Location of the Proposed Fort Xxxxxx Community Forest Sample Clauses

Location of the Proposed Fort Xxxxxx Community Forest. The Fort Xxxxxx TSA is the second largest TSA in British Columbia and covers an area of almost 9.9 million hectares in the north-eastern corner of the province, within the Northeast Natural Resource Region (Map 2). The TSA is bordered to the east by Alberta, to the north by the Northwest Territories and the Yukon Territory, to the west by the Cassiar TSA and the Rocky Mountains, and to the south by the Fort St. Xxxx and Mackenzie TSAs. The TSA is administered from the Fort Xxxxxx Natural Resource District office in Fort Xxxxxx. The Fort Xxxxxx Natural Resource District, which encompasses the Fort Xxxxxx TSA, is located entirely in the Boreal forest. Forests in this area consist mainly of old and mature stands of spruce, pine, aspen, cottonwood, and birch, in a wide variety of landscapes. The topography of the TSA forms a gradient of increasing relief from east to west, encompassing parts of the Alberta plateau, the Rocky Mountain Foothills, the Liard Plateau, the Liard Plain, the Kechika River Valley and a portion of the Cassiar Mountains. The entire region lies within the Arctic watershed and is largely drained by the Liard River and its major tributaries, including the Fort Xxxxxx, Prophet, Muskwa, Toad, Kechika and Petitot rivers. Three biogeoclimatic zones occur in the TSA: the Boreal-White-and-Black-Spruce (BWBS), which is the dominant zone covering about two-thirds of the total TSA land base; the Spruce-Willow-Birch (SWB); and the Alpine Tundra (AT). The BWBS zone is very important for wintering ungulates; frequent forest fires over the years have formed a mosaic of upland forests of different ages, providing a variety of habitats. The zone has the least snowfall of all the northern zones in BC. The extensive deciduous forests, which frequently achieve advanced ages here, are important for ungulates, birds and small mammals. While the severe climate of this TSA does limit wildlife occurrence in some isolated portions or at certain times of year, the TSA contains vast tracts of relatively undeveloped land that support abundant, diverse and internationally significant wildlife populations. Large mammals, including moose, black bear and grizzly bear, are common, as are smaller furbearers such as wolverine, wolf, lynx, weasel, mink, river otter, beaver and coyote. The TSA also contains a unique range of bird species including the Bay-breasted Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Connecticut Warbler, Xxxxxx’x Xxxxx-Tailed Sparrow, Trum...