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The percentage of each sub-region that falls within a protected area is shown in Figure 16. Crown Land: Indicators and 78 Statistics Report Figure 16 Percentage of Natural Resource Sector Sub-region within Protected Areas Source: GeoBC Geographic Warehouse In BC, protected areas are intended to protect representative examples of the major terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems, as well as important natural, recreational, and cultural features. The Biogeoclimatic Ecological Classification (BEC) system delineates ecological zones by vegetation, soils and climate. Sixteen BEC ecological zones have been identified in BC. Figure 17 breaks down protected areas by BEC zone. The percentage of BEC zones within protected areas ranges from a low of 5% for the Ponderosa Pine BEC zone, to a high of 25% for the Coastal Mountain– Heather Alpine BEC zone.
Discussion Figure 17 Percentage of BEC Zone in Protected Areas Source: GeoBC Geographic Warehouse The term “protected area” can indicate varying levels of protection: from complete restriction of human access to identifying allowable resource use activities that are compatible with conservation and recreation objectives. The primary drivers for the creation and expansion of parks and other protected areas have changed over the years in BC. In the late 1930s and 1940s park expansion was used to encourage tourism. In the 1970s and 1980s park creation was motivated by the desire to protect unique natural environments and cultural features. In the 1990s, the objective was for parks to represent BC’s biological and cultural diversity, provide recreational resources, and to protect habitat. During the 1990s, the creation of new protected areas became a focal point of the land use planning processes. SLRPs were the primary mechanism for delivering on the Protected Areas Strategy target of increasing the amount of provincial land base in protected areas from 6.3% to 12% by 2000. This target was achieved and exceeded. Since 2000, an additional 2.2% of BC’s land base has been set aside in protected areas. Recent additions to the protected areas system include the May 2008 designation of 70 new conservancies and 11 new Class A parks, along with the expansion of 5 existing parks and 2 existing conservancies. The new conservancies and parks placed more than 1.4 million additional hectares under protected areas status, and were largely a result of the North Coast, Central Coast, Morice, Sea-to-Sky, Haida Gwaii and Okanagan-Shuswap land use planning processes. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations 79
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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
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Section Key Statistics and Indicato
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Land and 2 Resources
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2.2 Crown Land Ownership by Provinc
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Additional Information • Informat
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how much of the lands in some of th
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Private (fee simple title) lands ar
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2.4 British Columbia Land Use and L
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The distribution of land uses and c
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3.1 Overview The continued well-bei
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First Nations are an important part
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The sub-region with the greatest nu
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Page 41 and 42: Discussion Unemployment levels tend
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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
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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 and 66: Land Use Direction 4 and Objectives
Page 67 and 68: 4.2 Strategic Land and Resource Pla
Page 69 and 70: In BC, 85% of the land base (80,011
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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 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
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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
Page 117 and 118: Figure 34 shows the sub-regional di
Page 119 and 120: Appendix 1 Sector Descriptions Tenu
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