West Babine Sustainable Resource Management Plan

Babine LRUP
Objectives
Wildlife • Identify and maintain
important wildlife
habitat
Grizzly Bear • Maintain present
population.
• Manage for grizzly
bear viewing
opportunities
identified along the
Babine River
Corridor.
• Identify and maintain
grizzly movement
corridors to and
along the river and
areas outside the
river corridor.
Bull Trout
Babine LRUP Strategies
Wildlife
TU4:
• Minimize human-bear conflicts
and preserve high-value grizzly
habitat
• Roads should remain 150 m
from high value habitats.
• 100 meter buffer should be
provided adjacent to high-value
habitats.
TU 4a:
• Mix forest management
utilizing selective harvest
techniques.
TU 5:
• Minimize road development and
number and duration of entries.
• Single entry followed by a
sustained period of inactivity
• Blocks up to 200 ha
• Where high-value habitat types
(>2 ha) are identified, manage
as TU 4
TU 6
• Integrated resource
management.
• Where high-value habitat types
(>2 ha) are identified, manage
as TU 4 and maintain visual
screening.
Babine SMZ
• High value habitat and
movement corridors, manage as
TU 4.
• Sight distances along roads will
not exceed 300 metres.
West Babine SRMP
Objectives/Targets
• Access management areas
established for Sperry/Rosenthal,
Shenismike West and Big Slide.
Shenismike Corridor
• No roads
High-Value Grizzly Bear Habitat
• No alteration of critical habitats,
unless no practical alternative
exists.
• Provide a 100m buffer of windfirm,
functional forest cover adjacent to
non-forested critical habitats.
• No permanent roads located within
150m of critical habitats.
• No bridge within 750m of known
bull trout staging areas on the
Shelagyote mainstem.
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