General Information

Purpose and Scope

The plan provides strategic direction for the management and use of all provincially administered lands and resources. Its purpose is to promote economic development, foster stable communities and protect major ecosystems in the South Chilcotin area.

Development Plan

Cabinet initiated the South Chilcotin ESP in November 1995 as a consensus-based sub-regional planning process consistent with the Provincial Land Use Charter (1992) and Land and Resource Management Planning: A Statement of Principles and Process (1993).

Area Description

Most of the South Chilcotin area is in the central and eastern Coast Mountains, but it extends to the Chilcotin Plateau in the north and the Thompson-Okanagan Plateau in the east.

Resource Management Direction

This plan has seven parts. Part 1 is the Introduction. Parts 2, 3 and 4 provide direction to sustain the economy, communities and the environment on multiple-use lands as well as protected areas. Part 5 describes plan monitoring, implementation and amendment. Part 6 explains terms used in the plan. Part 7 (Appendices) includes documents that supplement plan direction.

Regulatory Context

The South Chilcotin Land and Resource Management Plan is part of BC’s Land Use Strategy. The plan provides government policy direction on land use and resource management within the plan area for the next ten years (until 2014), at which time it will be reviewed.

The Role of Information

This strategic plan is based on the best information available at the time of writing. Some of it, however, is limited or incomplete.

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