Skeena Fisheries Commission (SKF) has conducted mobile hydroacoustic surveys in small lakes throughout the Skeena Watershed since 2005. The main objective of these surveys is to enumerate and sample the sockeye fry populations, and to estimate the species...

Meeting minutes/notes from Skeena Knowledge Trustee meetings in reverse chronological order (i.e. most recent at the top).

This dataset includes field sheets and the Certificate of Analysis for surface water quality grab samples. Five weekly samples were taken over a period of 30 days in spring and fall/winter of 2023 at Gosnell Creek, Shea Creek, Crystal Creek and Morice...

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is a world-leading ocean observing facility hosted and owned by the University of Victoria (UVic), and managed and operated by the ONC Society, a not-for-profit established in 2007. ONC delivers ocean data from its cabled, mobile...

This report discusses the Scully Creek Restoration Project, which involved improving access to quality spawning habitat by the removal of beaver dams and improved beaver management. Habitat complexity was improved through the creation of undercut banks and...

Drone images (Ortho, DSM, DEM) for effectiveness monitoring of a site on Maxan Creek in May 2022 that underwent streambank stabilization in the fall of 2021.

Portal accessing real-time water-related data, including dataset download, mapping, and creation of charts. Parameters include snow surveys, surface water discharge, groundwater levels, water temperature, air temperature, precipitation, etc. The SSDC houses...

Disclaimer: Water temperature is a Water Survey of Canada output, not a product. The data are provided as-is. We have no standard operating procedures for data collection or processing. This means that sensor selection, calibration, and placement are not...

In effort to ameliorate riparian vegetation and reduce streambank erosion on the Upper Bulkley River, Maxan Creek and Richfield Creek, willow cuttings were planted and streambanks stabilized on private land parcels along the banks of the river. Four sites...

This dataset comprises water temperature information collected from seven temperature loggers installed in the Morice watershed in 2023. Resources include a monitoring station map, raw water temperature data (csv format), and monitoring station information...

This dataset comprises water temperature information collected from 15 hydrometric stations in the Upper Bulkley River watershed since 2016. Resources include interpretative reports, a link to an interactive dashboard featuring the results, a monitoring...

Research article published in Global Change Biology by researchers from Simon Fraser University and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Manuscript describes the freshwater growth response of sockeye salmon rearing in unique lakes of the Skeena Watershed to...

This report includes the analysis of historical air photos to identify the location and magnitude of changes in channel morphology over time. The area of interest is the 25 km long section of Nanika River between Kidprice and Morice Lakes. This analysis...

1952 bathymetric map of Lake Kathlyn by the BC Department of Recreation and Conservation.

We examine the direct effects of multiple disturbance agents on individual tree development and stand productivity in 15–40-year-old managed forests in British Columbia, Canada. Our primary interest was to establish a baseline assessment of damage in these...

This is a historical guide documenting peak flow data from the early 1930s to late 1980s. This data for the region is presented tables, maps and graphs, and provides examples of estimating peak flows for ungauged basins using this information.

This report is a preliminary examination of environmental DNA collected in the Morice and Bulkley river systems through the STREAM (Sequencing The Rivers for Environmental Assessment and Monitoring) biomonitoring project. This report aims to highlight the...

The federal Wild Salmon Policy provides an excellent opportunity to both greatly improve salmon management and to achieve significant progress in meeting other ecosystem management commitments. So far, Fisheries and Oceans Canada staff have built a strong...

This report provides the B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks (BCE) with a review of cattle farming in the Skeena Region, and a recommendation for monitoring the impact of cattle and other livestock operations on community watersheds, including...

Watershed Management Areas (WMAs) at multiple Watershed Management Levels (WMLs) for the Babine River and Babine Lake Watershed Atlas Groups. Attributes for both atlas groups include Peak-Flow-Sensitivity (PFS) thresholds for risk categorization of...