I would say it's appropriate to have relations with local and regional DFO staff to set those appropriate buffer distances.
Essentially, we have implemented what we call riparian area buffers adjacent to the watercourses, such that we don't want the temperature of the stream to increase. They really shouldn't feel the effects of forestry. It should be a distance that they wouldn't feel any warming impacts from a removal of vegetation.
I would say it was helpful. We had constructive relationships with regional DFO staff, and through the operational statement program, it was a notification system. If we were undergoing a clear-span bridge or a pretty routine activity, we would notify DFO of that. It gave them the opportunity to essentially spot-check or to audit. They could come out and check to see if all of the operational statements or mitigation measures were being implemented according to what we had set out to do.