It's nice to see you again.
The short answer is yes. The reorganization was announced only on Monday, so it's early days to know how effective it is.
The principal concern of the forum in terms of watersheds was that the province was issuing independently across a number of different agencies--forests, tourism, lands, environment, and mining--different permissions to access and do business with watersheds. And although none of these individual agencies was trying to do damage to the watersheds, no one was looking at the collective effects of all of these decisions on watersheds, which act as whole ecosystems.
The forum felt there had to be some oversight, some mechanism by which every decision on independent power projects, resource roads, mining projects, and forestry was looked at so that it didn't exceed the ecological limits of the watersheds and thereby affect the health of species such as salmon.
With the advent of this natural resource agency, every agency that issues permits, whether they're forest permits, water permits, land permits, or mining permits, is now under one agency. So there is the opportunity to keep score of the approvals being made on watersheds and hopefully make sure they don't exceed the ecological capacity of these watersheds.