Environmental Information Management System

Name: White-tailed Deer

Phylum: Craniata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Artiodactyla

Family: Cervidae

Scientific: Odocoileus virginianus

• Broad array of habitats, including forests and woodlands, forest edges, shrublands, grasslands with shrubs, riparian areas, cultivated fields, residential areas

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

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).

 

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 within know birthing areas during the critical timing window from May 15 to July 15.

 

Linear Features

• 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.