Complaint Investigation – IRC/217
October 2018

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. As previously recommended by the Board, government must take leadership on landscape level decisions. Given the type of large scale salvage that is continuing to occur in this area, government should ensure that harvesting and retention planning in such salvage scenarios is coordinated between multiple licensees with spatially-explicit legal direction for species at risk and monitoring to ensure that planning is implemented and effective.
2. Government should use the legal tools under sections 9, 10, and 11 of the Government Actions Regulation or Section 7 of the Forest Planning and Practices Regulation for species-at-risk to protect remaining important fisher habitats in the Nazko area and manage to restore the local population over time.

Responses to Recommendations
Closing Letter