Environmental Information Management System

Name: Wood Bison

Phylum: Craniata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Artiodactyla

Family: Bovidae

Scientific: Bos bison athabascae

• Graze in grass and sedge meadows, wetland associated meadows, shrub lands and dry grasslands.
• Winter grazing in wet meadows with sedges and grasses as winter grazing habitat; summer grazing in meadows that contain slough sedge,  northern reed-grass and/or willow
• Meadow-associated deciduous pine forests used for resting, ruminating, thermal protection and foraging at various time throughout the year. Larger meadows selected during the calving season.

• Retain habitat viability and connectivity.
• Ensure that activities do not disrupt behaviour of adult females and young during the calving season.
• Maintain desired plant communities and key habitat features.

NOTE: EIMS guidance only applies to Etthithun and Nordquist herds.

All Activities 

• Identify key habitat features using appropriate measures (i.e. QP direction, desktop review, field confirmation, etc) and plan activities within the operating area accordingly.
• Time works such that they occur outside of the critical timing window.
• Apply the appropriate survey and setback requirements for WHFs within identified habitat. (Refer to section 1.9 of the EPMG for additional guidance on WHFs).

NOTE: EIMS guidance only applies to Etthithun and Nordquist herds.

All Activities

• Undertake construction and operation of oil and gas activities in a manner that minimizes impacts to desired plant communities and key habitat features.

 

Timing considerations when working within identified habitat:

• Avoid disturbance and/or clearing activities during the critical timing window from April 15 to July 15.

 

Linear Features

All

• Avoid creation of linear features within known birthing areas.
• Upon completion of the activity, undertake the following measures to encourage re-establishment of the pre-disturbance ecological trajectory:

• deactivate unnecessary access corridors,
• undertake measures to control access,
• promote natural or assisted regeneration.