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Upper Athabasca Healthy Landscape Project
February 11, 2010
The first of four partnership workshops for the Upper Athabasca Healthy Landscape Project (part of the new Healthy Landscape Program) took place in Edmonton on February 3rd, 2010. Representatives from over 30 different forestry and energy companies as well as government agencies were invited to jointly develop, evaluate, and compare several "healthy" landscape policy and planning scenarios.
The process being employed is innovative, requiring teams of five or six people to design (rather than plan) using a series of natural range of variation (NRV) indicators as input, leaving the more traditional values such as wood, recreation, and habitat supply as outputs. The project will be completed this summer, and the results and output handed over to the Upper Athabasca Land Use team.
Stay tuned to future eNotes for more information on this project and upcoming workshops.
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