Thank you to everyone who attended BC PARF 20221
Most recordings are now available on our legacy site at cpcil.ca/bcparf
Check out the full schedule for the 2022 conference including all presenters and session titles here.
Monday December 12th
Workshop - Building 250 Room 105
Exploring Intersections of Park Accessibility and Park Crowding
Host: Hannah Dudney from Vancouver Island University
Time: 2:00 to 4:00 pm
Max 20 People
Full
Welcome and Reception - Malaspina Theatre, VIU
Come to sign in for the conference and begin socializing. There will be a reception with food and a cash bar. Last minute conference registrations can also be done at this time.
6:00 pm: Conference check-in with reception and food with cash bar
7:00 pm: Keynote presentation - Watch live
Keynote Presentation
The Klinse-Za Caribou Herd and Protected Areas
Naomi Owens-Beek
Learn how the West Moberly and Saulteau First Nations have worked to bring the Klinse-Za Caribou herd back from the brink of extinction. Through collaboration, science, and commitment, their efforts have also lead to the creation of new protected areas in BC.
Included as part of your BC PARF registration. Or you can attend the keynote only - find the free registration on EventBrite
The keynote presentation will be recorded and live streamed.
Tuesday December 13th
Plenary Panel - Malaspina Theatre, VIU
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Including Inclusion: A Panel Discussion - Watch Live
8:30 to 10:00 am
Inclusion, access, equity, and diversity are core values and practical lenses that can positively impact parks and protected areas research and decision-making. Too often, though, the inclusion of diverse people and perspectives is either relegated to the fringe of our work or becomes the burden of those seeking to be included. This plenary session will uplift four projects that show what it can look like when inclusion, equity, and access factor into collaboration, visitor use management, workforce development, and online media, respectively. Panelists will spark a dialogue and challenge us all to integrate inclusion in parks and protected areas research and practice.
Moderator: Dr. Don Carruthers Den Hoed, Canadian, Parks, Protected and Conserved Areas Leadership Collective (CPPCL)
Panelists:
This plenary panel will be recorded and live streamed.
Break
Concurrent Sessions - Set 1
10:30 am to 12:15 pm
Session 1: Symposium of studies funded by BC Parks Living Lab program [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Stephen Ban
Location: B250 R120
Session 2: Finding Refugia [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Adam Linnard
Location: B250 R125
Session 3: Community Science [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: TBC
Location: B210 R275
Session 4: Tourism [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Nicolisa Blatchford
Location: B250 R210
Session 5: Regional Park Management [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Danika Medinski
Location: B210 R105
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 13, 10:30 am to 12:15 pm
Lunch
Concurrent Sessions - Set 2
1:30 to 3:45 pm
Session 6: Symposium of studies funded by BC Parks Living Lab program [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: James Quayle
Location: B250 R120
Session 7: Human Dimensions [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: David Ranson
Location: B210 R105
Session 8: Conservation Case Studies [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Kirk Safford
Location: B250 R105
Session 9: Recreation & Wildlife [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Nicolisa Blatchford
Location: B250 R205
Session 10: Protected Areas Management [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Tim Burkhart
Location: B210 R110
Break - B250 3rd Floor Exchange
Reception and poster session
Hosted by the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative - Nanaimo Museum
6:00 to 9:00 pm
Food and drink service from 6:30 to 8:15
List of posters (See the poster abstracts here):
Catherine Jacobsen: BC Parks West Coast Region Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
Jamie Clarke: Density estimation using camera traps: what is possible? (poster pdf)
Madeleine Wrazej: Non-Invasive Sampling to Assess Impacts of Recreation on Mountain Goats in Banff and Yoho National Parks (poster pdf)
