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Conserving Skeena Fish Populations and Their Habitat
/in Habitat, Land Use Planning, Skeena Watershed Fish Sustainability Plan, watershed planningAbstract This report constitutes the Skeena Watershed Fish Sustainability Process Stage I document. Conserving Skeena Fish Populations and Their Habitat describes the planning process that includes prioritizing and selecting sub-basins to review. A biophysical profile of the Skeena Watershed is given which includes an overview of the status of salmon and fresh-water fishes. The initial […]
Catalogue of salmon streams and spawning escapements of Statistical Area 4 (Upper Skeena River)
/in barriers, escapement, Geographical Distribution, Habitat, spawning groundsAbstract Catalogue containing each streams’s location, spawning distribution, barriers and points of difficult ascent, escapement records and other general data pertaining to the stream. The catalogue also includes a topographical map of the stream’s location and in some cases a sketch which further describes the surrounding area.
Skeena Sockeye Habitat Poster (medium resolution)
/in Conservation Unit, CU, Habitat, Strategy 2This poster is one of several products prepared in 2010 by Ecotrust Canada for the Habitat Subcommittee of the Skeena Watershed Initiative to compile and share existing sockeye salmon habitat data. Other products include an atlas of Conservation Units, a larger map of the watershed, an annotated bibliography, and electronic (PDF) versions of the printed […]
Hydroriparian Ecosystems of the North Coast
/in Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functions, Freshwater Ecosystems, Habitat, Hydroriparian Classes, Land And Resource Management Plan, Land Use, Landscape, LRMP, Strategic PlanningSummary This report provides background information on riparian ecosystems for the North Coast LRMP. The report describes North Coast riparian ecosystems, reviews riparian ecological functions, presents riparian management policies for BC and neighbouring jurisdictions, lists potential strategic planning issues for consideration. Literature is taken from the North Coast where possible. Where research is cited from […]
The effect of mountain pine beetle attack and salvage harvesting on stream flows
/in Habitat, Hydrology, Mountain Pine Beetle, streamflowExecutive Summary The Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) epidemic, and the large-scale salvage logging of beetle infested trees, are resulting in large areas of dead pine forest and clearcuts in watersheds across the central interior. These disturbances have potential effects on water yield (the total amount of water flowing out of a watershed in a year), […]
Managing Pacific salmon for ecosystem values: ecosystem indicators and the Wild Salmon Policy
/in Ecosystem Indicators, Habitat, Literature Review, Strategy 3, Strategy ThreeAbstract Canada’s Wild Salmon Policy (WSP) was released in June 2005 with a goal to restore and maintain healthy and diverse salmon populations and their habitats. Strategy 3, Action Step 3.1 aims to include ecosystem values in decision-making by proposing “ecosystem indicators” to monitor the status of freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. The scientific basis for […]
Annotated Bibliography: Resources Relating to Sockeye Salmon Habitat of the Skeena Watershed
/in Habitat, Literature ReviewThis annotated bibliography is one of several products prepared in 2010 by Ecotrust Canada for the Habitat Subcommittee of the Skeena Watershed Initiative to compile and share existing sockeye salmon habitat data. Other products include an atlas of Conservation Units, a larger map of the watershed, an annotated bibliography, and electronic (PDF) versions of the […]
Habitat-Based Abundance Benchmarks for Lake Sockeye CU’s in the Skeena Watershed
/in Benchmarks, Habitat, Juvenile Abundance, Sockeye, Strategy 1This report describes the results of a habitat-based assessment of the Skeena lake sockeye CUs to evaluate stock status and develop benchmarks for Skeena sockeye. Introduction Although stock-recruit analysis has been the main method for establishing benchmarks for lake sockeye Conservation Units (CU’s) in the Skeena watershed to date (Korman and Cox-Rogers 2012), habitat-based abundance […]
Implementing adaptive management through the North Coast LRMP
/in Adaptive Management, Habitat, Land And Resource Management Plan, Land Use PlanningSummary Ecological and social systems are complex, dynamic and inherently unpredictable. It can be extremely difficult to predict what will happen if we follow a certain pathway, or which of several possible pathways will lead us to our goal. Developing an LRMP is particularly challenging because we are dealing with a large landbase, multiple objectives […]
Coalbed Methane and Salmon: Assessing the Risks
/in CBM, coalbed methane, Cumulative Impacts, Habitat, Hydrology, Pembina Institute, ShellExecutive Summary GW Solutions Inc. (GW Solutions) was commissioned by the Pembina Institute to prepare a preliminary assessment of potential impacts on salmon and salmon habitat of coalbed methane (CBM) development. The focus was specifically on a tenure held by Shell Canada Limited (Shell) in the Klappan region of northwest British Columbia (the Shell Tenure). […]