Administered by: Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
Program contact: Dave Tudhope Telephone (250) 356-2728
The Crown Land Use Planning Enhancement (CLUPE) Program has been established to
augment the province’s strategic land use planning program. Strategic land use
plans are completed for areas across the province to resolve land use conflicts and
establish a system of broad land use zones and objectives for resource management
within those zones. This set of zones and objectives guides resource management and
use and helps to identify economic opportunities within the plan area. Strategic
land use plans are developed by key stakeholders and, wherever possible, First
Nations in the plan area. First Nations who do not directly participate are
consulted to get their input on resource use in the interim until treaties can be
settled. The province’s planning program also includes preparation of
landscape/watershed level sustainable resource management plans. These plans further
refine the broad objectives from strategic land use plans by providing more detailed
objectives to guide industry and agency activities in a plan area.
CLUPE funds are allocated to the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands (MAL) regional offices annually in accordance with their anticipated needs and are
managed along with base budget funds to achieve the following planning objectives:
Objective #1. Build land / resource planning capacity in the communities where
planning is happening, and develop local-level support for planning outcomes.
CLUPE investments will assist First Nations, local governments, stakeholder
organizations, and interested members of the general public to participate
meaningfully and effectively in planning processes that decide forest land use
priorities and objectives for their regions and communities.
Objective #2. Specify government’s objectives for Crown forest land and
resources.
CLUPE investments will, through integrated planning processes, define the
results that Crown forest land users will be expected to achieve over time. Clear
and measurable objectives for forest resources are essential for enabling
cost-effective implementation of the Forest and Range Practices Act.
Objective #3. Ensure that forest land planning decisions are based on sound
analysis and information.
CLUPE investments will be used, in part, to assemble essential information for
planning, through:
- acquisition and integration of resource inventory information (that is not
readily available through standard resource inventory programs), and
- evaluating options and implications using appropriate analytical
methodologies, and
- scientific research needed for supporting planning decisions.
These investments will help to ensure that planning decisions are as informed
and balanced as possible.
Objective #4. Ensure that strategic land use plans achieve their intended social,
economic and environmental objectives.
CLUPE investments will be used, in part, to implement, monitor and evaluate land
use plans-to ensure that commitments made in plans are being acted-upon, and to
assess the overall effectiveness of plans, as part of the cycle of continuous
forest management improvement.
CLUPE funding is instrumental in assisting with implementation of three regional
land use plans and 17 approved sub-regional land and resource management plans
(LRMPs). The funds are also crucial to supporting planning currently underway,
including completion and approval of four LRMPs and preparation of a number of sustainable resource management
plans.
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