Muskwa-Kechika Management Area
The Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (M-K or M-KMA) is a provincially-run tract of land in the far north of
provincial parks, 60% to become "special management zones" (where limited mining and oil/gas drilling would be permitted), and 15% to become "special wild land zones", where logging would be prohibited.[1] The original size of the M-KMA was 4,450,000 hectares (11,000,000 acres). However, in 2000, with the approval of the Mackenzie Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP), over 1,900,000 hectares (4,700,000 acres) were added to the M-KMA for a total area of 6,400,000 hectares (16,000,000 acres)—an area slightly smaller than the US state of Maine, or the entire island of Ireland, or seven times the size of Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming.[2][3][4]
Name and geography
The area is named after the
Boreal Cordillera Ecozone
.
Parks and protected areas
(with area)[5]
- Dall River Old Growth Provincial Park 644 hectares (1,590 acres)
- Denetiah Provincial Park & Protected Area97,908 hectares (241,940 acres)
- Dune Za Keyih Provincial Park & Protected Area347,789 hectares (859,410 acres)
- Finlay-Russel Provincial Park & Protected Area122,795 hectares (303,430 acres)
- Graham-Laurier Provincial Park 99,982 hectares (247,060 acres)
- Horneline Creek Provincial Park 298 hectares (740 acres)
- Kwadacha Wilderness Provincial Park 114,444 hectares (282,800 acres)
- Liard River Corridor/West Provincial Parks & Protected Area88,898 hectares (219,670 acres)
- Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park 1,082 hectares (2,670 acres)
- Muncho Lake Provincial Park 86,079 hectares (212,710 acres)
- Northern Rocky Mountains Provincial Park & Protected Area665,709 hectares (1,645,000 acres)
- Ospika-Cones Ecological Reserve 1,282 hectares (3,170 acres)
- Prophet River Hot Springs Provincial Park185 hectares (460 acres)
- Redfern-Keily Provincial Park 80,771 hectares (199,590 acres)
- Sikanni Chief River Ecological Reserve 2,091 hectares (5,170 acres)
- Stone Mountain Provincial Park 25,179 hectares (62,220 acres)
- Toad River Hotsprings Provincial Park414 hectares (1,020 acres)
Notes
- ^ "National Geographic Magazine". Archived from the original on November 10, 2008.
- ^ Muskwa-Kechika Management Area website
- ^ [1] "It encompasses approximately 16 million acres, making it about the size of Ireland."
- ^ [2] "Seven times the size of Yellowstone National Park, and only slightly smaller than the state of Maine,"
- ^ Muskwa-Kechika.com "Protected Areas" page Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
References
Vaillant, John (November 2008), "Northern Giant", National Geographic, pp. 136–51, archived from the original on October 16, 2008