Kootenay-Boundary Land Use Plans

In 1992, the B.C. government directed that a strategic land use plan be prepared to identify a comprehensive and integrated vision for land and resource use in the Kootenay-Boundary region. Recommendations resulting from two land-use tables were used to develop the East Kootenay and West Kootenay-Boundary Land Use Plans released in 1995. These land use plans included commitments to refine the timber enhanced resource development zone boundaries and develop geographically-specific resource management objectives. The Kootenay-Boundary Land Use Plan Implementation Strategy was completed in 1997.

In 2001, selected provisions in the strategy were legally established as a higher level plan under the Forest Practices Code of B.C. Act. In 2002, this order was cancelled and replaced with new resource management objectives to reflect the required balance of social, economic and environmental values. Nine orders varying the objectives have been approved since 2003.  The Caribou habitat management objective (objective 3) was cancelled in 2009 to eliminate duplication or conflicts with the 2007 Mountain Caribou Recovery Implementation Plan, as well as caribou ungulate winter range and wildlife habitat areas designated under the Government Actions Regulation of the Forest & Range Practices Act.