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Warning Signals of Adverse Interactions between Climate Change and Native Str...
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... -
Cranberry Sustainable Resource Management Plan
The Cranberry Sustainable Resource Management Plan (SRMP) is a landscape level plan developed to address sustainable management of land, water and resources in the Cranberry Landscape Unit which is described as Timber Supply Block G, a portion of Timber... -
Climate Patterns, Trends, and Projections for Omineca, Skeena, and Northeast ...
This document summarizes baseline climate, trends, and projections for the three natural resource regions within the North Area of the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (FLNRO): the Omineca, Skeena, and Northeast... -
Watershed Status Evaluation: An Assessment of 71 Watersheds Meeting BC's Fish...
This pilot project used the WSE Tier I GIS-based methods described in Porter et al. (2013) to assess the watershed indicator “risk” status of 71 watersheds across most of British Columbia’s natural resource regions. Measured values for as many as nine... -
Seymour Lake Excerpts from Targeted BC Aquatic Invasive Plant Inventories
The presence of aquatic invasive plants in waterbodies throughout British Columbia have caused significant ecological and economic damage. Targeted aquatic invasive plant inventories and treatments were carried out in priority waterbodies throughout the... -
Provincial Framework for Steelhead Management in British Columbia
This framework document is intended to meet the need of regional flexibility necessary to respond to the diversity of conditions, challenges and angler preferences found across the province in relation to Steelhead management. This management framework aims... -
Northwest Water Tool
The Northwest Water Tool was developed for the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations to provide guidance on water availability across northwest BC and to support the decision-making process for water use approvals and licences. The... -
Natural Resource Stewardship Monitoring and Assessment Report for the Wet'suw...
Natural Resource Stewardship Monitoring and Assessment Reports are a summary of existing resource value monitoring and assessment information for a given geographic area. Data in this report has been arranged into the following categories: fish and water,... -
Lakelse River Watershed - Review of Existing Information
This report reviews existing water, fisheries, and land-use related information for the Lakelse River watershed, considered for Fisheries Sensitive Watershed designation. This review is to determine if significant fish values occur in the watershed, and if... -
British Columbia Fish Passage Program
The project objectives for Maxan creek were to remove the Strimbold Bridge that is impacting fish habitat and likely a barrier to fish passage at some flows, and may pose an environmental risk if washed downstream due to flood event. -
Adapting Forest and Range Management to Climate Change in the Skeena Region: ...
The intent of this extension note is to inform adaptation of forest and range practices to climate change by providing the best available information to resource professionals, licensees, and Government staff engaged in: operational planning under the... -
GIS Modelling of Fish Habitat and Road Crossings for the Prioritization of Cu...
In British Columbia, culverted stream crossings in fish habitats often create barriers to fish passage. To address this issue, The Fish Passage Technical Working Group uses GIS analysis to locate culverted stream crossings in fish habitats and uses such... -
Environmental Mitigation Plan Strimbold Bridge Maxan Creek Deactivation
This environmental mitigation plan identifies the issues and mitigation measures to best accomplish the collapsed bridge removal with the least environmental impacts and the safest approach. This plan considers different site conditions that may exist at... -
Development of a Climate Change Index of Stress Using Future Projected BEC: P...
Immigration of climatically-suited species could lead to recovery, but is not expected to keep pace with climate change (Aitken et al. 2008, McLachlan et al. 2005), thus future plant communities may remain depauperate for some time in comparison to... -
Climate Change: Skeena and Omineca Regions
This dataset contains slides describing climate change and climate trends in the Skeena and Omineca regions, climate change projections and the Ministry's response to the climate change.