One of the recommendations, from the feedback received at the workshops since 2010, was to include the Coastal Western Hemlock Eastern Very Dry Maritime (CWHxm1) variant in the discussion about CDF conservation because of the transitional area between the two biogeoclimatic units, the anticipated changes in boundaries due to the effects of climate change, and in many areas, similar levels of loss and fragmentation to that of the CDF. A key difference between the CWHxm1 and the CDF is that the CWHxm1 is much broader in range in BC and extends into the Pacific Northwest of the USA.