This road rehabilitation planning project will mitigate the impacts of forest development for Tweedsmuir-Entakio Caribou (TEC) by reducing predator prey interactions. Temporary resource roads not be involved in future extraction activities and without licensee obligations, are being identified for selected rehabilitation treatments. Rehabilitation treatments will focus on reducing road density, shortening sightlines, and impeding the ease of travel for predators, while ensuring the regeneration of timber and carbon values. This 2-year project will identify candidate roads and other disturbance features, engage with the Province, First Nations and forest licensees, create site specific treatment standards and preliminary restoration prescriptions.
SERNbc uses three general criteria to select specific ecosystems for restoration activities, which include:
Vulnerable, degraded and damaged ecosystems are a high priority for ER activities if they have high functional importance in terms of providing important ecological services. This functional importance or management priority increases when the ER needs of a subject ecosystem is not being addressed by existing programming.
Potential ER projects must align with SERNbc’s objectives as identified in our strategic plan. All ER projects undertaken by SERNbc need to be supported by data and analysis that describes their current state, desired future condition, management objectives, and treatment rationale.
