1. Speaker Notes: Objectives & Range Practices Under FRPA
Objectives and Range Practices under FRPA
& Objectives
Welcome & Introduction
Introduce yourself (if you are a new presenter).
Welcome participants to a discussion of range planning under FRPA.
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You have just learned about Range Planning & Practices legislation.
I will now discuss the Range Planning Process.
Although legislation always seems like a ball & chain, I do think that the new FRPA will allow for more flexibility in your management on Crown Range. Initially it will take more effort, resources, initiative on the range users part to get there but in the long run it will work better for most tenure holders.
The Focus is on Results

2. Speaker Notes: Objectives & Range Practices Under FRPA
Topics
Understanding range objectives and their linkages to range practices
Understanding range developments
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You have just had an introduction to FRPA Range Planning.
I will now discuss the objectives set by Government for Range and their linkages to range practices.
Each section is divided into two parts:
Objective: the objective as stated in the Range Planning & Practices Regulations; and
Practices: specific requirements set out in the Act or regulations to support this objective.
All range agreement holders must ensure range practices are consistent with all objectives.

3. Ensuring Consistency of Plans and Practices with Objectives
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Ensuring Consistency of Plans and Practices with Objectives
FRPA includes objectives pertaining to range for:
Wildlife habitat areas
Water Quality
Ungulate Winter Range
Biodiversity
Soils
Water
Wildlife (includes Species at risk, fisheries and sensitive watersheds, temperature sensitive streams)
Forage & Plant Communities
Fish
The goal of FRPA is to develop a commitment to good management practices among users of Crown range. Operations will be guided by the specific approved range plan strategies and actions, which must ensure consistency with the objectives set by government (OSBG).
The Government Actions Regulations defines the process of establishing other objectives and designations
such as for Community Watersheds.

4. Evaluation Tools and Measurements
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Evaluation Tools and Measurements
Soils assessments
Plant community seral stages
. Upland and riparian health
Ground cover
Range readiness measurements
Utilization (stubble heights)
Browse use
Water temperature and quality
These are some of the tools or measurements that may be used to determine success in achieving the objective for the range area under management.
These tools may also be used by the tenure holder

5. Speaker Notes: Objectives & Range Practices Under FRPA
Soils Objectives
Minimize sealing of the soil surface
Maintain vigorous & diverse plant cover
Minimize accelerated erosion
Minimize undesirable soil disturbance
Maintain ground cover
Minimize erosion/ compaction
Re-establish suitable vegetation after disturbance
Protect soil properties

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Soils Practices
Stubble height
Rest
Turn out
Requirement to revegetate exposed soil exposed
Stubble height criteria provides for carryover to retain litter to protect the soil surface and catch snow, as well as to provide for suitable habitat and forage for wildlife species.
Rest as part of your rotation allows for growth of roots and overall improved plant health
Turn out avoids weakening plants and compacting soil
Revegetation of exposed soil must be completed within 2 years (Section 41 RPPR)

7. Forage & Associated Plant Communities Objectives
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Forage & Associated Plant Communities Objectives
Maintain or enhance healthy plant communities, including vigor and cover
Maintain or enhance forage quality and quantity for livestock and wildlife
Recruit desirable plants, including through seeding
Maintain variety of age classes and structure within communities
Maintain or improve litter
Enable range users to be efficient and competitive
Appropriate grazing can have positive effects on plant vigor (encourages root and shoot growth) as well as on plant community composition
Use must be sustainable

8. Forage & Associated Plant Communities Practices
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Forage & Associated Plant Communities Practices
Timing of grazing
Range readiness criteria
Schedule allowing rest
Intensity of grazing
Stubble height and browse level
Duration of Grazing
Schedule
Some of the practices for Forage & Associated Plant Communities include
Appropriate animal distribution
Proper recovery time between grazing periods

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Water Objectives
Maintain or improve water resources
Maintain or promote healthy riparian & upland areas
Maintain or promote riparian vegetation that provides sufficient shade to maintain stream temperature within the natural range of variability
Maintain or promote desired riparian plant communities

10. Water Practices – Riparian Areas
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Water Practices – Riparian Areas
Must ensure the riparian area can:
Withstand normal peak flood events without experiencing accelerated soil loss, channel or bank movement
Filter runoff
Store and safely release water
Conserve wildlife habitat values in the area
You must ensure that your range practices do not result in a material, adverse affect on the ability of a riparian area to
Withstand normal peak flood events without experiencing accelerated soil loss, channel or bank movement; filter runoff, store and safely release water, and to conserve wildlife habitat values in the area
Specific practices may include considerations around:
Time of use
Level of use
Maintaining plant community
Rest
Practices relating to riparian areas also have implications on fish and water quality.

