Columbia Basin Watershed Network

Meeting IntroductionSpring CBWN Member Meeting

May 25, 2015Lakeside Prestige Resort, Nelson

10:30 Welcome to the territory 10: 35 Columbia Basin Watershed Network

Welcome 10:45 Columbia Wetlands Waterbird Survey 11:15 Kootenay Lake Wetlands Restoration 11:45 Columbia Basin Watershed Network Update Noon Lunch 1:00 Group updates 1:30 Watershed café discussions 2:45 Watershed café reporting 3:25 Closing comments

Columbia Basin Watershed NetworkSpring Meeting Agenda

Welcome Everyone

The CBWN supports a water stewardship ethic by sharing knowledge, building skills and facilitating community action

Strives to ensure that local water groups have the resources and knowledge they need to address their watershed priorities and concerns

Builds capacity through education and training Provides face-to-face opportunities for members to

network with peers and experts Connects members to scientific and technical expertise

What does the Columbia Basin Watershed Network do?

•Network = “a group or system of interconnected people or things”, including water groups, communities, NGOs, public agencies, local government, First Nations, citizens, academic institutions, and private sectors across the Canadian portion of the Columbia River Basin

We support watershed stewardship groups

We are a Network

Continuing Heather Leschied, Living Lakes Canada Lee-Anne Walker, Elk River Alliance Richard Johnson, Slocan Lake Research Centre Liaison Claire de la Salle, Friends of Kootenay Lake Jim Duncan, Mainstreams New Bill Thompson, Columbia Lake Stewardship Society Lauren Rethoret, Rural Development Institute Casey Brennan, Teck Bonnie Harvey, Ktunaxa Nation ?aq’am

Past Members, Outgoing in 2014-2015 Ryan Van der Marel, Kootenay Lake Partnership Douglas Kittle, Retired Physician

Current Steering Committee

Share information about successful projects Provide opportunities to network Share information about water issues in the

Basin

Provide members and the CBWN with a chance to set shared priorities and identify opportunities for collaboration

Purpose of this Meeting

10:30 Welcome to the territory, Bonnie Harvey, Ktunaxa Nation ?aq’am

10: 35 Columbia Basin Watershed Network Welcome 10:45 Columbia Wetlands Waterbird Survey 11:15 Kootenay Lake Wetlands Restoration 11:45 Columbia Basin Watershed Network Update Noon Lunch 1:00 Group updates 1:30 Watershed café discussions 2:45 Watershed café reporting 3:25 Closing comments

Columbia Basin Watershed NetworkSpring Meeting Agenda

Columbia Basin Watershed NetworkUpdate

Spring CBWN Member MeetingMay 25, 2015

Lakeside Prestige Resort, Nelson

Masters and PhD in Community and Environmental Planning Experience as professor, adult educator, researcher Consulting and research experience in strategic planning,

participatory and policy narratives How do we tell our stories so we can act together better?

As your Coordinator: building connections, and organizing activities that meet member needs and have good outcomes for member groups

Your New CoordinatorTara Lynne Clapp

What we heard last year Survey Results Member Benefits in 2015 Review of activities so far

Outline

Past Member ‘wants’ Small group assistance: GPS instruction, technical skills, grant

finding and writing, nonprofit administration Technical training: Dialogue with local colleges, offer water

monitoring, CABIN, Streamkeepers Connecting groups with expertise Work to assist in creating credible citizen science and in

communicating credibility of that science Conduit of information for water issues in the Basin Networking opportunities – help us make our own connections

Some member wants require us to increase diversity in funding:

Water governance: support, continue discussions, understand Water Sustainability Act, influence governance, push for reform

Media assistance: telling the data story and media release

Bringing Issues Forward

•Training, support, educational resources (e.g. Winter Webinar Series)

•Access to technical and scientific resources (e.g. Mapping Program in partnership with Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre)

•Opportunities for networking with other watershed groups working in the Columbia Basin (e.g. Think Like a Watershed Symposium and Spring and Fall Member Meetings)

•Access and information about water related events, resources, funding and jobs (e.g. monthly newsletter, grants database)

Watershed governance education

2014 Activities

Purpose: to help set program priorities 94 responses over two versions (early and late) Later version responded to CBT request for

CBWN not to pursue watershed governance with CBT funding at this time

Early survey conforms with 2014, 2013 results, that watershed governance is a priority, about half say that CBWN should be working on it, (same as mapping and networking)

Survey for 2015

Do same or MORE: MORE face to face networking opportunities MORE workshops and training MORE support for individual groups with

their projects

Do LESS: Webinars, teleconference, social media

Survey Results

Mapping Program: Six groups will receive assistance with mapping projects over the summer

Friends of Kootenay Lake: watershed education base maps Wildsight Golden: Waterbird Survey mapping Living Lakes Canada: Stream health / watershed use Rossland Streamkeepers: base mapping for research Eastshore Freshwater Habitat: base map and use of GIS

data for rapid stream assessment for spawning potential SWAMP Slocan Wetlands Assessment and Monitoring: use of

remote sensing data for wetland type identification

2015 Programming and Events:Mapping

Offering subsidies for CABIN Training: Tuition plus mileage

Golden (August or Nelson To members of groups that are monitoring

water quality or likely to start a program within a year

Applications now available, (paper) at front table or (fillable) by email to tara@cbwn.ca, or at website, cbwn.ca

2015 CABIN Training Subsidies

Watershed management planning ... Working with the local community / local government

Nonprofit governance and administration … hope to link to existing courses, might be better to do as advising

Mentoring program …watershed program to watershed program

Summer/FallWorkshops and Training

Top themes are: Climate change and water stewardship Holistic / collaborative watershed

management

And potentially something from today’s work

Fall Meeting

Lunch and After