Title
WCS Canada Comments - Whitefeather Forest Dedicated Protected Areas - October 2013
Author(s)
Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Justina Ray, Jenni McDermid, and Mohammed Alshamlih
Published
2013
Publisher
[Correspondence]
Abstract
The Whitefeather Forest Land Use Strategy was the first land use plan approved under Ontario's Far North Act, 2010. As such, the Strategy sets an important precedent for protected area planning in the Far North. We are pleased to see the prioritization of ecological integrity through both Ontario's Protected Areas and Conservation Reserves legislation and within Pikangikum First Nation’s Keeping the Land Land Use Strategy. We provide comments relating to species at risk, planning approaches for protected area design, and fisheries given the current management proposals for protected areas within the Whitefeather Forest. We identify several potential issues of new road plans on woodland caribou and other species at risk and highlight the need for a regional-scale approach to address ecological and cultural integrity. We also address adaptive management explicitly by encouraging more research and monitoring by Ontario. We also provide suggestions on fisheries management proposals and invasive species management.
Full Citation
[Correspondence] Chetkiewicz, Cheryl et al. (2013,Whitefeather Forest Dedicated Protected Areas – Cheemuhnuhcheecheekuhtaykeehn – Management Planning (Ontario EBR Registry Number: 010‐8821)
Access Full Text
Back
DMX3265400000