Title
WCS Canada Comments - RMP in Support of Woodland Caribou Conservation and Recovery - September 2013
Author(s)
Justina Ray
Published
2016
Publisher
[Correspondence]
Abstract
With the development of the Caribou Conservation Plan in 2009, Ontario acknowledged the need to manage and limit cumulative disturbance at the scale of local population ranges of caribou, but no details were provided on how the MNR would implement the necessary landscape-scale cumulative effects management beyond measuring and tracking effects. However, the current Range Management Policy (RMP) provides only limited and vague direction for how the MNR intends to manage and limit cumulative disturbances within woodland caribou population ranges in Ontario. Our main concerns about the current RMP include: a lack of mechanisms to coordinate decision making at the range scale; lack of direction on limiting new disturbance; reliance on mitigation rather than limitation of disturbance; and, an overemphasis on habitat components that don’t incorporate the entire range. The RMP should articulate a clear process and mechanism for how the MNR will coordinate decision-making at scales appropriate for caribou and establish limits to new disturbance.
Full Citation
[Correspondence] Ray, Justina (2016). Development of a Range Management Policy in support of Woodland Caribou (Forest-dwelling boreal population) Conservation and Recovery in Ontario (Ontario EBR Registry Number: 011-9448)
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