. The Canadian field-naturalist. . :53i^. ^. :ii At a farewell luncheon held in honour of Joe Bryant on the occasion of his retirement in 1983, the guest of hon- our (I.) listened intently while long-time colleague Hugh Boyd emphasized a point (Photo credit: J. Foley). The review process was put in the hands of a working group headed by Quebec Regional Director Pierre Desmeules and including Jim Foley and Gaston Moisan. By the spring of 1983, they had come back with a draft conceptual plan for federal wildlife management in which was proposed a major reassessment of the respective roles and re
. The Canadian field-naturalist. . :53i^. ^. :ii At a farewell luncheon held in honour of Joe Bryant on the occasion of his retirement in 1983, the guest of hon- our (I.) listened intently while long-time colleague Hugh Boyd emphasized a point (Photo credit: J. Foley). The review process was put in the hands of a working group headed by Quebec Regional Director Pierre Desmeules and including Jim Foley and Gaston Moisan. By the spring of 1983, they had come back with a draft conceptual plan for federal wildlife management in which was proposed a major reassessment of the respective roles and responsibilities for wildlife of the federal and other levels of government. Closer federal-provincial cooperation was to be the order of the day, based on a clarification of the economic and ecological val- ues of migratory birds. Some federal responsibili- ties might be delegated to the provinces, on request, and a cooperative effort would be initiated to devel- op national principles, standards, and management criteria. The concept of cooperative management initia- tives received an important boost at the 48th Federal-Provincial Wildlife Conference, held in Timmins, Ontario, in June 1984. The theme of the gathering was "Teamwork in Wildlife Management," and Tetrault was pleased to be able to point to a shining example of what this meant when he announced that a new organization, Wildlife Habitat Canada, had received its Charter the preced- ing February. It emerged as a spinoff from the con- tinuing efforts of Jim Patterson, George Finney, and others to negotiate a continental waterfowl manage- ment plan (see Chapter 6). This new style of multistakeholder foundation was governed by a board of directors that included feder- al and provincial officials as well as representatives from nongovernment organizations and private industry. Wildlife Habitat Canada received $3 mil- lion in federal startup and administrative grants over its first two years. By its third year, sus
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