Project Description:

This project will improve critical habitat for boreal caribou in Chinchaga range by restoring linear corridors, using techniques such as mounding, seeding, planting, and visual barriers. Through previous Habitat Stewardship Program (HSP) funding in 2017-2018, Blueberry River First Nation identified priority locations and developed initial plans for habitat restoration to support boreal caribou recovery. This project will allow Blueberry River First Nation to refine initial site selections, finalize habitat restoration plans, and implement on-the-ground habitat restoration work in these previously-identified areas and monitor vegetation regrowth and wildlife use in restored areas to assess project success. Community members will be trained on monitoring and habitat restoration techniques, building capacity within the community to conduct further habitat restoration work in the future.

Project Outcomes or Intended Outcomes:

• Conservation planning (identify restoration sites: target of up to 10 segments of linear corridors, up to 5 km in length each)
• Land management (habitat restoration)
• Monitor (restored areas)
• Training and capacity building (train community members in monitoring and habitat restoration)

Project Description:

Dismantling 30 km of forest roads. They test different techniques including soil preparation and planting trees. It was to test the operational feasibility and identify cost.

Project Location: North Shore region (100 km northwest of Tadoussac)

Project Description:

Dismantling 20 km of forest roads.  Soil decompaction, watercourse crossing removal, black spruce plantation.

Project Location: Parc National de la Gaspésie

Project Outcomes or Intended Outcomes: Habitat restoration.

Project Description:

Defined the roads network that be can dismantling with all the issues on territory (strategic road, cabins access, future forest managing activities, etc.).

Project Outcomes or Intended Outcomes:

Map of potential road that can be dismantling.

Project Description:

Dismantling 76.5 km of forest roads. We test different techniques including soil preparation, water course crossing removing and planting four species of trees. It was to test the operational feasibility and identify cost.

Project Location: North Shore region (160 km north of Baie-Comeau)

Project Outcomes or Intended Outcomes:

The operational feasibility was valid. The cost of dismantling forest roads was around $5000-$6000 by km.

Project Description:

The Regional Industry Caribou Collaboration (RICC) is a group of energy and forestry companies who support caribou recovery efforts in the Cold Lake, East Side of the Athabasca River (ESAR) and Saskatchewan boreal plains caribou ranges. The group recognizes that the success of caribou recovery requires coordination and cooperation between each member, because caribou are wide-ranging animals whose annual home ranges cross many industry leases and land-use types. RICC is a leader when it comes to supporting research to understand caribou declines and testing ways to recover populations.

Project Outcomes or Intended Outcomes:

Program Goal:
To participate in collaborative research and active, science-based adaptive management activities within the defined ESAR and Cold Lake caribou ranges.

Objectives:

• Coordinate industry restoration of disturbance in priority areas;
• Support and lead scientific research on caribou ecology and on caribou-predator-landscape relationships to identify priority issues and/or priority areas; and
• Support and lead investigative trials on restoration methods, effectiveness and wildlife responses, to assess the effectiveness of treatments and make recommendations for broader implementation.