Crown Land: Indicators and Statistics - Ministry of Forests

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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. Socio-economic Activity
4.2 Strategic Land and Resource Plans Why is this Important? Strategic Land and Resource Plans (SLRPs) establish direction and objectives for land and natural resource management on BC’s Crown land. SLRPs cover a significant portion of the province. Their focus can range from comprehensive (i.e. taking into account both the geography and resources considered in the plan area) to quite specific (e.g. focusing only on old growth retention). The variety and extent of SLRPs gives some indication of the range of policy and legal direction provided to decision-makers. Key Statistics There are 138 approved SLRPs in BC (Table 8), including: • 24 regional scale SLRPs that are comprehensive in scope and cover areas up to several million hectares in size; • 44 sub-regional scale SLRPs that vary in scope and cover areas up to several thousand hectares; and, • 70 landscape scale SLRPs that have a more focused scope and may only cover the area of a single watershed or landscape unit. Table 8 describes the different types of plans established at the regional, sub-regional and landscape scale, including the total number and hectares coverage of each plan type. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations 57
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CROWN LAND: Indicators & Statistics
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Acknowledgements This project was l
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Report Highlights Land and Resource
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Table of Contents Acknowledgements
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Figure 25 Average Area of Current T
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1 Introduction
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Legislation Governing Crown Land Ma
Page 15 and 16: Section Key Statistics and Indicato
Page 17 and 18: Land and 2 Resources
Page 19 and 20: 2.2 Crown Land Ownership by Provinc
Page 21 and 22: Additional Information • Informat
Page 23 and 24: how much of the lands in some of th
Page 25 and 26: Private (fee simple title) lands ar
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Page 29 and 30: The distribution of land uses and c
Page 31 and 32: 3.1 Overview The continued well-bei
Page 33 and 34: First Nations are an important part
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Page 37 and 38: Map 5 illustrates the dominant inco
Page 39 and 40: Brownfields are abandoned, vacant,
Page 41 and 42: Discussion Unemployment levels tend
Page 43 and 44: There are times when particular att
Page 45 and 46: Discussion Industries directly asso
Page 47 and 48: Manufacturing and commercial sector
Page 49 and 50: Utilities and pipelines sector Appr
Page 51 and 52: Table 6 Crown Land Tenured or Prote
Page 53 and 54: Protected areas, which support the
Page 55 and 56: Crown land sites occupy around 50%
Page 57 and 58: Figure 9 Percentage of GDP Produced
Page 59 and 60: GDP produced by forestry support se
Page 61 and 62: The proportion of 2006 GDP produced
Page 63 and 64: Figure 12 Government Resource Reven
Page 65: Land Use Direction 4 and Objectives
Page 69 and 70: In BC, 85% of the land base (80,011
Page 71 and 72: Map 7 Approved Sub-regional and Lan
Page 73 and 74: 4.3 Land Use Policy Direction Why i
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Page 77 and 78: 4.4 Land Use Objectives Established
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Page 81 and 82: 4.5 Old Growth Management Areas Why
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Page 85 and 86: Table 11 Types of Protected Area De
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Page 89 and 90: Discussion Figure 17 Percentage of
Page 91 and 92: Crown Land 5 Allocation
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Page 95 and 96: Table 12 Tenure and Grant Types Ten
Page 97 and 98: Discussion Just over half (51%) of
Page 99 and 100: 5.3 Tenures by Sector Why is this I
Page 101 and 102: Figure 23 Applications in Manufactu
Page 103 and 104: number of total tenures issued at 9
Page 105 and 106: Discussion Overall, the total numbe
Page 107 and 108: 5.4 Grants by Sector Why is this Im
Page 109 and 110: Discussion The residential, agricul
Page 111 and 112: Figure 29 Sponsored Crown Grants an
Page 113 and 114: 5.6 Government Land Revenue Why is
Page 115 and 116: The manufacturing and commercial se
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Figure 34 shows the sub-regional di
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Appendix 1 Sector Descriptions Tenu
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