Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management - Wildlife/Habitat Inventory and Mapping

	Wildlife/Habitat Inventory and Mapping The majority of the Cariboo region's wildlife inventory and habitat mapping was historically done by the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Cariboo Region. Important supporting wildlife and ecological research plus adaptive management work has been done by the Ministry of Forests, Research Section, Cariboo Region. The Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection and the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management currently participate in wildlife/habitat inventory projects. MSRM is the lead agency for inventory and data management. If any data files cannot be properly viewed please contact the inventory specialist. Hardcopy versions of all reports are located in the regional MSRM office. Note: some information is confidential (e.g. grizzly bear locations, nest sites etc.) and has been removed from the reports posted on this site. The Ministry of SRM is involved in implementation and monitoring of the Cariboo-Chilcotin Land Use Plan. Considerable effort has gone into caribou and mule deer inventory and habitat mapping projects under the direction of the Northern and Mountain Caribou Strategies and the Mule Deer Strategy. Important modelling projects have been undertaken to clarify and define key elements of the Biodiversity Strategy. Cariboo Region Wildlife/Habitat Inventory and Mapping Projects: *Inventory* Butterflies and Larger Moths Caribou - Mountain Caribou - Northern Goshawk and Raptor Grizzly Bear Mule Deer Red- and Blue-listed Species and Identified Wildlife *Ecological Mapping* The provincial Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping (TEM) data warehouse contains all of the approved TEM projects for the region Stand Structure Mapping for Mule Deer Wetland and Broad Ecosystem Mapping for the South Cariboo Woodlots Association *Wildlife Habitat Mapping* Grizzly Bear - Quesnel Highlands TFL 52 - multiple species, rare ecosystems and rare plants Moose - High Value Wetlands *Inventory* Butterflies and Larger Moths Macrolepidoptera Inventory of the Chilcotin District. Aud I. Fischer, Jon H. Shepard, and Crispin S. Guppy. January 31, 2000 [1.0Mb] Chilcotin Moth database [MS Access 1.2Mb] Caribou - Mountain Summary of Mountain Caribou Surveys within the Quesnel Highland and Cariboo Mountains, Cariboo Region, up to and Including 2001. James Young and Nicola Freeman. Aug. 2001. Mountain Caribou Strategy Report, March 2000 Multiscale Habitat Modeling for Mountain Caribou in the Columbia Highlands and Northern Columbia Mountains Ecoregions, British Columbia Clayton Apps and Trevor Kinley. Mar. 2000. The Effects of Human Related Harassment on Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) Lara Webster for Jim Young. Aug. 1997 [209k] Appendix 1. Summary table of harassment literature reviewed. [99k] Early Winter Mountain Caribou Behaviour and Micro-Habitat Characteristics in the Quesnel Highland. G. Ashcroft. Apr. 1997. [269k] Caribou - Northern Northern Caribou Strategy Report, March 2002 Status of the Charlotte Alplands Caribou Herd. A Successful Short Distance Caribou Transplant. James A. Young, John A.Youds and Nicola L. Freeman. Dec. 2001. [194k] Multiscale Habitat Modeling for Woodland Caribou in the Itcha, Ilgachuz and Rainbow Mountains of West-Central British Columbia. Clayton D. Apps, Trevor A. Kinley and James A. Young. June 2001. [1.8Mb] Population Reports: Post Calving and Rut Surveys Snow Conditions on the Winter Range of the Itcha-Ilgachuz and Rainbow Caribou Herds from 1997-1999. Katherine VanSpall, Jim Young, Harold Armleder and Lara Roorda. Oct. 2000. [228k] Appendix A. Snow station data from the winter of 1997-98. [111k] Appendix B. Snow station data from the winter of 1998-99. [112k] Towards Integrated Management Solutions: The Itcha-Ilgachuz Caribou Project Radio-Telemetry Year Three Progress Report 1995-98. By James A. Young and Kerra L. Shaw, November 1998 Towards Integrated Management Solutions: The Itcha-Ilgachuz Caribou Project Radio-Telemetry Year Four Progress Report 1995-99. James A. Young and Lara M. Roorda, December 1999. [273k] Goshawk and Raptor Goshawk and Raptor Inventory in the Cariboo Region, 1996. Beak Consultants Ltd. Apr. 1997. [980k] Grizzly Bear Grizzly Bear Population Trend Monitoring Design Using DNA Methods for the Quesnel Highlands (TFL 52) Project [536k] Mule Deer Canim North Mule Deer Winter Range Horsefly Wetbelt Mule Deer Winter Range Study Stand Structure Mapping Red- and Blue-listed Species and Identified Wildlife Taseko Management Zone *Ecological Mapping* Mule Deer Stand Structure Mapping has been done for many mule deer winter ranges in the Cariboo Region. This type of mapping involves air photo interpretation of stand structure characteristics important to mule deer in this region. This is followed up with GIS maps. This product is used in the creation of MDWR Management Plans for individual winter ranges. Wetland and Broad Ecosystem Mapping for the South Cariboo Woodlot Association. Kristi Iverson. Mar.1999. [196k] Woodlot Mapping data. [98k] *Wildlife Habitat Mapping* Grizzly Bear Grizzly Bear Habitat Assessment TFL 52 Wildlife Habitat Suitability and Rare Ecosystem Mapping Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping with Wildlife Interpretations for TFL 52 Moose High Value Wetlands for Moose for the Cariboo Region For more information on wildlife inventory, please visit the following links: Wildlife & Wildlife Habitat Inventory Wildlife Habitat Ratings Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping and Wildlife Habitat Ratings - Data Warehouse Broad Ecosystem Inventory Species Inventory Database Resources Information Standards Committee Biodiversity and Wildlife in British Columbia Wildlife at the Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection in the Cariboo Region