Summary UWR u-9-004

No roads or trails

No impact to forest cover 

UWR established as large tracts of undisturbed high elevation winter.

No roads or impacts to forest cover.

Minimize disturbance in late winter period. Critical activity to be completed Nov01-Jan30

Minimize habitat loss, alteration and degradation, prevent fragmentation and retain large leave areas.

Maintain key arboreal & terrestrial lichen.  

Limit access and linear disturbance. Enhance visual screening and maintain a network of connected forest for caribou mobility.

Reduce sensory disturbances and displacement of caribou.

Avoid:

Peatland complexes

Fens and black spruce bogs

Complex water bodies

Mature black spruce stands (lichen)

Lichen bearing stands

Mature pine leading stands 

Planning Measures:

No roads no trails

No forest cover removal

Coordinate access

Construct access to the lowest standard possible (as long as safety elements are met)

Minimize impacts to lichen:

Avoid pine leading forest

Retain old forest (>120 years old)

Operational Measures:

Minimize disturbance in winter period. Critical activity to be completed (Nov01-Jan30).

Minimize predator mobility and attractants

Apply shrub bands and line of sight barriers

Prevent openings that attract ungulates.

Minimize snow ploughing

Minimize impacts to lichen:

Use snow cover and frozen ground to prevent ground disturbance

Retain tree patches for dispersal of lichen

Mitigate and restore:

Promptly deactivate access

Expedite the regeneration of lichen-bearing coniferous