5. Water management

- Develop a communications theme between valley residents, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, DFO and the Band to address naturalization of flow regimes as required to maintain ecosystem values, flood control and water needs;

- Establish a community-based water monitoring program considering flow regimes, temperature and other quality values including bedload movement sediment loading, dissolved nutrient content and in stream biological composition.

- Report on cause and effect relationships associated with land and resource use in the valley and water management priorities of the valley residents.

- Work towards establishing larger/wider, more comprehensive riparian reserve and management zones on all riparian features.

- Strive for alternatives to current forest management practices within these riparian management zones.

- Develop, in collaboration with D.F.O., best management practices for riparian zones that will begin to address sedimentation, water temperatures, wildlife habitat and movement corridor needs, and traditional riparian vegetation.

6. Contributing traditional and local knowledge and practices into sustainable use practices

- Extend the Band jurisdiction to watershed to protect ecosystem values and related cultural and sustainable resource use practices;

- Utilize the 1998 Traditional Heritage Conservation Law to advance understanding and values associated with cultural practices in development planning, resource protection and authorization;

- Continue efforts to document traditional language, innovations and practices associated with sustainable resource use practices and broader ecosystem values;

- Encourage incorporation of new locally developed knowledge, innovations and practices where they are relevant to the sustainable use of the valley’s natural resources.