Sub Unit PM-004-194132

No new roads or linear corridors

No removal of forest cover 

To protect and conserve the habitat of northern caribou and Stones Sheep.

Prevent new linear corridors or new access

New development to use existing disturbance

Limit impacts to forest cover.

Minimize disturbance in late winter period. Critical activity to be completed Nov01-Feb15

Minimize habitat loss, alteration and degradation, prevent fragmentation and linear disturbances.

Maintain and protect key arboreal & terrestrial lichen.

Minimize line-of-sight and provide visual screening along new disturbances.

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

Terrestrail lichen mats

windswept ridges 

Planning Measures:

Construct any new access to the lowest standard possible (whilst meeting safety considerations).

Maintain high quality caribou habitat and forage [SFW1] 

Minimize impacts to lichen and caribou habitat:

avoid pine leading stands on sunny aspects

retain mature and old seral stage forest 

Operational Measures

Minimize impacts to lichen and caribou habitat:

use snow cover and frozen ground to improve lichen survival and regeneration

retain mature/old trees for dispersal of lichen

avoid impacts to surficial hydrology,  flow patterns and natural drainage

Minimize predator mobility and attractants

limit snow ploughing

provide visual screening along roads

Minimize line of sight along roads and linear features

Avoid seeding of non-native grass and legume based mixes.

Minimize growth of early seral forage/browse in clearings

Promote regeneration of natural pre-development ecosystem