WHA-9-148
- Region: Peace - 9
- Legal under OGAA: Yes
- Legal under FRPA: Yes
General Information
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General Wildlife Measures
No new roads or linear features
No impact to forest cover
No disturbance to caribou April1-June 30
To protect and conserve northern mountain caribou and the habitat of northern mountain caribou
To prevent new access and linear corridors
Use existing linear corridors or disturbance
Construct access to the lowest standard possible (whilst considering safety)
No disturbance to caribou April1-June 30
To limit predator mobility and attractants
To prevent impacts to terrestrial and arboreal lichen.
To retain critical habitat including:
peatland complexes
fens and black spruce bogs
complex water bodies
lichen bearing stands
terrestrial lichen mats
windswept ridges
Planning Measures:
Qualified Professionals have site specific discretion and flexibility in prescribing methods to achieve desired habitat condition.
No new access or linear corridors.
Use existing disturbance
No removal of forest cover
Minimize impacts to lichen and caribou habitat
Retain mature and old seral stage forest (>120yr)
Operational Measures:
No disturbance to caribou April1-June 30
No disturbance to caribou during sensitive periods (pre-calving, post calving (April1-June30) and rutting periods Sept15-Oct31))
Construct access to the lowest standard possible (whilst considering safety)
Minimize predator mobility and attractants:
Minimize snow ploughing of access routes
Provide visual screening along roads
Manage for line of sight
Minimize growth of early seral forage on clearings
Minimize impacts to lichen and caribou habitat
use snow cover and frozen ground to improve lichen survival and regeneration
retain trees for dispersal of lichen
avoid impacts to natural drainage patterns
avoid altering surface hydrology and flow patterns
Promote regeneration of natural, preharvest ecosystems.
Avoid seeding of grass and legume based mixes.