Wetland Mitigation In Canada

A workshop was held to encourage the exchange of experience with wetland policy implementation in Canada, to discuss strategies and approaches with respect to issues involved in implementation procedures and guidelines for these wetland policies, and to prepare a national summary paper on wetland policy implementation. This document presents the text of 14 invited presentations at the workshop covering the development, evolution, and implementation of wetland policy. The document also provides a summary of working group discussions and workshop recommendations, and includes the workshop agenda, a list of participants, and a directory of wetland policy documents and source agencies.

This report summarizes proceedings of a workshop that addresses past & current thinking & activity regarding developmental pressures on wetlands and outlines how to minimize impacts on wetlands or wetland systems. It also provides some recommendations for future action to further document & act on wetland developmental pressures in Canada. Topics covered include wetland mitigation & compensation initiatives in the United States & Canada, fish habitat mitigation & compensation, the policy setting for implementation of wetland mitigation, and Ontario experience with a no-loss wetland policy.

The purpose of this paper is to describe Canada's frameworks for wetland conservation. It first describes the policy framework, looking at federal, provincial, and industry sector policies on wetlands. It then reviews the legislative framework, summarizing federal, provincial, and territorial jurisdiction & statutes concerning wetlands. The final section summarizes common themes & features found in wetland policies, discusses their evolution, and indicates issues for further study. Appendices include a discussion of wetland definitions and a summary of wetland policies & statutes by jurisdiction.

"The study of wetlands from a land use change perspective has been selected as the second component of the Prime Resource Lands Project, Canada Land Use Monitoring Program. This report examines the existing information on wetland conversion, to serve as a basis for the design and focus of a national land use monitoring project"--Abstract.