Special Investigation – SIR/36
June 2012

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Government should develop and maintain a process for tracking OGMA values and incursions that can be updated by licensees or government staff.
2. Government should provide appropriate oversight of non-spatial orders (where non-legal OGMAs have not been identified) to ensure that required attributes are available on the land base and, if they are not, that required recruitment stands have been identified.
3. Government should create a uniform and consistent way of identifying and recording values within OGMAs and of making the information available to all Crown land tenure holders and agencies that administer those tenures.
4. Government should review the conditions of orders to ensure that, if fully exercised, provisions for harvesting or road construction do not materially alter the effectiveness of OGMAs.
5. Government should ensure all Crown land tenure holders are required to protect or mitigate the impacts of their activities in OGMAs.
6. Government should develop and implement a strategy to assess the effectiveness of spatial and non-spatial old-growth retention.

Response to Recommendations