Purpose

Dwarf Dogwood (Bunchberry)     Sleeping Chief Mountain in Fall

The Muskwa-Kechika Management Area is intended to establish a world standard for environmental sustainability and economic stability, serving as a model that balances human activities such as resource extraction and tourism with conserving its environmental values and wilderness state over time.

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, including recreation, hunting, trapping, timber harvesting, mineral exploration and mining, and oil and gas exploration and development."
(M-KMA Act)

The M-KMA has local, regional, national and global significance. By designating this unique area for innovative management, British Columbians are playing a role in preserving wilderness and increasing protected areas, while simultaneously securing access to natural resources and creating a positive climate for long-term investments in British Columbia.
 

To Realise the Objectives of the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area
The LRMP tables recommended that the Muskwa-Kechika, while being managed by the BC government, should be overseen by an Advisory Board, and that a special trust fund should be created to support special projects, research and planning initiatives within the M-KMA. The M-KMA Act, S.9 established both the Advisory Board and the Trust Fund in legislation.