Wildlife Resource Value Team 2006/7 activities for Wildlife Habitat Areas (WHA) and Ungulate Winter

Ranges (UWR)

Wayne Erickson (MOFR) and Kathy Paige (MOE) Co-chairs

P= Pilot testing; B= Baseline; I= Implementation; p- part of range; a- all of range.

Level- type Designation

Species status

Strategy WHA IWMS draft

UWR ungulates draft

Project charters

WHA IWMS complete

UWR ungulates complete

Coordination, work group formation

UWR ungulates initiated

WHA tailed frog initiated

WHA gopher snake

initiated

Questions, indicators and methods

WHA Tiger Salamander (CA see ahead)

planned

WHA Marbled Murrlet

some progress

Protocol development

WHA Coastal tailed frog

routine

WHA Badger routine, extensive

WHA Marbled murrelet

routine

UWR Mt Goat routine

Routine WHA Gopher snake (work group)

IBa

WHA Marbled murrelet

IBp

WHA Badger IBp

UWR Mt Goat IBp

Extensive WHA Gopher snake

PBp

WHA Badger PBp

UWR Mt Goat IBp

Intensive (opportunistic)

WHA (one) gopher snake

ongoing year one

Conservation Analysis

WHA Tiger Salamander

to be completed

WRVT Update 2006/7 Project Highlights

Routine* GIS analysis

Extensive* Intensive Conservation Analysis

Coastal tailed frog

Cascades WHAs

Marbled Murrelet

Bunster Landscape Unit (5 WHAs)

Mountain Goat

coastal (Potato Creek, Jervis Inlet) UWR's

same two areas

interior (Sitkum Creek east of Sugar Lake in the Monashees) UWR's

Routine* GIS analysis

Extensive*

Intensive Conservation Analysis

Badger East Kootenay WHA's

same area

Gopher snake*

Okanagan WHA's

same area M.Sc. telemetry study (MOE)

Tiger Salamander

South Okanagan WHA's

*Gopher snake: Protocol still not complete. Den monitoring have been applied. Visual obscurity method still under development. Intensive project has an opportunistic basis.