Local Caribou habitat restoration projects receive over $14,000
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NORTHERN BC- 14 Caribou habitat restoration projects across BC received some financial support from the federal and provincial governments. More than $1.65 million is being given to projects aimed at increasing the number Southern Mountain Caribou, a species that has been dramatically decreasing over the last century, and is now on the Species at Risk registry.
Funding is being used in a number of ways, including planting trees to restore areas to a pre-disturbed state and blocking former roads and other linear features such as seismic lines to reduce predator access. The province says this work will help reverse the impact that urbanization, forestry, mining, oil and gas, and roadbuilding work, has on Caribou populations.
Many of the projects are located across the north, two of which are even right outside of Prince George. The Otter project, located about 86 km east of PG received a grant of $6,120 to restore habitat on a 7.5 kilometre road that was fragmenting high-value habitat for the Hart Ranges Caribou herd. This year’s grant is primarily for monitoring the completed restoration work. Additionally, $8,720 went to the Tumuch project 95km southeast of PG. The funding restored habitat on 12.4 kilometres of road to create a connected area of almost 70,000 hectares of high-value habitat for the North Caribou herd. This year’s grant is primarily for monitoring the completed restoration work.
Some other northern projects that are included are the Tweedsmuir Caribou Winter Range located 60km outside of Burns Lake and the Whitesail project 122 kilometres south of Smithers. The funding is distributed through the Caribou Habitat Restoration Fund from the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation.
