Cassiar Iskut - Stikine Land and Resource Management Plan
October 2000
Table of Contents
1. Introduction1.1 The Plan Area
1.1.1 Physical Description
1.1.2 Social and Economic Description
1.2 The Process
2. Management Direction1.2.1 Process Overview
1.2.2 First Nations Participation
1.2.3 Communications
1.2.4 Interests
2.1 Resource Use and Development Activity in the LRMP area
2.2 Vision and Goals
2.3 General Management Direction
2.3.1 Access Management
2.3.2 Biodiversity/ Ecosystem Health
2.3.3 Botanical Forest Products and Medicinal Plants
2.3.4 Cultural Heritage Resources
2.3.5 Hunting, Trapping, Guide Outfitting, Fishing
2.3.6 Mineral and Energy Resources
2.3.7 Recreation and Tourism
2.3.8 Settlement/ Agriculture/ Range
2.3.9 Timber
2.3.10 Visual Quality
2.4 Area-Specific Management
2.4.1 Hottah-Tucho Lakes Zone
2.4.2 McBride Zone
2.4.3 Klappan Zone
2.4.4 Iskut Lakes Zone
2.4.5 Mount Edziza Zone
2.4.6 Kakkidi/Mowdade/Nuttlude Lakes Zone
2.4.7 Todagin Zone
2.4.8 Middle Iskut Zone
2.4.9 Lower Iskut Zone
2.4.10 Unuk River Zone
2.4.11 Lower Stikine-Iskut Coastal Grizzly/Salmon Zone
2.4.12 Chutine Zone
2.4.13 Telegraph Creek Community Watershed Zone
2.4.14 Tuya Zone
2.4.15 Metsantan Zone
2.5 Protected Areas
2.5.1 Objectives and Strategies for Management within Protected Areas
2.5.2 New Protected Areas
3. Research and Inventory Priorities
5. Socio-Economic and Environmental Analysis5.1 Introduction6. Implementation, Monitoring and Amendment
5.2 The “Base Case” vs. the LRMP Land Use Regimes
5.3 Socio-Economic Implications
5.4 Environmental Implications
5.5 Higher Level Plan Provisions under the Forest Practices Code
5.6 Conclusions
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Roles and Responsibilities
6.2.1 Provincial Ministries and Agencies
6.2.2 First Nations
6.2.3 LRMP Monitoring Committee
6.2.4 Public
6.2.5 Local Governments
6.3 Implementation
6.3.1 Legal Designations
6.3.2 Direction to More Detailed Planning
6.3.3 Public Education
6.4 Monitoring
6.5 Plan Amendments
6.5.1 Minor revisions
6.5.2 Major revisions
6.5.3 10-year Plan Review
6.6 Interpretation and Appeal
7. Glossary of Terms6.6.1 Interpretation of Land Use Objectives and Strategies
6.6.2 Appeal of Resource Management Practices
List of Maps:
maps will be available soon
Map 1: Base Map
Map 2: Resource Management Zones and Protected Areas
Map 3: Fire Management: Initial Attack Zone
Map 4: Plateaus with ATV Restrictions
Map 5: High Value Moose Habitat
Map 6: High Value Caribou Habitat
Map 7: High Value Stone’s Sheep Habitat
Map 8: High Value Mountain Goat Habitat
Map 9: Lambing and Kidding Areas for Mountain Ungulates
Map 10: High Value Grizzly Bear Habitat
Map 11: High Value Marten Habitat
Map 12: Heritage Trails
Map 13: Scenic Areas
Map 14: Todagin Wildlife Management Area, Showing Protected Area and Excluded Mineral Tenures.
Map 15: Craig Headwaters Protected Area, Showing Excluded Mineral Tenures
Map 16: Metsantan Protected Area (Upper Stikine Spatsizi Extension), Showing Excluded Mineral Tenures
Map 17: Grizzly Research Areas
List of Appendices:
Appendix 1: Cassiar Iskut-Stikine LRMP Economic Strategy
Appendix 2: Terms of Reference for the Cassiar Iskut-Stikine LRMP Planning Process
Appendix 3: Participants at the LRMP Planning Table
Appendix 4: Detailed List of Interests Developed by Members of the LRMP Planning Table
Appendix 5: Policy Recommendations
Appendix 6: Rare and Endangered Plant and Animal Species in the Cassiar Iskut-Stikine
Appendix 7: Integrated Management for Grizzly Bears
Appendix 9: General guidelines for resource and recreational use within Protected Areas
Appendix 10: Summary of Strategies for Public Education
Appendix 11: Inventories Used in the Planning Process
Appendix 12: Detailed Maps of Small Protected Areas
