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Name: Boreal Caribou

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Scientific: Rangifer tarandus pop. 14

• Black spruce bogs, bog-fen complexes or lake clusters, lichen bearing stands and mature black spruce stands.
• Large intact peatland complexes, fens and black spruce bogs function as calving habitat allowing for caribou to disperse widely and calve in isolation away from predators.
• Lichen bearing winter foraging areas including mature black spruce.

• Minimize disturbance within calving areas.
• Minimize access (predator and vehicular access) into calving areas and winter range.
• Maintain functional integrity of Caribou habitat.
• Avoid introducing ungulate attractants (such as early seral forage, grasses and legume)
• Prevent fragmentation and linear disturbance
• Manage line of sight (predator/prey impacts) 

*NOTE: Provincial management of Boreal Caribou will be changing in the near future in response to the Boreal Caribou Implementation Plan 5 years of research and therefore the current guidance is certain to change pending any new direction transmitted to the Commission from Provincial government. All guidance will be updated as soon as it is available. Please refer to the IOP (Interim Operating Practices for Oil and Gas Activities in Identified Boreal Caribou Habitat) for additional information.

 

*NOTE: Provincial management of Boreal Caribou will be changing in the near future in response to the Boreal Caribou Implementation Plan 5 years of research and therefore the current guidance is certain to change pending any new direction transmitted to the Commission from Provincial government. All guidance will be updated as soon as it is available. Please refer to the IOP (Interim Operating Practices for Oil and Gas Activities in Identified Boreal Caribou Habitat) for additional information.