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II. OBJECTIVES IN REGULATIONS:

These objectives are set in Sec. 149 (FRPA) of Forest and Range Practices Act, Objectives set by government (OSBG) and apply province-wide, and are the most general type of objectives:

"(1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing objectives in relation to one or more of the following subjects:

(a) soils; (b) visual quality; (c) timber; (d) forage and associated plant communities; (e) water; (f) fish; (g) wildlife; (h) biodiversity; (i) recreation resources; (j) resource features; (k) cultural heritage resources.

(2) In case of an inconsistency between

(a) an objective set by government prescribed under this section, and

(b) an objective referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of "objectives set by government" in section 1 (1), the latter objective prevails to the extent of the inconsistency."

Sec. 12 (4) (FPPR) Objectives in regulations must be consistent with any land use objective (LUO), otherwise, to the extent of any conflict, the LUO prevails.

• Sec 5 (FPPR), of Forest Planning and Practices Regulation, OSBG for soils for forest practices:
• Sec. 6 (FPPR), OSBG for timber
• Sec. 7 (FPPR), OSBG for wildlife
• Sec. 8 (FPPR), OSBG for water, fish, wildlife and biodiversity in riparian areas
• Sec. 8.1 (FPPR), OSBG for fish habitat in fisheries sensitive watersheds (Feb. 24, 2005)
• Sec. 8.2 (FPPR), OSBG for water in community watersheds (Feb. 24, 2005)
• Sec. 9 (FPPR), OSBG for wildlife and biodiversity at landscape level
• Sec. 9 (1) (FPPR) OSBG for wildlife and biodiversity at stand level
• Sec. 9 (2) (FPPR) OSBG for visual quality
• Sec. 10 (FPPR), OSBG for cultural heritage resources
• Sec. 6 (RPPR), of Range Planning and Practices Regulation, OSBG for soils for range practices:
• Sec.7 (RPPR), OSBG for forage
• Sec. 8 (RPPR), OSBG for water
• Sec. 9 (RPPR), OSBG for fish
• Sec. 10 (RPPR), OSBG for wildlife
• Sec. 11 (RPPR), OSBG for biodiversity
• Sec. 9 (WLPPR) of Woodlot Licence Planning and Practice Regulations refers to the established objectives for woodlots

Intent: Objectives in regulations are intended to provide goalposts for managing and protecting FRPA values. Results and strategies in operational plans must address and be consistent with these objectives. In addition forest stewardship plans (FSP) must specify results and strategies for other objectives such as land use objectives and objectives enabled in regulation.

Changing Objectives: New or modified objectives in regulation are established through the legislative drafting and amendment process. Objectives in regulations cannot be changed or alternatives proposed at a local level.

III. OBJECTIVES ENABLED BY REGULATIONS:

Objectives enabled by regulation are established by the appropriate Minister, or their delegate, for a specified area. These are the most specific of all objectives, although they are not stated in the regulations, the legislation gives authority to the Ministers, or their delegate, to establish them for various types of areas.

Legislation that gives authority to the Ministers, or their delegate, to establish objectives enabled by regulation: Part 9 (FRPA) power to make regulations

• Sec. 56 (FRPA), forest site, a recreation site or a recreation trail
• Sec. 149 (1) (FRPA), ungulate winter range, wildlife habitat areas and general wildlife measures
• Sec. 150 (FRPA), community watersheds
• Sec. 150 (1) (FRPA), watersheds with significant downstream fisheries values and significant watershed sensitivity
• Sec. 150 (2) (FRPA), lakeshore management zones and objectives
• Sec. 150 (3) (FRPA), scenic areas and visual quality objectives
• Sec. 181 (FRPA), grandparenting objectives
• Sec. 11 (FPPR), other forest objectives
• Sec. 12 (RPPR), other range objectives
• GAR Government Actions Regulation: authorization to take action:
  • Sec. 5 resource features & Sec. 19 transitions;
  • Sec. 6 lakeshore management and objectives;
  • Sec. 7 scenic areas and visual quality objectives; and the transitions in Sec. 17 visual class and Sec. 18 categories of landscape modification apply to continued visual quality objectives
  • Sec. 8 community watersheds and water quality objectives; and transitions in Sec. 16
  • Sec. 9 general wildlife measures;
  • Sec. 10 wildlife habitat areas and objectives;
  • Sec. 11 wildlife habitat features;
  • Sec. 12 ungulate winter range and objectives;
  • Sec. 13 species at risk, regionally important wildlife and ungulate species;
  • Sec. 14 fisheries sensitive watersheds and objectives;
  • Sec. 15 temperature sensitive streams

Establishment: The objectives enabled by regulation come into effect through government actions. In establishing these objectives, the appropriate Minister must:

• Identify the location of the objective and the date the objective takes effect,
• File the objective at the closest MoFR regional office (Nanaimo),
• Place a notice on the relevant Ministry's web site and in the BC Gazette.