Moe Nadeau: Exploring Ethical Space for land use planning in the Upper Columbia region of British Columbia (poster pdf)
Morgan Davies: Innovative approaches to mitigating ecological impacts: a restorative justice case study
Mu He: Recreation’s impact on river conservation behaviors (poster pdf)
Pierre Vernier: Designing Conservation Areas for Biodiversity Persistence
Rebecca Smith: Looking at the big picture: using wildlife camera traps to understand the impacts of human
disturbances on large mammals in and around Canada’s Mountain National Parks
Tyler Chai and Allen Zhao: Responses to warming of alpine plants: above-ground phenology and greenness in the Nch’kay region (Garibaldi Provincial Park)
Wednesday, December 14th
Plenary Panel - Malaspina Theatre, VIU
Knowledge Mobilization in Parks and Protected Areas: What knowledge, whose knowledge, and how to close knowledge-action gaps. - Watch Live
8:30 to 10:00 am
Knowledge created and co-created to support decision making in parks and protected areas has been a topic for some time. Unfortunately, there is still a gap between knowledge and action. This knowledge mobilization gap is apparent to many academic researchers, but substantial gaps also occur between decision makers and two other types of knowledge holders: Indigenous Peoples and other local knowledge holders. This plenary session brings together research from five distinct Canadian case study sites (Tofino-Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve; Bruce Peninsula; Pinery Provincial Park; Kananaskis Valley; Beaver Hills Biosphere Reserve). Our team of researchers, practitioners, and community members will present an overview of outcomes from each case study and lead an interactive discussion with all attendees related to the production, movement, value, and use of various forms of knowledge in parks and protected areas.
Moderator: Dr. Rob Ferguson, Vancouver Island University
Panelists: Clara-Jane Blye (PhD Candidate, University of Alberta/Dalhousie University), Dr. Don Carruthers Den Hoed (University of British Columbia), Terry Dorward (Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks), Dr. Elizabeth Halpenny (University of Alberta), Dr. Glen Hvenegaard, University of Alberta), Michelle Murphy (PhD Student, University of Alberta), Dr. Rick Rollins (Vancouver Island University)
This plenary panel will be recorded and live streamed.
Break
Concurrent sessions - Set 3
10:30 am to 12: 15 pm
Session 11: Inventory, monitoring and modelling [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Libby Ehlers
Location: B250 R210
Session 12: Focus on People [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Craig Paulson
Location: B250 R205
Session 13: Conservation Planning in IPCAs [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Tim Burkhart
Location: B210 R275
Session 14: Mammals and Movement [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Melanie Percy
Location: B250 R125
Lunch - VIU Upper Cafeteria B300
Workshop - Coast Bastion Hotel
Improving monitoring of protected area effectiveness for terrestrial mammals using camera traps.
Host: Dr. Cole Burton, University of British Columbia
Time: 3:00 to 5:30 pm
Max 35 People
Full
Most recordings are now available on our legacy site at cpcil.ca/bcparf
Check out the full schedule for the 2022 conference including all presenters and session titles here.
Monday December 12th
Workshop - Building 250 Room 105
Exploring Intersections of Park Accessibility and Park Crowding
Host: Hannah Dudney from Vancouver Island University
Time: 2:00 to 4:00 pm
Max 20 People
Full
Welcome and Reception - Malaspina Theatre, VIU
Come to sign in for the conference and begin socializing. There will be a reception with food and a cash bar. Last minute conference registrations can also be done at this time.
6:00 pm: Conference check-in with reception and food with cash bar
7:00 pm: Keynote presentation - Watch live
Keynote Presentation
The Klinse-Za Caribou Herd and Protected Areas
Naomi Owens-Beek
Learn how the West Moberly and Saulteau First Nations have worked to bring the Klinse-Za Caribou herd back from the brink of extinction. Through collaboration, science, and commitment, their efforts have also lead to the creation of new protected areas in BC.
Included as part of your BC PARF registration. Or you can attend the keynote only - find the free registration on EventBrite
The keynote presentation will be recorded and live streamed.
