Muskwa-Kechika Management Area
Template:Short description The Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (M-K or M-KMA) is a provincially-run tract of land in the far north of British Columbia. It has an advisory board that counsels the government on land-use decisions. Established by provincial government legislation in 1998, the area is meant to be preserved as a wild area, but development is not outright forbidden; the land is divided into different zones, with varying levels of protection, although the whole area is to be used according to an overall plan. The original concept called for 25% of the land to be turned into provincial parks, 60% to become "special management zones" (where limited mining and oil/gas drilling would be permitted), and 15% to become "special wild land zones", where logging would be prohibited.[1] The original size of the M-KMA was Script error: No such module "convert".. However, in 2000, with the approval of the Mackenzie Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP), over Script error: No such module "convert". were added to the M-KMA for a total area of Script error: No such module "convert".—an area slightly smaller than the US state of Maine, or the entire island of Ireland, or seven times the size of Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming.[2][3][4]
Name and geography
The area is named after the Muskwa River and Muskwa Ranges (from the Template:Langx, "bear") and the Kechika River and Kechika Ranges (Kechika means "long inclining river"). The area include the Northern Rocky Mountains to the north of Lake Williston and the Rocky Mountain Foothills north of the Peace River and much of the southeastern Cassiar Mountains and a small portion of the northeastern Omineca Mountains. With the southern Selwyn and Mackenzie Mountains north of the Liard River, the area defines the Boreal Cordillera Ecozone.
Parks and protected areas
(with area)[5]
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- Denetiah Provincial Park & Protected Area Script error: No such module "convert".
- Dune Za Keyih Provincial Park & Protected Area Script error: No such module "convert".
- Finlay-Russel Provincial Park & Protected Area Script error: No such module "convert".
- Graham-Laurier Provincial Park Script error: No such module "convert".
- Horneline Creek Provincial Park Script error: No such module "convert".
- Kwadacha Wilderness Provincial Park Script error: No such module "convert".
- Liard River Corridor/West Provincial Parks & Protected Area Script error: No such module "convert".
- Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park Script error: No such module "convert".
- Muncho Lake Provincial Park Script error: No such module "convert".
- Northern Rocky Mountains Provincial Park & Protected Area Script error: No such module "convert".
- Ospika-Cones Ecological Reserve Script error: No such module "convert".
- Prophet River Hot Springs Provincial Park Script error: No such module "convert".
- Redfern-Keily Provincial Park Script error: No such module "convert".
- Sikanni Chief River Ecological Reserve Script error: No such module "convert".
- Stone Mountain Provincial Park Script error: No such module "convert".
- Toad River Hotsprings Provincial Park Script error: No such module "convert".
Notes
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- ↑ Muskwa-Kechika Management Area website
- ↑ [1] "It encompasses approximately 16 million acres, making it about the size of Ireland."
- ↑ [2] "Seven times the size of Yellowstone National Park, and only slightly smaller than the state of Maine,"
- ↑ Muskwa-Kechika.com "Protected Areas" page Script error: No such module "webarchive".
References
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External links
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- Map
- Map of oil and gas tenures
- Map of mineral tenures
- Guide-Outfitter boundaries map
- Trapline Boundaries map
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