Manage for old growth forests by retaining Old Growth Management Sample Clauses

Manage for old growth forests by retaining Old Growth Management. Areas (OGMAs), as identified on Map 1, and subject to the following: Timber harvesting and boundary adjustments are not allowed in OGMAs, except as necessary under a) or b) and only where these activities will not diminish the overall effectiveness of old forest conservation. a) Timber harvesting may be allowed for one or more of the following purposes, provided that a similar alternate area or areas is identified and reserved from harvesting in the same Landscape Unit/BEC variant unit as in the original OGMA, and provided that interior forest conditions are met: i. New road development and maintenance where no practicable alternatives exist, and subject to these roads being deactivated once operational activities are complete; or ii. To address a substantiated forest health factor within an OGMA, where this poses a significant and substantiated forest health risk to forests outside the OGMA and where harvesting constitutes an appropriate and effective control action; or, iii. To address a public or industrial safety concern, or an environmental hazard where no practicable alternative exists. b) Boundary adjustments to the OGMAs may be allowed, provided that a similar alternate area or areas is identified and reserved from harvesting in the same Landscape Unit/BEC variant unit as in the original OGMA, and provided that interior forest conditions are met. LS SRMP (May 4, 2007) Applicable area FDU 1 and 2.