Recommended Wildlife Land Use Guidelines
Last Review/Updated: September 12, 2007
The guidelines posted at this web site reflect current recommendations of the Fish and Wildlife Division of Alberta Sustainable Resource Development. They have been developed for selected wildlife species, species groups and ecological regions of the province to assist land managers, land owners and land users in avoiding or minimizing potential adverse impacts to wildlife from various land use activities.
The guidelines are primarily targeted to specific wildlife key areas/sites that play an essential role in ensuring the continued survival of local and regional populations of the identified wildlife species or species group. The location of wildlife key areas/sites is shown on wildlife land use referral maps available through regional offices of the Lands and Forest Division or Fish and Wildlife Division. In some cases, certain referral maps may be available from commercial sources. [Go to Land Classification and Boundary Changes for map availability and Areas for Area office locations and contacts.]
These guidelines are either provincial or regional in scope and should be applied with judgement that considers the specific physical and vegetative characteristics of an area/site, as well as the types of existing land uses at and adjacent to the area/site.
Provincial land managers (i.e., Forestry Division and Lands Division of Alberta Sustainable Resource Development) will consider these guidelines and may incorporate them into land use dispositions on provincial Crown lands. However, because wildlife are the property of the Crown, irrespective of whether they occur on publicly- or private-owned land, private land owners and businesses/companies operating on private lands should also be familiar with these guidelines and make use of them where and as appropriate.
These guidelines are subject to review and refinement on an ongoing basis, and may still be in the form of draft working guidelines, awaiting ratification as formal department policy. Comments on the substance of these guidelines and requests for further information may be submitted to the Head, Resource Integration and Planning Section, Fish and Wildlife Division in Edmonton at 780-427-7581.
Land Use Guidelines
Recommended Land Use Guideline for:
Habitat Suitability Model Search Tool
Key Ungulate Areas (Sept. 29, 2000)
Trumpeter Swan (October 30, 2001)
Mountain Goat and Bighorn Sheep Ranges (May 23, 2001)
Wildlife Referral - Land Use Activities in Clearwater Area of the Southwest Region - DRAFT
Wildlife Referral - Land Use Activities in Areas 3 and 4 of the Southwest Region
Wildlife Referral - Land Use Activities in Smoky Area of the Northwest Region
Additional Guidelines
Additional Guidelines
Additional wildlife land use guidelines can be found within other
published guideline documents that can be found at other web sites,
as identified below:
Alberta Timber Harvest Planning and Operating Ground Rules (1994)
Forest Management Herbicide Reference Manual (2004)
Strategic Plan and Industrial Guidelines for Boreal Caribou Ranges in Northern Alberta
