West Babine Sustainable Resource Management Plan

Foreword
Xsu gwin lik’l’inswx: West Babine Sustainable Resource Management Plan
The purpose of the West Babine Sustainable Resource Management Plan is to guide land and
resource use within the plan area to provide long-term sustainability of natural resources, jobs,
and communities in the West Babine area. This plan is intended to implement the objectives of
the Kispiox Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) and the Babine Local Resource Use
Plan (LRUP) within the Kispiox Timber Supply Area. In keeping with the Governance
Principles for Sustainable Resource Management being drafted by the provincial government,
the plan provides the following:
Certainty, by providing clear management direction to resource users;
Efficiency in the allocation, development and use of natural resources, by clarifying the
timing and nature of activities that can occur in the area;
Flexibility, by presenting results-based standards that will allow resource users to use their
innovation and professional skills in developing implementation strategies;
Transparency, by creating the plan in a spirit of openness of information and in consultation
with First Nations, stakeholders, and the general public;
Accountability, by setting measurable objectives and indicators that can be tracked over time;
and
Efficacy, by incorporating monitoring and adaptive management to ensure that the desired
outcome is achieved.
The West Babine SRMP has been developed through consultation with stakeholders and with the
Gitxsan First Nation. The plan is intended to provide a balance of social, cultural, economic and
environmental values that consider the values of all those who have an interest for the area.
The plan will establish one landscape unit: the West Babine Landscape Unit and will establish
landscape objectives for this landscape unit. The plan will also amend the Atna Shelagyote and
Babine River Special Management Zones established by the Kispiox LRMP. The Babine River
Special Management Zone within the Bulkley TSA remains unchanged.
A copy of the West Babine SRMP may be obtained as follows:
on the MSRM website at http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/ske/srmp/index.htm; or
upon request from the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management. Please contact:
Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management, Skeena Region
Bag 5000
Smithers, BC, V0J 2N0
Ph: 250-847-7260
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