Tuesday December 13th
Plenary Panel - Malaspina Theatre, VIU
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Including Inclusion: A Panel Discussion - Watch Live
8:30 to 10:00 am
Inclusion, access, equity, and diversity are core values and practical lenses that can positively impact parks and protected areas research and decision-making. Too often, though, the inclusion of diverse people and perspectives is either relegated to the fringe of our work or becomes the burden of those seeking to be included. This plenary session will uplift four projects that show what it can look like when inclusion, equity, and access factor into collaboration, visitor use management, workforce development, and online media, respectively. Panelists will spark a dialogue and challenge us all to integrate inclusion in parks and protected areas research and practice.
Moderator: Dr. Don Carruthers Den Hoed, Canadian, Parks, Protected and Conserved Areas Leadership Collective (CPPCL)
Panelists:
- Natasha Ewing and Mark Groulx: Beyond barriers - Knowledge co-production as a solution for designing accessible and inclusive parks in northern BC (collaboration)
- Neha Dewan: Barriers and facilitators of National Park accessibility for people with disabilities: A scoping review of YouTube videos (online media)
- Hannah Dudney: Is park crowding more than an inconvenience? Experiences of people with mobility disabilities in crowded parks (visitor use management)
- Ebany Carratt: Research and Action to Advance equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Decolonization (EDID) in Protected Areas Research and Management (workforce development)
This plenary panel will be recorded and live streamed.
Break
Concurrent Sessions - Set 1
10:30 am to 12:15 pm
Session 1: Symposium of studies funded by BC Parks Living Lab program [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Stephen Ban
Location: B250 R120
- Brenda Beckwith - Building climate resilient butterfly habitat, year 2
- Cassandra Elphinstone - The influence of climate change and increased recreation on alpine plants in the Nch'kay region (Garibaldi Provincial Park).
- Courtney Mason & Carmen Massey - Sewecpemc perspectives of climate change and resiliency in Tsutswecw Provincial Park.
- Carly Hilbert - Alpine plant responses to increases human trampling disturbance in the Nch'kay region (Garibaldi Provincial Park).
Session 2: Finding Refugia [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Adam Linnard
Location: B250 R125
- Gabe Schepens - Synthesizing habitat models for wolverine (Gulo gulo): Identifying snow refugia in a changing climate
- Christine Kuntzman - Predicting fire refugia across the Thompson Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada
- Jessica Stolar - Using climate-change refugia and corridors to inform multi-scale conservation planning
Session 3: Community Science [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: TBC
Location: B210 R275
- Brian Starzomski - The BC Parks iNaturalist Project: community science across 1035 protected areas
- Ellyne Geurts - Turning observations into biodiversity data: Spatial biases in community science in British Columbia
- Tse-Lyn Loh - Harnessing the power of community science for protected area monitoring
- Natasha Ewing - Meaningful Student Learning – Participating in BC Parks’ Squirrel LTEM
Session 4: Tourism [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Nicolisa Blatchford
Location: B250 R210
- Yihang Zhang - Oil & Vinegar? Exploring relationships between nature-based tourism and virtual experiences in the UNESCO Global Geopark in Tumbler Ridge, BC
- Joe Pavelka - Tourism & Parks: What's the Problem?
- Brooklyn Rushton - Gaining Insight on the Most Challenging Expedition: Climate Change from the Perspective of Canadian Mountain Guides
- Elizabeth Halpenny - Effective environmental communications in nature-based tourism contexts
Session 5: Regional Park Management [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Danika Medinski
Location: B210 R105
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 13, 10:30 am to 12:15 pm
- Lynn Wilson - Growing a world-class regional park system – the CRD’s Land Acquisition Fund
- Emma Taylor - Evolution of the CRD’s regional trail network
- Todd Shannon - Developing community partnerships to manage mountain biking within regional parks
- Sarah Forbes - Regional parks' sustainable service delivery
Lunch
Concurrent Sessions - Set 2
1:30 to 3:45 pm
Session 6: Symposium of studies funded by BC Parks Living Lab program [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: James Quayle
Location: B250 R120
- Lauren Erland - Wildfire impacts on endemic Okanagan plants
- Matthew Csordas - Assessing the distribution of critical blue carbon habitats within the coastal waters of BC Parks around Vancouver Island in the context of climate change
- Sara Mynott - Managing for future change: identifying climate vulnerability, resilience and management options in parks with a marine component
- Stefano Mezzini - How climate change will shape the future of human wildlife conflict in B.C.’s protected areas
- Courtney Collins - Below ground impacts of experimental warming and summer flooding within alpine plant communities in the Nch’kay region (Garibaldi Provincial Park)
Session 7: Human Dimensions [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: David Ranson
Location: B210 R105
- Devin Holterman - Managing for future change: identifying climate vulnerability, resilience and management options in parks with a marine component.
