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

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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