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Dease Liard Sustainable Resource Management Plan Dease Liard Sustainable Resource Management Plan Background Document January, 2004 Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management Table of Contents Table of Contents................................................................................................................. i List of Tables ...................................................................................................................... ii List of Maps ........................................................................................................................ ii List of Acronyms ...............................................................................................................iii Glossary .............................................................................................................................. v 1. Introduction.................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Plan Objectives ........................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Background.............................................................................................................. 1 1.3 MSRM Mandate, Principals and Organizational Values......................................... 2 1.4 SRM Planning and Plans Defined............................................................................ 3 1.5 Scope of Dease-Liard SRM Plan ............................................................................. 5 1.6 The Process .............................................................................................................. 6 1.6.1 Dease-Liard Area Assessment Process............................................................. 6 1.6.2 Sustainable Resource Management Planning Process...................................... 8 1.7 Dease-Liard Plan Area........................................................................................... 10 1.7.1 Biophysical Setting ......................................................................................... 10 1.7.2 Social and Economic Description................................................................... 13 2. Land Use Context ........................................................................................................ 17 2.1 Kaska Dena Values and Concerns ......................................................................... 17 2.1.1 General Concerns and Values......................................................................... 17 2.1.2 Zone Specific Values and Concerns ............................................................... 19 2.2 Present Land Use Issues, Interests, and Uncertainties........................................... 20 2.2.1 Treaty Negotiations and Interim Measures Agreement .................................. 21 2.2.2 Forestry Economic Measures Agreement....................................................... 22 2.2.3 Memorandum of Understanding on Forest Stewardship for the..................... 23 Kaska Traditional Territory ............................................................................ 23 2.2.4 Establishment of Working Forest Landbase................................................... 23 2.2.5 Results-Based Code ........................................................................................ 24 2.2.6 Protection of Boreal Forests............................................................................ 25 2.2.7 Timber Availability......................................................................................... 25 2.2.8 Access Planning and Management ................................................................. 26 2.2.9 Sub-surface Resources.................................................................................... 26 2.2.10 Caribou Management.................................................................................... 27 2.2.11 Tourism and Recreation Management.......................................................... 27 2.2.12 Other Issues, Interests and Uncertainties...................................................... 28 2.2.13 Dease-Liard SRMP Relation to the Treaty Negotiations, IMA,................... 28 Forestry EM Agreement, and Timber Availability....................................... 28 3.0 Legal Direction .......................................................................................................... 28 3.1 Existing Policies and Planning Direction .............................................................. 28 4.0 Biodiveristy/Wildlife ................................................................................................. 29 4.1 Introduction............................................................................................................ 29 4.2 Ecological Patterns................................................................................................. 29 4.2.1 Ecological Setting ........................................................................................... 29 Dease-Liard Sustainable Resource Management Plan i Background Document, July 2003 4.2.2 Patterns of Diversity ....................................................................................... 30 4.2.3 Rare Species and Communities ...................................................................... 31 4.3 Natural Disturbance Regimes ................................................................................ 33 4.3.1 Disturbance Types .......................................................................................... 33 4.3.2 Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Fires........................................................... 33 4.4 The Focus of Biodiversity Planning ...................................................................... 36 4.5 Coarse Filter Management..................................................................................... 37 4.5.1 Seral Stage Distribution and Opening Sizes ................................................... 37 4.5.2 Old Seral Stage Retention and Representation ............................................... 37 4.5.3 Stand Structure................................................................................................ 38 4.5.4 Landscape Connectivity.................................................................................. 38 4.5.5 Species Composition....................................................................................... 38 5.0 Protected Areas .......................................................................................................... 39 5.1 Existing Protected Areas........................................................................................ 39 5.2 Protected Areas Strategy Study Areas ................................................................... 39 5.3 Horse Ranch Zone.................................................................................................. 41 6.0 Timber........................................................................................................................ 41 6.1 Previous Timber Evaluations................................................................................. 41 6.2 Timber Zones......................................................................................................... 41 7.0 Visual Quality ............................................................................................................ 42 7.1 Assessment of visual quality resources.................................................................. 42 7.2 Preliminary decisions............................................................................................. 42 Appendices........................................................................................................................ 45 Appendix A: Current Seral Stage Distribution ................................................................. 45 List of Tables Table 1: Summary of fire-induced disturbance rates and patch sizes in the plan area and related boreal regions Table 2: Numbers and sizes of remnant stands by fire size class in boreal mixedwood of Alberta Table 3: Existing parks and protected areas within the Dease-Liard plan area Table 4: Goal 2 PAS Study Areas List of Maps Map 1: Plan area Map 2: Biogeoclimatic zones and ecosections Map 3: First Nations traditional territories Map 10: Heritage trails and Horse Ranch zone Map 11: Protected areas and Cabinet approved study areas Map 12: Timber Map 15: Dease-Liard Area Assessment zones Dease-Liard Sustainable Resource Management Plan ii Background Document, July 2003 List of Acronyms AAC Annual allowable cut AOA Archaeological Overview Assessment ATV All terrain vehicle BEC Biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification BWBS Boreal Black and White Spruce biogeoclimatic zone CDC Conservation Data Centre COSEWIC Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada CPAWS Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society CWD Coarse woody debris DFO Department of Fisheries and Oceans (now Fisheries and Oceans Canada) DLAA Dease-Liard Area Assessment DLAAP Dease-Liard Area Assessment Process DLPA Dease-Liard planning area DLSRMP Dease-Liard Sustainable Resource Management Plan ECA Equivalent clearcut area FPC Forest Practices Code FRC Forest Resources Council FRPA Forest and Range Practices Act FSP Forest Stewardship Plan GIS Geographic information system HLP Higher level plan IAMC Inter Agency Management Committee IMA Interim Measures Agreement IWMS Identified wildlife management strategy LLP Landscape
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