British Columbia hunting seasons

Every boundary in Hunt traces to the authority's own published GIS. A drawn boundary is not a claim that rules inside it are certified; each species page says unit by unit which are.

• B.C. Reg. 76/84 (Closed Areas Regulation) PREVAILS over 190/84 to the extent of the conflict (s. 1.1). Its 254 live areas are encoded as 325 within-zone restrictions — 103 close a season, 193 forbid discharging with the season left open, 29 restrict ammunition — and they reach every British Columbia answer. None of them can be PLACED: 191 name only a Management Unit that CONTAINS the area, and 134 name no unit at all, so each resolves to MAY_APPLY and never to a decided answer. They therefore contribute nothing to coverage, by the rule that coverage counts deliverable answers rather than encoded records.
• The missing input is geometry, and it is a CONSTRAINT rather than a backlog item. B.C. Reg. 76/84 Schedule 15 carries 28 map references and the regulation's own note states the maps are “exempt from publication and may be inspected at the offices of the Wildlife Branch” in Victoria. There is no published version to licence, mirror or ingest, by the authority’s own instrument — so this is not a matter of searching harder. For the roughly 92 areas with neither a named unit nor a map reference, the only geography is metes-and-bounds prose about railway stations and highway centre lines, which is not a source of coordinates. An intentional, evidenced UNKNOWN.
• British Columbia's ammunition fact moved from a corpus KNOWN INCOMPLETE (190/84 alone) to a corpus COMPLETE with PLACEMENT UNKNOWN: the 29 ammunition areas of 76/84 are read and carried, and none can yet be placed. That is an improvement in the evidence and is not answerability.
• Legal hunting hours are read and cited (B.C. Reg. 190/84 s. 14 (1) — one hour either side, not the half hour three other provinces use) but no clock time is stated: British Columbia spans two time zones and the Peace River region keeps Mountain time year-round, so North Ground cannot establish the timezone at a point. The refusal is about the clock, not the law.
• Seven species only: ruffed, spruce and sharp-tailed grouse, rock and willow ptarmigan, snowshoe hare and black bear. Every other British Columbia species is UNKNOWN, and a drawn boundary is not a certified rule.
• The wave reaches 221 of 225 Management Units; the other four answer UNKNOWN rather than being assumed closed.
• Outside 2026-07-01 to 2027-06-30 the bundle is not certified, and a date there answers NEEDS_VERIFICATION.
• Two disputes with the 2026-2028 synopsis are unresolved by design and answer CONFLICT: the spring black bear closing date (regulation June 20, synopsis June 30) and a September 1-9 youth grouse season the synopsis prints and Part 1 of Schedule 8 does not list.
• Limited Entry Hunting (B.C. Reg. 134/93) is layered over general open seasons and is not evaluated; a unit no general-season row names is UNKNOWN, not CLOSED.
• Closures inside units that the regulation describes in words or on maps, provincial parks named in Part 2 and private-property-only seasons have no boundary North Ground holds; answers there are NEEDS_VERIFICATION.
• Deer, moose, elk, sheep, goat, caribou, bison, cougar, wolf, blue grouse and all migratory birds are not encoded.
• This page describes sport hunting seasons. It does not describe harvesting under treaty or Aboriginal rights, which is a separate legal context North Ground does not evaluate.

• Hunting Regulation, B.C. Reg. 190/84 (sections 1 to 19) · Government of British Columbia
• Hunting Regulation, Schedule 1 — Region 1 (Vancouver Island) · Government of British Columbia
• Hunting Regulation, Schedule 2 — Region 2 (Lower Mainland) · Government of British Columbia
• Hunting Regulation, Schedule 3 — Region 3 (Thompson) · Government of British Columbia
• Hunting Regulation, Schedule 4 — Region 4 (Kootenay) · Government of British Columbia
• Hunting Regulation, Schedule 5 — Region 5 (Cariboo) · Government of British Columbia
• Hunting Regulation, Schedule 6 — Region 6 (Skeena) · Government of British Columbia
• Hunting Regulation, Schedule 7 — Region 7 (Omineca-Peace) · Government of British Columbia
• Hunting Regulation, Schedule 8 — Region 8 (Okanagan) · Government of British Columbia
• British Columbia hunting regulations · the authority's own hunting page

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