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Colette Spagnuolo, Panel Manager 160 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON K1A OH3 McCrory Wildlife Services Ltd. Box 479, New Denver, British Columbia V0G 1S0 Phone: 250-358-7796; e-mail: mccrorywildlife@netidea.com April 16, 2010 Re: Technical Review of EIS on Proposed Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine: "Terrestrial Ecosystems" Dear Ms Spagnuolo: Please find attached my technical review. As some information was not available for my review, please be advised that I will be making some revisions to this document prior to the end-April submission in Williams Lake. Sincerely, Wayne P. McCrory, RPBio. Cc.
AN INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF THE TERRESTRIAL WILDLIFE IMPACTS OF THE PROPOSED PROSPERITY MINE April 16, 2010 Draft Wayne P. McCrory, RPBio McCrory Wildlife Services Box 479, New Denver, British Columbia, V0G 1S0 Phone (250) 358-7796 email:mccrorywildife@netidea.com mccrorywildlife@netidea.com
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2010 Xeni Gwet’in Community‐bas
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS
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These longer‐term impacts could w
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Adaptation to climate change is typ
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5. Develop a realistic and practica
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Conclusions concerning the impact o
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Awareness raising and capacity buil
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3.2. Geography The study area is lo
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The XGCA is a remote, wilderness ar
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Figure 3: XGCA BEC Zones 14
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station closest to the Study Area w
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• Overall: Winter weather has got
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Source: Theo Mlynowski, UNBC Precip
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Figure 7: Comparison of Mean Annual
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Gwet’in Territory. It should be n
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Glaciers 28 Like snowmelt, glaciers
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Table 7: Research studies ongoing i
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interation under different scenario
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elatively uniform climate are calle
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Box 2: The importance of curre nt a
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Box 3: Forest Fire Hazard in the XG
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will likely be scattered Douglas‐
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• Effects of climate change: Kinn
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• Whitebark Pine: Of the two tree
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This section provides a summary of
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Past climate changes and their impa
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Projected Climate Changes and Impac
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system. They are relatively healthy
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6.2. Health and Safety At present,
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The Xeni Gwet’in depend on a vari
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obligated to finance these repairs
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the ecosystem may experience over t
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they traditionally have as well as
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• Dam and store water at Abelache
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8.3. Water Supply Protection and Co
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so no further elaboration is requir
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• Re‐introduce fire and allow n
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Biodiversity Protection and Conserv
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Preserve Wild Plants & the Habitats
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Water Supply Protection and Conserv
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Increase Preservation of Wild and C
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Adaptation Objective Develop Nature
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Adaptation Strategies into Local Go
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Ecolibrio (2009). Xeni Gwet’in Co
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Nelitz³, M. and M. Porter. 2009c.
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ANNEXES - BACKGROUND PAPERS (NOTE -
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Stratus Consulting Memorandum (4/16
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