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Deh Cho
Land Use
Planning
Regional
Forum
Hay River, NWT
2005
Bill Carpenter, Tony
Iacobelli, Freya
Nales
General Support
 Scope and design of Conservation Zones
 Link of Conservation Zones to PAS
 Description of compatible land uses in respective zones
 Definition of cumulative effects thresholds
General Considerations
 Specific agencies and authorities responsible for ensuring
conformity to the Plan
 Conservation significance of Falaise Lake
Legal and Policy Basis
 Interim Measures Agreement
 Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act
 Species at Risk Act
 Convention on Biological Diversity
 Kyoto Protocol
Land Use Zones
 Exclusions based on development interest or development
potential
– document consequences such as reduced hunting/trapping
opportunities or reduced focal species habitat
 Purpose of conservation zones
– specific targets as well as temporary protection
 Special Management Zones 25 and 27
– reconsider portions of these as Conservation Zones based on diversity
of large mammal species and other ecological attributes
Terms and
Cumulative Effects Thresholds
 Conformity requirements
 Enforcing terms
– more specific references to authorities and agencies, including any new
agencies that may be recommended
 Provision for ensuring new information is documented,
such as for Traditional Knowledge
 Minimum Core Area
 Minimum Patch Size
Land Use Summaries
 Map 4 – Additive ecological and cultural values
 Map 4 – Additional conservation values
 Maps 5-9 – Land use map outcome for northwest part of
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Draft Policy Recommendations
 Take Only What You Need
– social perspective regarding education, training and infrastructure;
– ecological perspective regarding maintaining long-term supply and
precautionary approach
 Do Not Waste
– Provides a goal for management guidelines and best management
practices