- Jorden Dye - We Don’t Talk About Finance: The Overlooked Tool in Protected Areas Sustainability.
- Rod Davis - BC Elders Council for Parks Dialogues on Protected Areas and Climate Change – What We Heard and Mapping a Path Forward
- Farhad Moghimefar & Hannah Dudney - Pro-environmental behaviour in The Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region, BC, Canada: Motivations, emotions, and ecological worldviews.
- Dayna Weststrate - How climate change and population growth will interact to shape the future of attendance at BC Parks
Session 8: Conservation Case Studies [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Kirk Safford
Location: B250 R105
- Erica McClaren - BC Parks and Gabriola Land and Trails Trust Collaborative Restoration Actions in a Garry oak ecological community in Drumbeg Provincial Park
- Wayne Stetski - A Critical Piece in Yellowstone to Yukon - Conservation Options in the Elk and Flathead River Valleys
- Marc Edwards - Regional disturbance mapping in SE Yukon and applications to conservation planning
- Becky Edwards - Satellite-based wetland mapping to support Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area in northern British Columbia.
- Pierre Vernier - Applications of disturbance mapping to conservation planning
Session 9: Recreation & Wildlife [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Nicolisa Blatchford
Location: B250 R205
- Annie Pumphrey - Lessons from Kananaskis: Expert and visitor perceptions
- Kaitlyn Gaynor - The influence of recreation on animal movement in US National Parks
- Talia Vilalta Capdevila - Multiple spatial data sources improve mapping of recreation trails in eastern BC
- Annie Loosen - Who, what, when, where: Next-generation modeling to predict recreational use in eastern BC
- Kate Field - Applying risk-allocation theory to wildlife behaviour during non-consumptive ecotourism: Grizzly bear viewing in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, Nuxalk Territory
Session 10: Protected Areas Management [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Tim Burkhart
Location: B210 R110
- Steve Hodgson & Ernie Tallio - BC Parks Coastal Guardian Pilot
- Ethan Ward - Leading Canada's Parks System Through COVID-19
- Cameron Eckert - Connecting ecological integrity and cultural continuity at QikiqtarukHerschel Island Territorial Park, Yukon
- Chris Oberg - Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas Certificate – Building Capacity for Conservation Professionals in BC
- Megan Beveridge - BC Parks Green Plan – Living our Sustainable Vision
Break - B250 3rd Floor Exchange
Reception and poster session
Hosted by the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative - Nanaimo Museum
6:00 to 9:00 pm
Food and drink service from 6:30 to 8:15
List of posters (See the poster abstracts here):
Catherine Jacobsen: BC Parks West Coast Region Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
Jamie Clarke: Density estimation using camera traps: what is possible? (poster pdf)
Madeleine Wrazej: Non-Invasive Sampling to Assess Impacts of Recreation on Mountain Goats in Banff and Yoho National Parks (poster pdf)
Moe Nadeau: Exploring Ethical Space for land use planning in the Upper Columbia region of British Columbia (poster pdf)
Morgan Davies: Innovative approaches to mitigating ecological impacts: a restorative justice case study
Mu He: Recreation’s impact on river conservation behaviors (poster pdf)
Pierre Vernier: Designing Conservation Areas for Biodiversity Persistence
Rebecca Smith: Looking at the big picture: using wildlife camera traps to understand the impacts of human
disturbances on large mammals in and around Canada’s Mountain National Parks
Tyler Chai and Allen Zhao: Responses to warming of alpine plants: above-ground phenology and greenness in the Nch’kay region (Garibaldi Provincial Park)
Wednesday, December 14th
Plenary Panel - Malaspina Theatre, VIU
Knowledge Mobilization in Parks and Protected Areas: What knowledge, whose knowledge, and how to close knowledge-action gaps. - Watch Live
8:30 to 10:00 am
Knowledge created and co-created to support decision making in parks and protected areas has been a topic for some time. Unfortunately, there is still a gap between knowledge and action. This knowledge mobilization gap is apparent to many academic researchers, but substantial gaps also occur between decision makers and two other types of knowledge holders: Indigenous Peoples and other local knowledge holders. This plenary session brings together research from five distinct Canadian case study sites (Tofino-Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve; Bruce Peninsula; Pinery Provincial Park; Kananaskis Valley; Beaver Hills Biosphere Reserve). Our team of researchers, practitioners, and community members will present an overview of outcomes from each case study and lead an interactive discussion with all attendees related to the production, movement, value, and use of various forms of knowledge in parks and protected areas.