The appropriate Minister may designate areas, establish objectives for these areas, and establish measures or features. The following Ministers can designate areas and establish objectives enabled by regulations:

• Ministry of Agriculture and Lands / Integrated Land Management Bureau (ILMB):
  • Designate Scenic Areas:
  • Currently* there are no designated scenic areas established by ILMB in the SIFD.
  • There are however, designated scenic areas established and grandparented by MoFR.
• Designate Community Watersheds:
  • A list of designated community watersheds for the SIFD can be obtained by querying of the ILMB (ex. MSRM) CW database site,
  • For more information visit the ILMB (ex. MSRM) Community Watersheds home page,
  • Currently* the community watersheds list for the the SIFD contain only watersheds established under Sec. 41 (8) & 41 (10) of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia.
  • For more details on the objectives follow the SIFD Water objectives link.
• Ministry of Environment: (MoE)
  • Establish Water Quality Objectives in community watersheds:
    • Objectives for water quality were established by MoE for the the SIFD area in Sec. 8.2 (FPPR) on Feb. 24, 2005, and they are effective immediately.
    • For more details on the objectives follow the SIFD Water objectives link.
  • Designate areas and establish objectives for Fisheries Sensitive Watersheds (FSW):
    • Currently* there are a number of designated fisheries sensitive watersheds grandparented in the SIFD,
    • Objectives for fish habitat and for fisheries sensitive watersheds were established by MoE for the the SIFD area in Sec. 8.1 (FPPR) on Feb. 24, 2005, and they are effective immediately.
    • For more details on fisheries sensitive watershed designations and objectives follow the SIFD Fish objectives link.
  • Designate Wildlife Habitat Areas (WHA) and establish objectives for these areas:
    • Currently* there are 10 designated WHA established in the SIFD
    • The signed designation orders can be downloaded from the FTP site,
    • For more information visit the MoE web site
    • For more details follow the Wildlife Objectives link
  • Designate Ungulate Winter Range (UWR) and establish objectives for these areas:
    • Currently* there are UWR established in the SIFD for:
      • TFL-25 Blk 1
      • TFL-44
      • TFL-46
      • TSA-Arrowsmith
    • For more details follow the Wildlife Objectives link
  • Establish categories of Species at Risk (SAR) for species that are endangered, threatened or vulnerable:
    • Currently* there are a number of species at risk in the SIFD as designated in the Order: Category of Species at Risk,
    • For more detail follow the Wildlife objectives link.
  • Establish categories of Regionally Important Species (RIS) where species are important to a region of BC and may be adversely impacted by forest and range practice:
    • Currently* there are no designated RIS in the SIFD
    • For more detail follow the Wildlife objectives link
  • Establish categories of Specified Ungulate Species (SUS) for which an ungulate winter range is required for winter survival of the species:
    • The designated specified ungulate species, SUS in the SIFD are listed in the Order-Category of Ungulate Species signed on May 3, 2004 by the Minister of WLAP. The order can be also downloaded from the WLAP site
    • For more detail follow the Wildlife objectives link
  • Establish General Wildlife Measures (GWM) for specified areas and categories of Species at Risk, Regionally Important Species and Specified Ungulate Species:
    • Currently* there are a number of GWM designated in the SIFD as part of the signed WHA orders (see FTP site).
    • For more detail follow the Wildlife objectives link
  • Identify Categories of Wildlife Habitat Features (CWHF) to protect certain bird nests, significant mineral lick and other localized habitat features:
    • Currently (Nov. 2004) there are no designated CWHF in the SIFD
    • For more detail follow the Wildlife objectives link
  • For more information on Identified wildlife management strategies visit the WLAP web site
  