11. Water Practices – Upland Areas
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Water Practices – Upland Areas
Must ensure that there is no:
Acceleration in the rate of soil loss
Loss of the site ability for water infiltration
Reduction in the moisture storage, or
Decrease to the stability of the area
You must ensure that your range practices on an upland area do not result in a material, adverse affect on the upland through consideration of strategies such as:
Timing of use
Level of use
Maintaining an appropriate healthy plant community
Rest

12. Water Practices – Protection of Water Quality
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Water Practices – Protection of Water Quality
A range practice must:
Not cause material harmful to human health to be deposited in, or transported to, water diverted for human consumption by a licensed water user
Not damage a licensed waterworks or surrounding vegetation, soil or terrain
Be consistent with water quality objectives if they exist
Other practices:
Dead livestock in community watershed must be moved away from the stream (100m)
As well, for a community watershed, if water quality objectives are established for an area by WLAP, the range plan holder must ensure the range practice is consistent with the objectives.

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Fish Objectives
Conserve fish, fish habitat and aquatic ecosystems
Manage adverse effect of deleterious materials
There are linkages with objectives for water:
healthy riparian and upland areas;
water quality; and
shade and temperature.

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Fish Practices
An agreement holder must ensure that any range practice:
Does not cause material that is deleterious to fish or fish habitat to be deposited in, or transported to, fish habitat, and
Is conducted at a time and in a manner that will not:
Harm fish
Impede fish passage, or
Destroy, damage or harmfully alter fish habitat

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Wildlife Objectives
Maintain or promote sustainable, healthy, productive & diverse wildlife populations
Minimize disturbance to wildlife & their habitats during critical periods of use
Manage the risk of interaction between predators & livestock
Ungulate winter range
WHAs for identified wildlife
Critical periods of use may include during calving, breeding, nesting, etc.
Managing the risk of interaction may include removal of sick or dead livestock from the range, timing for specific areas of use, ensuring no calving on the range, etc.
Ministry of Agriculture has produced a BMP on this topic.
Ungulate winter range objectives may come into effect summer/fall 2004, which may create a circumstance for a plan amendment
WHAs will be made known through the MOF

16. Speaker Notes: Objectives & Range Practices Under FRPA
Wildlife Practices
Ensure Consistency with:
stubble height and browse levels
Ungulate winter range objectives and constraints
General wildlife measures
Resource Features and wildlife habitat features
Resource features and wildlife habitat features are defined in the Government Actions Regulation.
Resource features will be identified by the Ministry of Forests and include features such as interpretive forest sites, recreation trails or features, genetically improtant plants or trees, range developments.
Wildlife habitat features will be identified by WLAP and may include fisheries or marine sensitive features, a significant mineral lick or wallow, and eagle/osprey/or heron nest site; or a localized feature identified by WLAP as a wildlife habitat feature.
Utilization Criteria
If you are using Crown range to graze livestock, you must remove livestock at the earliest of the following:
the date published in your range use plan or range stewardship plan, if specified;
when the average stubble height is met, if specified in your range use plan or range stewardship plan; or
the average browse use levels by livestock is:
the percentage of the current annual growth (CAG) specified in the plan or
25% of current annual growth if the plan does not specify an average browse use level.
A holder of an agreement under the Range Act who grazes livestock must ensure that the grazing of herbaceous plants within plant communities by livestock does not occur at a rate or to an extent that, if continued, will result in deterioration of the plant communities.
Ensure a range practice does not damage or render the feature ineffective

17. Biodiversity Objectives
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Biodiversity Objectives
Conserve biodiversity
Maintain native plant communities
Encourage development of late seral plant communities or other desired plant communities
Maintain plant communities consistent with natural successional stages where forage is seeded on transitory range
FRPA definition of biodiversity:
“biodiversity means the biological diversity of plants, animals and other living organisms in all their forms and levels of organization including the biological diversity of genes, species and ecosystems.”