Moderator: Dr. Rob Ferguson, Vancouver Island University
Panelists: Clara-Jane Blye (PhD Candidate, University of Alberta/Dalhousie University), Dr. Don Carruthers Den Hoed (University of British Columbia), Terry Dorward (Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks), Dr. Elizabeth Halpenny (University of Alberta), Dr. Glen Hvenegaard, University of Alberta), Michelle Murphy (PhD Student, University of Alberta), Dr. Rick Rollins (Vancouver Island University)
This plenary panel will be recorded and live streamed.
Break
Concurrent sessions - Set 3
10:30 am to 12: 15 pm
Session 11: Inventory, monitoring and modelling [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Libby Ehlers
Location: B250 R210
- Mirjam Barrueto - Protection status, human disturbance, snow cover and trapping drive density of a declining wolverine population in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Jenny Heron - Native Bees of BC’s Parks and Protected Areas
- Siobhan Schenk - Long-term monitoring of algal biodiversity in Stanley Park.
Session 12: Focus on People [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Craig Paulson
Location: B250 R205
- Craig Paulson - People with mobility impairments accessing parks: exploring survey results
- Catherine Reining - The ‘Healthy Parks-Healthy People’ Movement in Canada: Progress, Challenges, and an Emerging Knowledge and Action Agenda
- Matthew Bowes - Westwood Ridge, Conflicting Place Meanings and Natural Resource Management
- Lane Arthur - A Three-pronged Approach for Identifying Quality of Life and Wellbeing Indicators in Park
- Alison Whiting - Improving accessibility of Canada's National Parks for people with disabilities
Session 13: Conservation Planning in IPCAs [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Tim Burkhart
Location: B210 R275
- Norm MacLean - Kaska’s Vision for the Land – Dene K’éh Kusān
- Sophia Graham - Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in Northwestern BC Parks: A Framework for Socially Responsible Environmental Planning and Management
- Christopher Morgan - Systematic Conservation Planning in Tsay Keh Dene Territory: Incorporating Climate Change and Interweaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Session 14: Mammals and Movement [Abstracts]
Session Moderator: Melanie Percy
Location: B250 R125
- Cheng Chen – Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity
- Jason Fisher – Wolverines: A synthesis of global conservation ecology research with a focus on the role of protected areas
- Ryan Gill – Movement ecology of southern mountain caribou in response to COVID-19 lockdowns
- Laura Eliuk – Protected areas best explain the occurrences of mammalian predator species in Canada’s Rocky Mountains
Lunch - VIU Upper Cafeteria B300
Workshop - Coast Bastion Hotel
Improving monitoring of protected area effectiveness for terrestrial mammals using camera traps.
Host: Dr. Cole Burton, University of British Columbia
Time: 3:00 to 5:30 pm
Max 35 People
Full