  
• Ministry of Forests and Range: (MoFR):
• Designate and establish objectives for interpretive forest sites (IFS), recreation sites (RS) and recreation trails (RT):
  • Currently* there are designated IFS, RS and RT in the SIFD
  • For more detail follow the Recreation Resources objectives link
• Establish resource features:
  • Currently* there are a no designated resources features established in the SIFD
  • For more detail follow the Resources features objectives link
• Designate and establish objectives for Lakeshore Management Zones (LMZ):
  • Currently* there is one LMZ established in the SIFD for Blue Lake located in the TFL-44,
  • The LMZ listed in DM's letter dated December 30, 1997 is grandparented,
  • For more detail follow the Fish objectives link
• Establish Visual Quality Objectives (VQO) for Scenic Areas.
  • The established VQO for the Scenic Areas in the SIFD are listed in the MoFR Designation Letter dated November 13, 1998,
  • A key map representing the scenic areas and the identified travel corridors can be downloaded from the FTP site,
  • New visual quality objectives can be established only after ILMB designated the areas as scenic areas,
  • For more details follow the VQO objectives link.
• Ministry of Tourism Sports and Arts: (MoTSA):
• On January 1, 2006 the Ministry of Tourism, Sport and the Arts took over responsibility for forest recreation sites and trails from the Ministry of Forests and Range.

Intent: these objectives guide effective forest management, for specific resource values, at the local level.

Changing Objectives: Designations and objectives can be established, varied or cancelled by the appropriate minister. The Minister of Forests and Range can delegate these authorities.

GRANDPARENTED DESIGNATIONS & OBJECTIVES:

• Existing objectives established under the Forest Practices Code are grandparented to FRPA as objectives enabled by regulations
• Sec. 180 (FRPA), grandparenting specified designations :
  • "Every area established or continued under the Code as:

    (a) an ungulate winter range,

    (b) a wildlife habitat area,

    (c) a scenic area,

    (d) an emergency bark beetle management area,

    (e) a community watershed,

    (f) an area with significant downstream fisheries values,

    (g) an area with significant watershed sensitivity,

    (h) a lakeshore management zone,

    (i) an interpretive forest site,

    (j) a recreation site,

    (k) a recreation trail, or

    (l) a forest ecosystem network

    that was in effect immediately before the effective date is continued under this Act."

• Sec. 181 (FRPA), grandparenting objectives
  • "All objectives in respect of areas continued under section 180 that were in effect immediately before the effective date are continued as objectives under this Act."
• Sec. 182 (FRPA), general wildlife measures

  "All general wildlife measures that were

(a) established under the Code and the Code regulations, and

(b) in effect immediately before the effective date

are continued as general wildlife measures under this Act."

Cumulative Impact: When establishing objectives, the appropriate Minister, or delegate must consider the impact of the proposed objective on the provincial timber supply and cumulative impact on rights granted to timber, woodlot or range agreement holders.

Sec. 19, (FPPR) Division 2.1. Cumulative effect of multiple forest stewardship plans

For the purpose of section 9 [proportional objectives] of the Act, the minister may establish targets referred to in that section, if, where there are likely to be multiple forest stewardship plans within an area,

(a) one or more agreement holders may be unduly constrained in the specifying of results or strategies in the holder's plan unless targets are established under section 9 of the Act,

(b) the agreement holders within the area are unable to reach an agreement that would remove the constraints referred to in paragraph (a),

(c) an agreement holder subject to a constraint referred to in paragraph (a) requests the minister to act under section 9 of the Act, and

(d) the minister is satisfied that a fair and effective order can be made under this section."

New Objectives: Once a new objective has been in place for at least four months:

• New operational plans must contain results and strategies to address the new objective if applicable to the area under the plan
• Existing operational plans must be amended to address the new objective if applicable to the area under the plan
• The government can reduce this four month period for some objectives.

Because of the complexity of objectives that exist in BC, the ministries responsible for FRPA identified a need to examine the hierarchy of objectives that apply in planning areas and provide information to licensees.

FTP site for supporting documents:

• A collection of supporting documents can be found on the SIFD Objectives Matrix FTP site

The Objectives Matrix: contains various objectives and their hierarchy, specific to the South Island Forest District.

Other FRPA values: select form the list below:

• Objectives Matrix Introduction
• Objectives Set by Government for the FRPA Values
• Objectives Matrix FTP Site Content List
• Objectives Matrix FTP site

1. Soils
2. Timber including Forest Health
3. Wildlife
4. Fish
5. Water
6. Biodiversity
7. Cultural Heritage Resources
8. Resource Features
9. Recreation Resources
10. Visual Quality
11. Forage and Associated Plant Communities

Disclaimer: Please note that the government is under no obligation to develop or provide the objectives matrix to FRPA stakeholders. The matrix was developed to assist those who prepare operational plan with identifying objectives for which results and strategies must be developed within operational plans. The Ministry of Forests does not make any guarantees with respect to the accuracy, currency and reliability of the information contained within this objectives matrix.

It is the plan proponent's responsibility to ensure that all legal requirements are met.

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