensive planting
program. How do you determine which areas need planting?
 W. Brown – Those areas that do not regenerate enough get planted. Regeneration
surveys are conducted. Planting accounts for 15% of the area harvested. There is a
minimum stocking standard (one tree for every stump).
 L. Daye – Questioned densities on cutovers.
 W. Brown – Black spruce are planted a bit closer to each other (~2500 stems/ha).
Balsam Fir are stocked at ~2000 stems/ha. The same densities are used for both PCT
and planting.
 C. Hodinott – Do you spread silviculture work among districts as you do
harvesting?
 W. Brown – Yes. Everything we can PCT is in the works. If an area fails to
regenerate in East River, it gets the same kind of attention as if it were to rail
regeneration in Western Newfoundland.
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Item 3: Feedback on the Process
 D. Smallwood – Questioned the group about their feelings on the process so far.
 No comments from the committee.
Item 4: Progress
 L. Hounsell – Questioned when the targets will be addressed.
 K. Saunders – Chart is to be updated each week with progress. Current data for
Criterion 1 indicators handed out at this meeting. Targets will be discussed at the
next meeting pending time constraints. Each of the other Criteria will roll in
sequence through each of the values, objectives, indicators and targets.
Item 5: Criterion 2 – Maintenance and Enhancement of Forest Ecosystem Condition and
Productivity – K. Saunders
 Reviewed Values and Objectives and discussed suggested indicators. Agreed upon
the following indicators:
 Element 2.1 – Forest Ecosystem Resilience: Stocking and percent of successfully
regenerated cutovers after harvest, insect damage and fire.
ACTION ITEM 2: Collect current data for Indicator 2.1.1 – Average stocking and percent of
successfully regenerated cutovers after harvest, insect damage and fire.
 Agreed to drop the second suggestion since it is something that legislatively must
be done anyways. Decided to add fire to the first suggestion.
 L. Hounsell – Harvesting is an important part of resilience. Harvesting methods
likely have an impact on resiliency. If you want to maintain resiliency, you must
make sure that your harvesting techniques are sensitive.
 L. Daye – What happens if we have only 65% regeneration? Does that mean that
the forest is not resilient?
SUPPER! SUPPER! SUPPER ! SUPPER! SUPPER! SUPPER! SUPPER! SUPPER!
 Element 2.2 – Forest Ecosystem Productivity: Mean annual increment (tree growth
year). (This is calculated by taking the volume of trees and dividing by the age.)
ACTION ITEM 3: Collect current data for Indicator 2.2.1 – Mean annual increment.
 Element 2.2 – Forest Ecosystem Productivity: Use the results of BAP (Biodiversity
Assessment Project) once available. (This information will ensure that we are
considering productivity of other organisms as well as of trees).
ACTION ITEM 4: Produce indicator profile for future BAP indicator.
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 C. Hodinott – Questioned whether stems per hectare could be used as a measure of
productivity. (This is covered off by the above indicator on stocking and
regeneration).
 S. Dolter – Could you use a keystone species to measure productivity?
 M. Churchill – You can set a target, but how will you measure it?
 K. Saunders – We will record BAP as an indicator that we intend to use in the
future. We could even use progress towards completion of BAP as an indicator if we
want.
 S. Dolter – Explained how Millar Western in Alberta uses BAP with 29 wildlife
species. Harvesting scenarios are entered into the model and the computer will then
tell you the predicted effects of that harvesting on each of the 29 wildlife species.
Item 6: Criterion 3 – Conservation of Soil and Water Resources – K. Saunders
 Reviewed Values and Objectives and discussed suggested indicators.
 Element 3.1 – Soil Quantity and Quality – Area of ground disturbed on cutovers.
(This indicator comes form the ISO system).
ACTION ITEM 5: Collect current data for Indicator 3.1.1 – Area of ground disturbed on
cutovers.
 Element 3.1 – Soil Quantity and Quality – Amount of area lost due to permanent
roads and structures.
ACTION ITEM 6: Collect current data for Indicator 3.1 2 – Amount of area lost due to
permanent roads and landings. (Not a priority. This indicator may be altered in the future to
include more than just roads and landings).
 W. Brown – Described ground disturbance survey procedures. Measure the
amount of hectares of disturbed ground in each harvested area. Qualitative
indicators are not measured due to it not being practical (too subjective). These
include things like depth of rutting, degree of compaction, etc. Exposed mineral
soil could be considered good or bad depending on the situation.
 The road indicator was debated. Some could not see the relationship to soil. Roads
do take productive soil out of the landbase. They can also be the cause of increased
soil erosion and water diversion. We agreed to leave this indicator here because it
is important. We may choose to use it somewhere else instead (like under Criterion
4 – Contributions to Global Ecological Cycles).
 Element 3.2 – Water Quality and Quantity – Water quantity indicator not
completed.
 Large discussion surrounding water quantity. We can calculate the amount of each
watershed harvested, but how can we tell whether it’s having an effect on water
quantity. There are too many other factors (rain, snow-melt, etc.). S. Dolter and T.
Philpott suggested Environment Canada water flow data.
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 E. Anstey – Asked whether there are different harvesting standards for municipal
water supplies.
 K. Saunders – There are two sets of guidelines for harvesting. One is specific to
municipal water supplies.
 L. Daye – More information on watersheds is required. Could we use amount of
human resources assigned to measuring water quantity as an indicator?
 Indicators could relate to things like human resources. The problem would be how
we are going to measure water quantity and isolate the effects of harvesting from all
the other possible effects.
 M. Churchill – Suggested that indicator be progress towards accurate measuring
and monitoring of water quantity.
 Couldn’t agree on an indicator. Decided we needed more information.
