Southern Rocky Mountain Management Plan

The Plan - Table of Contents

Part A - Executive Summary [PDF - 132kb]

Part B - Management Plan

1.0 Introduction [PDF - 132kb]

1.1 Plan Area/Geography (Map - 167kb)
1.2 Planning Context and Process

2.0 First Nations (PDF 113Kb) (Map - 124kb)

3.0 Subsurface Resources (PDF 149Kb)

3.1 Minerals and Coal (Map - 271kb) (Map - 285kb)
3.2 Oil and Gas

4.0 Forestry (Timber) (PDF 107Kb) (Map - 298kb)

5.0 Agriculture and Range (PDF 162Kb) (Map - 288kb)

6.0 Trapping (PDF 98Kb)

7.0 Recreation

7.1 Recreation Access and Development (PDF 294Kb) (Map 641Kb) (Map 486Kb)
7.2 Resident Hunting and Angling (PDF 294Kb)

8.0 Tourism (PDF 168Kb)

8.1 General Tourism
8.2 Adventure Travel
8.3 Guide-outfitting (Map - 328kb)
8.4 Angling Guiding

9.0 Conservation

9.1 Riparian (PDF 154kb) (Map - 333kb)
9.2 Old Growth and Mature Seral Management (PDF 164Kb) (Map - 349kb)
9.3 Wildlife Tree Retention (PDF 177Kb) (Map - 391b)
9.4 Wide-ranging Carnivores (PDF 127Kb) (Map - 2885kb)
9.5 Ungulates (PDF 125Kb)
9.6 Ungulate Winter Range (PDF 334K) (Map - 552k) (Map - 568k)
9. 7 Species at Risk (PDF 109K)
9.8 Access (PDF 95K)
9.9 Connectivity (PDF 133Kb) (Map - 6.5MB)
9.10 Fish (PDF 86Kb)
9.11 Grassland Communities (PDF 79Kb)
9.12 Air Quality (PDF 92Kb)
9.13 General Ecosystem Health (PDF 92Kb)

10.0 Water (PDF 151Kb) (Map 375kb) (Map 282kb)

11.0 Visual Landscapes (PDF 116Kb) (Map 312kb)

12.0 Heritage and Paleontological Resources (PDF 104Kb)

13.0 Communities, Settlement and Infrastructure (PDF 127Kb)

Part C - Plan Review and Monitoring (PDF 115Kb)

1.0 Role of Provincial Government Inter-Agency Committee (IAC)

2.0 Advisory Committee for SRMMP(SRMAC)

3.0 Plan Monitoring

4.0 Plan Review and Amendments

Part D - Operational Implementation (PDF 78Kb)

1.0 Agency Implementation Role

2.0 Private Sector Role

3.0 Public Role

Part E - List of Maps

Part F - Definitions (PDF 169Kb)

Part G - Action Plan for Ktunaxa Nation Participation in the SRMMP (PDF 67Kb)

Appendices
(Appendices 2-6 are included in the main body of the plan. All other appendices are provided on the website srmmp.htm)

1.0 Maps (maps not required to implement plan direction) (PDF 52Kb) (Map - 285kb) (Map - 322kb)

2.0 Plan Monitoring and Issues Potentially Requiring Plan Amendment (PDF 84Kb)

3.0 Potential Implementation Projects (PDF 137Kb)

4.0 Draft Terms of Reference for the Southern Rocky Mountain Advisory Committee (SRMAC) (PDF 117Kb)

5.0 Best Management Practices

5.1 Air Quality Management (PDF 141Kb)
5.2 Domestic Watershed Best Management Practices (PDF 236Kb)
5.3 Risk Assessment Procedure for Proposed Resource Development Activities above Aluvial and Debris Torrent Fans (D. Boyer) (PDF 505Kb)

6.0 Draft Statement of Commitment to Sustainable Resource management and Governance Principles (PDF 66kb)

7.0 Connectivity (PDF - 120kb)

8.0 Ungulate Winter Range report (PDF - 618kb)

9.0 Water Inventory and Water Allocation Strategy (PDF - 119kb)

10.0 SRMMP Anouncements - Backgrounder (November, 2001),News Release (November 15, 2001) and News Release (February 2003)

11.0 Terms of Reference (September 15, 2002)

12.0 Background Report (PDF - 283kb)

13.0 Open House Summary Reports - December 2001, September 2002, October 2002 (PDF - 367kb)

14.0 Focus Group Summaries - List of Attendees, session summaries and issues summary

15.0 Inter-Agency Liasion Group and Project Teams [pdf]

16.0 Public Review Summary Report (PDF - 166kb)

17.0 Recreation Management Strategy (PDF - 388kb)

18.0 Landscape Unit Summary of Issues

19.0 Socio-Economic (SEA) and Environmental Assessments (EA) - SEA Base Case , EA Base Case , SEA Public Review Draft , EA Public Review Draft

20.0 Kootenay Boundary Land Use Plan - Higher Level Plan

21.0 Kootenay Boundary Land Use Plan - Implementation Strategy

22.0 Subsurface Resources

22.1 Management of Coal-Bearing Lands (PDF - 61kb)
22.2 Mineral Two-Zone System Brochure (PDF - 57kb)
22.3 Petroleum Resource Appraisal of the SRMMP Resource evaluation Area (M. Hayes) (PDF - 89kb)

23.0 Old Growth and Mature Seral Deployment Summaries (PDF - 16Kb)

24.0 Additional Background Support Documentation

24.1 Effects of Motorized Recreation on Grizzly Bears and rocky Mountain Ungulates: An Annotated Bibliography (PDF - 93kb)

24.2 Listed Vertebrate and Vascular Plant Species Occurring in the Cranbrook Forest District and in the SRMMP Area (PDF - 116kb)

24.3 Wildlife Tree Retention Methodology (PDF - 116kb)

24.4 Conservation - General Wildlife Conservation Considerations (PDF - 93kb), Guide Outfitting in the East Kootenays (PDF - 93kb), Riparian (PDF - 116kb), Ungulate Species of Special Significance in the Plan Area (PDF - 193kb), Wide-ranging Carnivores (PDF -219kb), Strategic Access Management Planning (PDF - 100kb), Expanded Conservation Definitions (PDF - 92k)