Successful and unsuccessful attempts to resolve caribou management and timber harvesting issues in west central Alberta
Research studies of woodland caribou in west central Alberta began in 1979 in response to proposed timber harvesting on their winter ranges. Using results from initial studies, timber harvest guidelines were developed. A recent review of these guidelines, and the assumptions on which they were based...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/1241 2023-05-15T18:03:55+02:00 Successful and unsuccessful attempts to resolve caribou management and timber harvesting issues in west central Alberta Hervieux, David Edmonds, Janet Bonar, Richard McCammon, Jim 1996-01-01 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1241 https://doi.org/10.7557/2.16.4.1241 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1241/1180 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1241 doi:10.7557/2.16.4.1241 Copyright (c) 2015 David Hervieux, Janet Edmonds, Richard Bonar, Jim McCammon http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Rangifer; Vol 16 (1996): Special Issue No. 9; 185-190 1890-6729 caribou management Rangifer woodland caribou timber management landscape planning habitat management conflict resolution Alberta info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1996 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/2.16.4.1241 2021-08-16T14:54:19Z Research studies of woodland caribou in west central Alberta began in 1979 in response to proposed timber harvesting on their winter ranges. Using results from initial studies, timber harvest guidelines were developed. A recent review of these guidelines, and the assumptions on which they were based, has resulted in a renegotiation by government and industry of timber harvesting on caribou range in west central Alberta. Caribou range in west central Alberta overlaps many jurisdictional boundaries: federal and provincial lands, four Forest Management Agreement Areas, three Alberta Land and Forest Service Regions and two Alberta Fish and Wildlife Service Regions. This jurisdictional complexity in combination with other factors such as total allocation of the timber resources, high levels of petroleum, natural gas and coal extraction activities, a high level of concern by public groups for caribou conservation and recent understanding of woodland caribou needs for abundant space has made resolution of caribou/timber harvest conflicts exceedingly slow and often relatively unproductive. This paper reviews 10 years of trying to resolve conflicts between timber harvesting and caribou conservation through meetings, committees, integrated resource planning, policy papers and public consultation. We describe what might be learned by other jurisdictions that are trying to resolve similar caribou/timber harvesting issues. We conclude with an overview of recent timber harvest planning initiatives on caribou range in west central Alberta. Article in Journal/Newspaper Rangifer University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Caribou Range ENVELOPE(-125.436,-125.436,59.750,59.750) Rangifer 16 4 185 |
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Research studies of woodland caribou in west central Alberta began in 1979 in response to proposed timber harvesting on their winter ranges. Using results from initial studies, timber harvest guidelines were developed. A recent review of these guidelines, and the assumptions on which they were based, has resulted in a renegotiation by government and industry of timber harvesting on caribou range in west central Alberta. Caribou range in west central Alberta overlaps many jurisdictional boundaries: federal and provincial lands, four Forest Management Agreement Areas, three Alberta Land and Forest Service Regions and two Alberta Fish and Wildlife Service Regions. This jurisdictional complexity in combination with other factors such as total allocation of the timber resources, high levels of petroleum, natural gas and coal extraction activities, a high level of concern by public groups for caribou conservation and recent understanding of woodland caribou needs for abundant space has made resolution of caribou/timber harvest conflicts exceedingly slow and often relatively unproductive. This paper reviews 10 years of trying to resolve conflicts between timber harvesting and caribou conservation through meetings, committees, integrated resource planning, policy papers and public consultation. We describe what might be learned by other jurisdictions that are trying to resolve similar caribou/timber harvesting issues. We conclude with an overview of recent timber harvest planning initiatives on caribou range in west central Alberta. |
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Successful and unsuccessful attempts to resolve caribou management and timber harvesting issues in west central Alberta |
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Successful and unsuccessful attempts to resolve caribou management and timber harvesting issues in west central Alberta |
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Successful and unsuccessful attempts to resolve caribou management and timber harvesting issues in west central Alberta |
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successful and unsuccessful attempts to resolve caribou management and timber harvesting issues in west central alberta |
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