ACTION ITEM 7: Karen to research available data on water quantity and the locations of
such data within the DFA. Approach Annette Tobin who is conducting research on water quality
index. See if there are plans to measure water quantity.
 Element 3.2 – Water Quality and Quantity – Results of water sampling performed
during bridge construction.
ACTION ITEM 8: Collect current data for Indicator 3.2.1 – Results of water sampling
performed during bridge construction.
 Element 3.2 – Number of reported incidents of siltation and fuel and/or oil spills
near water as reported in ISO environmental incident reports.
ACTION ITEM 9: Collect current data for Indicator 3.2.2 – Number of reported incidents of
siltation and fuel and/or oil spills near water as reported in ISO environmental incident reports.
 Element 3.2 – Results of Corner Brook Stream water quality sampling program.
ACTION ITEM 10: Collect current data for Indicator 3.2.3 – Results of water quality
sampling program on Corner Brook Stream.
 S. Dolter – Suggested using data from stream crossing inventory. Age of culverts
for example.
 M. Churchill – The system is in place but there is no man-power to go out and
measure or inspect every culvert just because it’s old.
 S. Dolter – Should be able to devise a workable indicator out of that inventory.
 P. Tompkins – Suggested possible indicator – Percentage of new culverts entered
into the database. This will ensure that it is kept up-to-date.
 This issue was left hanging, although since there is good data available, it would be
a logical place to look for an acceptable indicator.
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ACTION ITEM 11: Investigate indicator possibilities associated with stream crossing
inventory.
 B. Ball – Questioned Corner Brook Stream data and whether this data exists for
other communities.
 M. Churchill – Currently, only CB Stream is being measured. It has been
measured for over 20 years. The province measure water quality for municipalities,
however, they measure from the tap not the source like we do for CB Stream.
 E. Anstey – Suggested contacting Paul Barnable (Water Resources, DOE) to
inquire about what type of sampling is carried out in municipalities.
ACTION ITEM 12 – Contact Paul Barnable and find out what type of sampling is carried
out in municipalities.
 L. Hounsell – Questioned whether buffer zones could be used as an indicator.
 S. Dolter – Buffer zones are currently legislated requirements. They are thus
already being taken care of.
Item #7 – Presentation on Operations (Matt Churchill)
 See attached.
 Mechanization is being fazed in. As conventional chainsaw loggers retire, they are
replaced by mechanized operations. Cable logging is one of the few logging
methods that requires chainsaw.
 Buffer Zones are currently not harvested. A 20-meter buffer refers to a treed
buffer. (NL is the only province that does not currently permit harvest in buffer).
 C. Hodinott – Pointed out that Crown operators could greatly benefit from ISO
system.
Item #8 - Criterion #4 – Forest Ecosystem Contribution to Global Ecological Cycles
 Defined terms and identified values and objectives.
 Element 4.1 – Carbon Uptake and Storage. Value – Total Ecosystem Carbon.
Objective – to be discussed when more information is available.
 CFS is doing research on carbon as is model forest.
ACTION ITEM 13 – Contact Martin Moroni of CFS to get advice and information on
current carbon-related research. S. Dolter will be attending a carbon workshop next month. He
will report back with results of workshop.
 Element 4.2 – Forest Land Conversion – Value: Forested Area. Objective: To
maintain forested area.
 T. Philpott – Expressed concern over roads with respect to land conversion. Will
expand on this in future meetings. Not against all roads, however, believes that
there are circumstances that may justify the de-commissioning of roads for the
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protection of values that would be degraded with increased access.
Item #9 - Criterion #5 – Multiple Benefits to Society
 Element 5.1 – Timber and Non-timber Values – Values: Timber benefits and nontimber benefits. Objectives: To maintain timber benefits. To maintain nontimber benefits.
 Element 5.2 – Communities and Sustainability – Value: long-term viability of
forest-based communities. Objective: To maintain the long-term viability of
forest-based communities.
 B. Ball – What is the definition of a forest-based community.
ACTION ITEM 14: Research census and their categorization of communities.
 For indicator profile, must come up with consensus on definition of forest-based
community.
 Element 5.3 – Fair Distribution of Benefits and Costs. Value: Many suggested
including exchanges with lumber producers, domestic firewood, etc.
 T. Philpott – Requested layout of CBPPL tax structure.
ACTION ITEM 15 – Provide Committee with description of CBPPL tax structure.
ACTION ITEM 16 – Identify one special place for addition to the list for Indicator 1.4.1.
We never made it to Item #10 or #11.
ACTION ITEM 17 – Homework:
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****Read the Indicator Profiles Criterion 1. This is the current data we will be using to
develop targets and acceptable levels of variation.******
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Think of indicators for Criteria 4 & 5.
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We will be gathering data for indicators for Criteria 2 & 3.
Next Meeting: June 4, 2003 at the Royal Canadian Legion.
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Notes Regarding Genetic Diversity
(from W. Brown’s conversation with W. Kelly of the DFRA)
1. Conventional tree breeding practices do not conflict with the guiding principles for
genetic diversity as set out by the CCFM.
2. There is no program in Newfoundland to replace, alter or add genes in our seedlings
E.g. bT
3. Less than 2% of our tree nursery output is from seed orchard stock – the rest is from
wild seed sources.
4. Province has 3 seed collection zones – Labrador, Northern Peninsula, and Main
Island. Out planted seedlings are generally grown from seed within the same seed
zone.
5. There is nothing inherently wrong with planting trees in areas with seed from another
zone. E.g. Main Island outperforms Northern Peninsula sources when planted on the
Northern Peninsula. This is thought to actually improve the gene pool. Quite often,
areas display genetic depression from inbreeding.
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