18. Biodiversity Practices
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Biodiversity Practices
Preventing spread of invasive plants by
maintaining a weed resistant plant community
Other measures such as removal of burs, and cleaning machinery
Maintain the required plant communities
Revegetate disturbed soils
As well:
Ensure you observe the specified levels of use, grazing schedule, range readiness

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Range Developments
A structure, excavation or livestock trail
An activity designed to:
Improve range condition, or
Enable more efficient use of rangeland
For the purposes of managing rangeland or livestock, a “range development” means:
A structure, excavation or livestock trail that is indicated in a range plan as a range development.
“Range development” may also mean:
an activity that is designed to improve range condition or enable a more efficient use of range land (such as prescribed burning or slashing of young trees).
In contrast, a “range practice” means:
The grazing of livestock, hay cutting or activities related to grazing or hay cutting that are carried out on Crown range or activities relating to the construction, modifying or maintaining of a Range Development by a range agreement holder.
Range Developments are very similar to the requirements under the Forest Practices Code.

21. Range Development Authorization
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Range Development Authorization
You must get authorization before you:
Carry out, construct, modify, or remove, damage or destroy a range development on Crown range
Store hay
The minister will consider the following questions in approving range developments:
Is the activity consistent with range plan?
Is the activity consistent with government objectives?
Will the activity adequately protect and conserve the range resource?
The minister may impose conditions for Authorization (including a security deposit).

22. Authorization of Range Developments
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Authorization of Range Developments
Must submit the proposal to the Minister
The Minister may require that the proposal be made available for review
The Minister may require security
The Minister may impose conditions
The minister may require you to submit the matter for review prior to Authorization. The steps in this process are:
Submit a copy of the proposal to the Minister (district manager), and go through a review and comment process similar to what is used for range plans.
 The minister may decide to refer the proposal to another person or agency (e.g. a licenced agrologist or WLAP official) for further input
 Review any comments received from the public or the referral and incorporate appropriate changes into the proposal
 Provide copies of comments to the district manager, along with a summary of revisions made to the proposal in response to comments.
The minister may approve the range development after reviewing the proposal and any revisions made through review or referral periods. Advertising is not required unless the minister specifically requests it.
The minister may impose conditions.
The minister may require security in the form of a bond.

23. Range Development Maintenance
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Range Development Maintenance
You are responsible for maintenance unless:
Minister waives requirement or order removal of development
Minister can grant exemptions:
Another person obtains authorization
Another person is required
Another person enters into agreement
Not in public interest to maintain
If a person does not hold a Range Act agreement, they must obtain the minister’s Authorization before performing maintenance on a range development on Crown land.
You are responsible for ensuring that any range developments on areas for which you hold a range plan are maintained, unless the minister waives this requirement, or orders you to remove the range development. The minister can exempt you from maintenance requirements if:
another person has obtained the authorization from the minister under section 51 (2) of the Act to maintain the range development,
another person is required to maintain the range development,
another person has entered into an agreement with an official designated by the minister to develop, maintain or remove a range development (referred to in section 118 (2) (a.1) of the Act), or
the minister determines that it is not in the public interest to maintain the range development.

24. Range Developments & Exposed Soil
Speaker Notes: Objectives & Range Practices Under FRPA
Range Developments & Exposed Soil
Must ensure any exposed soil is re-vegetated within 2 years
Ecologically suitable species
A person who constructs a range development, as part of the construction, must ensure that any exposed soil that will support vegetation on the area is revegetated within 2 years of finishing the construction with ecologically suitable species that in the minister’s opinion will grow to maturity in the area.
The minister may exempt a person from the requirements of subsection (1) if the minister is of the opinion that not ensuring that the area is revegetated is consistent with the objective set by government for soils specified in section 6 (2).

25. Working without Authorization
Speaker Notes: Objectives & Range Practices Under FRPA
Working without Authorization
If working without authorization Minister may issue order to:
Remove or destroy the stored hay or the range development
Restore the land under the stored hay or range development, or both, or
Repair or rehabilitate the range development .

26. Developments no longer required
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Developments no longer required
If range development is no longer needed, or is not effective, you may be required to:
Remove it
Rehabilitate the affected areas .

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