Description: Shows conservation areas with legal protection, either by the Province (Provincial Parks, Conservancies, Wildland Zones, Old-Growth Management Areas, and Ungulate Winter Range) or RMOW (PAN1, LCB1, LP2 zoning). Note that levels of protection vary, even within these designations. There are other land-based designations, e.g., Wildlife Habitat Areas, that prescribe if and how logging and other activities can occur. Since they are a lower overall level of protection, they are not included here.
One exception shown on this map is Ungulate Winter Range (UWR) for mountain goats. Since most of the mapped areas are enclosed within other designations (e.g., Wildland Zone and/or OGMA), they have been included. The main purpose of that inclusion relates to winter recreational use, especially in the Rainbow/Sproatt area and related Twentyone-mile Creek drainage.