Orders for UWR, WHA and Land Use Objectives Rob Stewart, Ecosystems Biologist Darcy Peel, Land & Resource Specialist

Wildlife Habitat Areas Focus on practice requirements (General Wildlife Measures) Williamson’s sapsucker Rattlesnakes and gopher snakes Bighorn sheep Lewis’ woodpecker Spadefoot toad Tiger salamander Western screech-owl

UWR, WHA in Okanagan Shuswap Mule deer Mountain goat Moose Mountain caribou

GAR Orders Okanagan Shuswap Region Species Planning Unit Forest District Hectares Okanagan Mule Deer Okanagan TSA, TFL 15, 35 & 49 Okanagan-Shuswap 397,398 Mountain Caribou Revelstoke Shuswap and South Monashee Planning Units 178,706 Goat 49,822 Moose 231,168

UWR Orders Address impacts from primary forestry activities Retention of snow interception cover Access restrictions to manage winter disturbance Silviculture systems to manage cover and forage

Land Use Orders – LRMP Elk areas – congregation areas, movement corridors between summer and winter ranges Bighorn Sheep areas – conserving suitability of habitat that is not in mule deer UWR for SIC, thermal and security Williamsons Sapsucker – conserve critical breeding habitat Marten areas – maintain forage, cover and connectivity Fisher areas – maintain forage, cover and connectivity

Potential UWR orders - Forage Primarily effects from livestock forage use Forage availability, displacement, disease Bighorn sheep Mule deer Mountain goat Moose Potential Livestock effects on ungulate forage Bighorn Sheep Primarily grass/forbs Reduction in overall winter forage availability Particular reduction in available forage (bunchrasses) above snowpack. Displacement from range in late winter/early spring/lambing Disease Transmission from domestic sheep, goats and exotics Mule Deer, Goats Reduction in winter forage availability Displacement in fall/winter/spring Moose Winter forage reduction by summer/fall livestock use

South Area Mule Deer UWR GAR Review Darcy Peel, Land & Resource Specialist