Skeena Salmon Habitat Conference

September 15-16,

2009

Smithers, BC

General information

Kirsteen Laing

info@bvcentre.ca

250-847-2827

Conference Coordinator

Jilll Dunbar

In collaboration with:

Skeena Fisheries

Commission

Department of Fisheries & Oceans

Integrated Land Management Bureau

Ministry of Forests & Range

Buri, Overstall

Speaker Abstracts and PowerPoint Presentations

Conference Contact List

POST CONFERENCE NEWS RELEASE

The major themes for the conference will be:

1. Institutional reform towards collaborative management;
   
2. Collaborative experiences in the Skeena / North Coast; and
   
3. Challenges and opportunities for Skeena salmon habitat.

Registration for the conference includes:

• a conference package (with your choice to be paperless).
  In keeping with the Centre’s mandate for sustainability, the Skeena Salmon Habitat Conference package will be available in both a hardcopy format and paperless option. Anyone choosing the paperless option will receive a memory key with conference abstracts and schedule — everything included in our usual conference folders, without all the paper — and will be required to bring a laptop to access their package digitally. Please help us to make this our most sustainable conference yet!;
  
  
• access to all presentations;
  
  
• refreshments and two lunches;
  
  
• one dinner and poster session (with cash bar); and
  
  
• conference proceedings (on-line two months after the conference).
  

Among the speakers:

• The Honourable John A. Fraser, P.C., O.C., O.B.C., C.D., Q.C., LL.D. (Hon.)
• Brian Riddell, Ph.D, Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans, Nanaimo, B.C.
• Jon O'Riordan, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC
• John Reynolds, Ph.D, Department of Biological Sciences, SFU
• Jack Stanford, Ph.D, Flathead Lake Biological Station, U Montana

Final Conference Agenda

Conference Venue:

Hudson Bay Lodge

Smithers, BC

Map of Smithers