Land use changes and developments have led to a loss of natural estuarine habitat in British Columbia. Agriculture, forestry, and dredging for commercial and residential development have all contributed to the loss. It is anticipated that the pressure to...

BERDI – a data bank for Biophysical, (Socio)Economic, and Regional Data and Information (pronounced “birdie”) - was created to make data collected by the Canada Energy Regulator (CER) more accessible to the public. Since 1965, the CER has collected...

Co-delivered by Living Lakes Canada, World Wildlife Fund-Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and the University of Guelph, STREAM (Sequencing The Rivers for Environmental Assessment and Monitoring) is contributing to the better understanding of...

Water Quality Effectiveness Evaluations arose out of the Forest and Range Practices Act as a way of measuring the effectiveness of the Act in accomplishing its forest stewardship objectives. The field procedure for Water Quality Effectiveness Evaluation...

As early as 1970, and continuing into the year 1973, concerned citizens of the Smithers area brought to the attention of the Water Resources Services the fact that nuisance weed growths were occurring (and increasing) in Kathlyn Lake. In response to this...

This dataset contains a link to the Data BC "Forest and Range Evaluation Program Fish/Riparian Monitoring" page. It contains a series of pdf documents associated with the management practices and evaluation of the effectiveness of the management protocols.

In 2003, Fisheries and Oceans Canada personnel carried out a study of the limnology and fish ecology of Lakelse Lake. A similar study was also carried out in 1994. The focus of the study was on juvenile sockeye rearing habitat, which is the offshore portion...

Provides general information on estuaries and their importance.

Ecological interactions in the flooded littoral zone of reservoirs: The importance and role of submerged terrestrial vegetation with special reference to fish, fish habitat and fisheries in the Nechako Reservoir of British Columbia, Canada. This report...

This report addresses Stage II of the Watershed-based Fish Sustainability Planning process by developing the biophysical profile of the Morice Watershed. Stage II produced a biophysical and sociopolitical profile of each of the priority watershed planning...

The chemical, biological and physical characteristics of Lakelse Lake, B.C., were investigated during 1974-1975. This report also summarizes relevant fisheries - limnological information published on this watershed. The survey was initiated to help resolve...

GIS Shape files from the Bulkley Higher Level Plan Orders as they relate to the Lower Babine Watershed (Babine River).

This dataset contains eighteen reports initiated by the Babine Watershed Monitoring Trust between 2003 and 2013.

B.C.'s Watershed Restoration Program (WRP) was implemented under the Province's Forest Renewal Plan in mid-1994 in response to a historical lack of mechanisms for ensuring rehabilitation of logging-impacted hill slopes, riparian areas, and streams.

This guide presents a site classification and interpretative information for wetlands and related ecosystems of British Columbia. Site identification is based upon principles of Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification modified for wetland ecosystems.

The Wetland Stewardship Partnership (WSP) is a group of organizations and government agencies committed to wetland conservation in BC. In this document, the WSP proposes a comprehensive Wetland Action Plan to be implemented cooperatively by governmental and...

The purpose of the Project is to provide berthing and loading facilities for bulk liquid cargo that will be received via the existing rail loop on Ridley Island. Due to the shortage of market access, many products cannot reach international markets where...

This document contains information on the Level I Sediment Source Assessment. The Consolidated Access Management Plan (AMP) and the Interior Watershed Assessment Program (IWAP) reports are listed as Appendices II and VII under separate covers.

The Trout Creek Landscape Unit Plan (LUP) outlines the objectives and the strategies for the resource management of the Trout Creek and Toboggan watershed within the Bulkley portion of the Bulkley/Cassiar Forest District. The objectives address core...

The objective of the Maxan Lake multi-land use study was to examine the interaction between various forms of land use on an area having multi-use capacity. To this end, various studies were conducted to examine different aspects of this complex subject. The...