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Ugait nonsectem vullandrero dui Practical and Sustainable Watershed Management ea con et, sum quatetue molorting et dolum vel utem aciliquis nim ipsummy nostrud dolobore facidunt incipsustrud modipsum enit Five year management plan acipis dolor il dolorem iurer sum eu feugiatuer sequat vel ip eu fac and Ten year vision of Kelsey Conservation District cum dip euguero odip el do doloreratis ad modo. www.kelseyconservationdistrict.com Kelsey Conservation District Box 1464 The Pas, Manitoba Canada R9A 1L3 Phone: (204) 623-3353 Fax: (204) 623-4474 Email: [email protected] FIVE PATHS to WATERSHED MANAGEMENT FORWARD There are several paths to effective watershed management: The Board considered each in turn: • First, and perhaps most obvious, there is the ecological/ • Ecological and conservation based planning was not Managment Considerations conservation path where one would begin with a thorough only very expensive and technically complex, but it ecological and environmental baseline study attempting also required highly skilled and large teams of experts to determine the extent of man’s impact on the watershed, to monitor and measure and to implement technical and then to the task of putting together a Management programs to combat and control the ever changing Plan based on cleaning up and/or containing the effect ecological markers of the watershed. of that impact through the introduction of technical • Utilization based planning required not only ways to programs designed around sound conservation and control and seek cooperation from competing users, environmental protection principles. but also would require the Board to enter the arena • Second, there is the utilization path where one would of user lobbies, political and economic/conservation begin by exploring the potential of the watershed in terms force fi elding and resource management. of industrial/agricultural/fi shing/forestry (and perhaps • Regulatory based planning required not only a belatedly), tourism; and then to the task of putting together constant enforcement and changing of regulatory a Management Plan that is likely to be a series of choices practices largely inspired by watershed “crises,” but ecological / between competing interests based on balancing the enviromental would also require a regulatory mandate and the staff strongest user lobbies and the latest environmental path resource / user resources to enforce it. path concerns, and on translating that into “effective use” propositions acceptable to the greatest number. • Compromise based planning was felt to be largely a political process and not one where the District would • Third, there is the regulatory path where one would have the skill, infl uence or energy to design plans that begin by responding to the latest concerns from the would minimize confl icts between user groups. most powerful group concerned with watershed use and then put together a plan that is concerned with The Board’s considerations led to two main conclusions; regulatory controlling the impacts of the least powerful user groups the fi rst, that all of these paths were already the respon- path and fi nding public acceptance for those new regulations sibility of existing government agencies; and second, the that appear to minimize the impacts of the more powerful Conservation District mandate was not to take over the user groups on the watershed’s environment. existing responsibilities of other agencies, but rather to promote the involvement of watershed residents in the • Fourth, there is the compromise path where one would management of their section of the watershed. begin by recognizing all the competing forces at play in watershed use and then design an “appeasement plan” As a result, this Management Plan is not based on any based on something for every interest, but not much of the four paths to watershed management planning, of an overall interest for the watershed itself. but rather on a fi fth path, the path of public education and resident ownership. When Kelsey Conservation District Board worked its compromise way through all of these propositions and complexities For as the Board had reasoned out, plans do not make path it was struck by two things: fi rst, the overall enormity things the way they are; people make things the way they public of the challenges, and second, the amount of resources are, and that therefore the path to the District’s mission education and infl uence it had to do something about them. of practical and sustainable watershed management is path not through technical, utilization, regulatory or compromise planning, but through the education and empowerment of the people about these things. contents: BOARD OF DIRECTORS Kathy Joyal Chair, Ralls Island Foreword .............................................................1 Kathy Joyal is a long-time resident of Ralls Island in the Rural Municipal- Board of Directors ................................................ 3 ity of Kelsey. Formerly a driving school operator/instructor, Kathy is now A Message From the Chair ....................................... 4 employed by a medical clinic in The Pas. She enjoys country dwelling and A Message From the District Manager ......................... 5 has an interest in birds, wildlife and environmental issues. chapter one A Brief History of the Watershed ................................ 6 Dan Davie Director, Wanless chapter two chapter three Dan Davie is a Councillor for the Rural Municipality of Kelsey. He has The Planning Process: A Prelude to Planning ............... 10 The Management Plan ........................................16 been active in municipal government for many years and is a resident of Mission ........................................................ 12 Wanless, Manitoba. A former restaurant/resort owner by occupation, a Key Result Area: Water ........................................17 Key Result Areas ............................................. 12 musician by choice, Dan has a keen interest in the environment and in Water Profiling ............................................17 Vision .......................................................... 12 Manure Management ....................................17 community affairs. Ownership .................................................... 12 Swath Grazing .............................................17 Consultation ................................................. 13 Rotational Winter Feeding .............................18 Planning for Operations ................................... 13 Darwin Marshall Abandoned Wells .........................................18 Resource Inventory Plan: A Companion Document . 15 Director, Carrot Valley East Exclusion Fencing and Alternate Watering ..........18 Riparian ....................................................18 Darwin Marshall, Provincial Appointee to Kelsey Conservation District Board of Directors, was born and raised in The Pas, Manitoba. He served Key Result Area: Soil ..........................................18 in the Navy during the 1980s and is now a trailer park owner/operator in Saline Soil Program ......................................18 the Rural Municipality of Kelsey. Darwin has a particular interest in new Zero Till Program ........................................19 technology products and local community affairs. Tree Planting Program ..................................19 Waste Disposal Site Program ...........................19 Composting Program ....................................19 Larry King Soil Testing Program ....................................19 Director, Carrot Valley West chapter four Key Result Area: Fish and Wildlife .........................20 Larry King resides in the Carrot Valley and served as Rural Municipality of Fish Stocks Program .....................................20 Kelsey Councillor in the 1990s. Formerly an automotive/science teacher Future Considerations ...........................................24 Nest Box Education Program ..........................20 in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, now a grain farmer, Larry is an avid observer of Source Protection ...........................................25 Beaver Dam Program ....................................20 current affairs. He also provides a home for Kelsey Conservation’s Demon- Air Pollution .................................................26 stration Plot on his country acreage. Promoting Proactive Stewardship ........................26 Key Result Area: Tourism ....................................22 Working With Others .......................................27 Eco-tourism Program ...................................22 Pasquia River Re-Habilitation Program ................27 Key Result Area: Public Education .........................23 David Cupples Organic Farming ............................................27 The Summer Tour Program ...........................23 Director, Cranberry The Promotions Program ..............................23 Dave Cupples was born and raised in Cranberry Portage, Manitoba and is a returned “lifer” to that community. He served on both Rural Municipality Epilogue ............................................................29 of Kelsey Council and the Cranberry Local Urban District (LUD) Commit- Appendices ........................................................ 30 tee during the 1990s. Formerly a tourist campground owner/operator

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