Crown Land: Indicators and Statistics - Ministry of Forests

4.1 Overview
Throughout BC, government has coordinated with
First Nations, government agencies and stakeholders
to develop and implement Strategic Land and
Resource Plans (SLRPs), which are used to establish
land use direction and objectives. The planning
direction flowing from land use planning serves to
inform natural resource sector decision-makers when
they are making operational policy and land use
decisions, including the issuing of Land Act tenures
and grants. Some of the significant outcomes of
strategic land and resource planning include:
• protecting unique and important ecological
and cultural values;
• increasing regional economic diversity;
• improving business investment certainty;
• resolving land based conflicts; and,
• providing meaningful engagement to address
First Nations’ interests.
Crown Land:
Indicators and
56 Statistics Report
Land and
Resources
Land Use Direction
and Objectives
Crown Land
Allocation
Strategic land and resource plans have been
developed for large regions, sub-regions, or
landscape unit sized areas of the province, with their
scale depending on the area-specific needs. Through
the planning process, the interests and needs of
stakeholders are identified, land use policy direction
is defined, resource management strategies and
zones are developed, and legal land use objectives
are established under the authority of the Land Act,
as required.
Part 4 presents a range of statistics and indicators
related to strategic land and resource planning,
focusing on the variability and distribution of SLRPs
in the province, as well as some of the important
outputs of these planning processes. These outputs
include: the development of policy-based land use
zones and designations that are a primary outcome of
most strategic planning exercises; the establishment
of legal land use objectives; the establishment of
Old Growth Management Areas; and the creation of
parks and other protected areas which in many cases
are a result of land use planning processes.
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