Government Actions Regulation
Last updated on August 8, 2024Under the Forest and Range Practices Act, the Government Actions Regulation (GAR) directs how the B.C. provincial government establishes land designations or stewardship measures for forest and range values.
Types of decisions supported by the GAR:
- Decisions about categories of species, including
- Species at risk
- Regionally important wildlife
- Ungulates
- Decisions that trigger practice requirements for protection of
- Wildlife
- Resource features
- Wildlife habitat features
- Temperature sensitive streams
- Land use decisions for designating, managing, or protecting
- Wildlife habitat areas
- Ungulate winter ranges
- Community watersheds
- Fisheries sensitive watersheds
- Lakeshore management zones
- Scenic areas
Ministerial Orders
The actions covered by the GAR are carried out by public officials with ministerial authority.
Persons who are preparing an order for stewardship of a resource value under the GAR should consider the need for government action, and the potential interactions with other government actions, before submitting the order. Forest and range tenure holders who will be affected by an order must be provided an opportunity for review and comment on the proposed action.
Ministerial orders establishing designations for the special management of watersheds, fish and wildlife habitat:
- Community watersheds
- Fisheries sensitive watersheds
- Ungulate winter ranges
- Wildlife habitat areas
- Wildlife habitat features
Ministerial orders establishing designations for the special management of visual quality and resource features:
Coast Area
Campbell River District
Resource Feature (Recreation):
- Order to Identify Recreation Resource Features (PDF, 129KB)
- Shapefiles for Recreation Resource Features (ZIP, 31MB)
- Determination Rationale (PDF, 145KB)
Resource Feature (Karst):
Visual Quality:
Chilliwack District
Resource Feature (​Cultural Heritage):
Resource Feature (Karst):
Visual Quality:
North Island District
Haida Gwaii District
Resource Feature (Karst):
Visual Quality:
South Island District
Resource Feature (Cultural Heritage):
Resource Feature (Recreation):
Resource Feature (Karst):
Visual Quality:
Sunshine Coast District
Resource Feature (Karst):
Visual Quality:
Sea to Sky District
Resource Feature (Recreation):
Visual Quality:
North Area
Stuart Nechako District
Visual Quality:
Coast Mountain District
Nadina District
Peace District
Prince George District
Skeena Stikine District
South Area
Selkirk District
Visual Quality:
- Establishment of Visual Quality Objectives and Scenic Areas for the Arrow and Boundary TSAs (PDF, 159KB)
- Establishment of Visual Quality Objectives and Scenic Areas for the Golden and Revelstoke TSAs (PDF, 83KB)
- Establishment of Visual Quality Objectives and Scenic Areas for the Kootenay Lake TSA (PDF, 5.9MB)
Okanagan-Shuswap District
Resource Feature (Cultural Heritage):
Resource Feature (Research Area):
Cascades District
Resource Feature (Cultural Heritage):
Thompson Rivers District
Authority for decisions, duties and responsibilities required in natural resource legislation has been transferred to public officials through delegations, designations, appointments or deputizations.