1. Thompson Rivers District Visuals Direction

2. DTR Visuals Direction Sources
There are various sources of visual direction in the district:
Kamloops LRMP (Visually Sensitive Area)
FPPR 9.2 (Known Scenic Area)
DM established objectives (Scenic Area)
Relate VSA with KLRMP
Relate Scenic Area with FPC and FRPA
VSA across the district
FPPR 9.2 in north – old Clearwater Forest District
DM established – old Kamloops Forest District

3. Kamloops LRMP Visually Sensitive Area Inside and Outside
Higher Level Plan – Legal
The primary objective in Visually Sensitive Areas is to ensure that the levels of visual quality expected by society are achieved on Crown land in keeping with the concepts and principles of integrated resource management.
Areas outside the identified visually sensitive areas in the Kamloops LRMP are managed for landscape objectives as follows: alterations may dominate the characteristic landscape but must borrow from natural line and form to such an extent and on such a scale that they are compatible to natural occurrences.
Essentially the definition of a modification VQO at the time it was written
Interpreted as a minimum visual alteration across the KLRMP given it applied to what was at that time the non-visually sensitive areas
Created from pre 1995 version of visual landscape inventory, including some lakeshore management zones and lakeshore visual management zones

4. KLRMP VSA In and Out

5. Known Scenic Area Known Scenic Area - Legal
The known scenic area is a result of definitions found in the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act Operational and Site Planning Regulation Definitions Part 1 of 'known' and 'scenic area':
"known" means, when used to describe a feature, objective or other thing referred to in this regulation as "known", a feature, objective or other thing that is
(a) contained in a higher level plan, or
(b) otherwise made available by the district manager at least 4 months before the operational plan is submitted for approval;
"scenic area" means any visually sensitive area or scenic landscape identified through a visual landscape inventory or planning process carried out or approved by the district manager;
In this case, the District Manager of the Clearwater Forest District made available a visual landscape inventory carried out by him, in 1999, hence through the FPC we get a known scenic area. This is the same inventory that was used in TSR2, 3 and 4 and used in FDP’s and FSP’s since that time.

6. FRPA Transition FPPR 9.2
Section 180(c) of the Forest and Range Practices Act grandparents the scenic area established by the FPC.
180  Every area established or continued under the Code as ...
(c) a scenic area, ...
Given this circumstance, section 9.2 of the Forest Planning and Practices Regulation would therefore apply to the known scenic area and establish the objective set by government (OSBG) for visual quality as described in that section:

7. FPPR 9.2 9.2 (1) In this section:
"scenic area" means an area of land established as a scenic area under the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act on or before October 24, 2002 and continued as a scenic area under section 180 (c) of the Act;
"visual sensitivity class" means a visual sensitivity class established on or before October 24, 2002, particulars of which are publicly available in the Land and Resource Data Warehouse maintained by the minister responsible for the Land Act.
(2) The objective set by government in relation to visual quality for a scenic area, that
(a) was established on or before October 24, 2002, and
(b) for which there is no visual quality objective is to ensure that the altered forest landscape for the scenic area
(c) in visual sensitivity class 1 is in either the preservation or retention category,
(d) in visual sensitivity class 2 is in either the retention or partial retention category,
(e) in visual sensitivity class 3 is in either the partial retention or modification category,
(f) in visual sensitivity class 4 is in either the partial retention or modification category, and
(g) in visual sensitivity class 5 is in either the modification or maximum modification category.
There are no VSC’s of 1 or 5 in the inventory

8. FPPR 9.2 Visual Sensitivity Classes

9. District Manager Established VQOs
The District Manager of the Kamloops Forest District established visual quality objectives as of 2003
There was additional area identified beyond the Kamloops VSA, much associated with lakeshore management zones and lakeshore visual management zones, consistent with the agreements at the Lakes LRUP public planning table

10. DM VQOs

11. Bring it all together
There was a legal interpretation for the Kamloops Forest District that where two different legal visual objectives overlap (KLRMP and DM), managing to the higher objective would not create a conflict.
This same interpretation was applied in the case of overlaps with FPPR 9.2 objectives as well
Given that Modification from the ‘outside VSA’ is interpreted as a minimum visual alteration across the KLRMP given it applied to what was at that time the non-visually sensitive areas, then NVS or UA (unclassified area) identified as ‘M’
There is no VSC of 1 or 5 in the visual landscape inventory and there is no MM established by the district manager
VSC5 out of VSA = M as meeting M will meet MM (moot since there is no VSC = 5) – same for DM established

12. Bring it all together