##  [Recommendations and Proposed Contributions Towards a Caribou Conservation Plan: Pasquia-Bog Boreal Caribou Population](/resource/recommendations-and-proposed-contributions-towards-caribou-conservation-plan-pasquia-bog) 

organisation

[Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement Secretariat](/organization/canadian-boreal-forest-agreement-secretariat)

[Forest Products Association of Canada](/organization/forest-products-association-canada)

[WSP E&I Canada Ltd.](/organization/wsp-ei-canada-ltd)

 

 

projet

[CBFA/FPAC, Pasquia-Bog Caribou Conservation Plan](/project/cbfafpac-pasquia-bog-caribou-conservation-plan)

 

Resource Type

[Report](/taxonomy/term/38)

 

 

Author(s)

Al Arsenault

 

 

Auteurs

Al Arsenault

 

 

Contacts

[Al Arsenault](/contact/al-arsenault)

 

 

Resource Date:

July

2014

 

Page Length

50

 

 

The Pasquia-Bog boreal caribou (*Rangifer tarandus caribou*) population range straddles the  
Saskatchewan-Manitoba provincial boundary. The National Boreal Caribou Recovery Strategy  
portrays the Pasquia-Bog area as two separate caribou ranges: a potion of the Boreal Plain  
Range (SK2) and The Bog (MB1). The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) undertook  
an assessment of the Pasquia-Bog area to characterize the range using best available science  
and information. The process of developing a caribou conservation plan involves many steps.  
Initially, several guidance documents were reviewed to inform the development and structure of  
the caribou conservation plan. These documents included Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement  
(CBFA) guidance (Caribou Methodological Framework and Protected Areas Methodological  
Framework), the federal caribou recovery strategy, the federal critical habitat science review,  
and provincial recovery strategies (Manitoba and Saskatchewan).

Collectively the resulting data, analysis and model development were then used to inform  
delineation of a land management system. A land management system consisting of three  
zone types was proposed, with varying levels of recommended disturbance (zone management  
strategies):

1. Caribou Conservation Zones – caribou conservation emphasis.
2. Development Zones – ecologically sustainable economic emphasis.
3. Special Management Zones – intended either as a buffer between caribou conservation zones and development zones, and/or as movement corridors to ensure connectivity amount caribou conservation zones within the range and with North Interlake.