Agreement balances jobs, land protection
Channel: GovernmentofBC
Date: 2011-07-19

Premier Christy Clark and Spokesperson John Ward from the Taku River Tlingit First Nation signed an agreement creating 13 new protected areas, and providing resource development opportunities and investment certainty over three million hectares/11,583 sq. mi. in northwestern B.C.

News release: http://www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2011/07/jobs-and-land-protection-balanced-in-new-agreement.html

Learn more about the land and resource management and shared decision-making agreement: http://www.newrelationship.gov.bc.ca/agreements_and_leg/engagement.html.

View a map of the area showing the Land Use Plan: 
http://www.ilmb.gov.bc.ca/slrp/lrmp/smithers/atlin_taku/index.html.

See photos of the Atlin Taku region on Flickr: 
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjtWoHfT

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