Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (B.C.)

found: Work cat.: 2004463327:Can CIP data (Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (B.C.))

found: British Columbia Resource Management Division webpage, Feb. 22, 2005 (Muskwa-Kechika Management Area; in northeastern BC, south of 60th parallel)

found: Anderson, L. Mapping wilderness character in the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area, 2018:abstr. (Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (M-KMA) in northern British Columbia) pp. 5-6 (Written into law in 1998 by the BC government through the Muskwa-Kechika Management Act)

found: Muskwa-Kechika Management Area website, Apr. 10, 2019:home page (Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (M-KMA), situated in northern British Columbia, Canada; 6.4 million hectares) Purpose (The M-KMA intent, as stated in the M-KMA Act, is to: "Maintain in perpetuity the wilderness quality, and the diversity and abundance of wildlife and the ecosystems on which it depends, while allowing resource development and use in parts of the M-KMA designated for those purposes")

found: Muskwa-Kechika Management Area biodiversity conservation and climate change assessment, 2012:p. 19 (The Muskwa-Kechika Management Area (M-KMA); one of the largest, most diverse wilderness areas in North America)

found: International journal of wilderness, Dec. 2003:pp. 12-13 (Muskwa-Kechika Management Area; When the MKMA Act was passed by the government of BC in 1998, it formalized the creation of the largest conservation system in North America. When a third LRMP [Land and Resource Management Planning] region joined the system in 2001, the MKMA grew to 6.3 million hectares, or over 24,000 square miles; one of the few remaining large, ecologically intact, almost completely unroaded wilderness south of the 60th parallel)

notfound: Canadian geographical names database, Apr. 10, 2019;GEOnet names server, Apr. 10, 2019