A Conservation Vision for Southeastern BC
The health of wildlife in the southern Rocky Mountains of British Columbia requires core protected areas where natural processes predominate and animals can live and breed in safety.
They also need to be able to travel and meet their daily needs between those areas, without being killed as nuisances or run over by traffic. An unparalleled opportunity exists to greatly secure the future well-being of wild animals in southeastern BC.
The following conservation vision can be achieved if sufficient public support is demonstrated:
- protection of 100,000 acres of the lower Flathead valley by adding it to Waterton Lakes National Park
- a legislated Wildlife Management Area that protects wildlife habitat values as the first priority, while accommodating other uses where possible on the remaining 350,000 hectares/925,000 acres of public lands in the Flathead, Wigwam, Elk and Bull watersheds
- an international agreement that commits Canadian and US governments to managing the international Flathead region as a whole
