Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Opasatika Proposed Site 4

Northern Livestock Pilot - Opasatika Site 4

Project Location and Site Description

District: Cochrane

Municipality: Opasatika

Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) Administrative Region: Northeast Region, Hearst District

Size of Proposed Pilot Site:

The total proposed pilot site is approximately 3,391 acres (approx. 1,372 Ha).

Forest Management Unit: Gordon Cosens

Sustainable Forestry Licence Holder: The current Sustainable Forestry Licence (SFL) holder is Rayonier Advanced Materials.

Roads: Fergus Road runs along the entire eastern edge of the site. This is not a year-round maintained road. There also appears to be some previously used, internal access roads. These may have been used to access the site for forest harvest and/or planting.

Watersheds: The site is within the tertiary watershed of Opasatika and the secondary watershed of Missinaibi-Mattagami.

Waterbodies: There are is one wetland in the northwest portion of the site and one stream that extends from the northern to southern edge of the site.

Agricultural Capability: The site is comprised largely of agricultural land suitable for livestock farming. Part of the site is comprised of organic soils, which are not suitable for livestock farming.

Crown Land Use Policies:

Crown Land Use Policy G1736, "Kapuskasing Resource Extraction Area" covers all of Opasatika Site 4. OMAFRA has submitted a request for review and amendment as necessary, of existing Crown land use policies to allow for agriculture to occur as a permitted use on proposed Crown land Pilot sites.

The table below provides an overview of current Crown Land Use Polices regarding agriculture for the proposed pilot site.

Crown Land Use Policy	Policy Details
G1736, "Kapuskasing Resource Extraction Area"	Activity: Crown Land Disposition, Agriculture Permitted: No Guidelines: Crown land will be disposed of in this area only to facilitate expansion of existing adjacent farms.