Mountain goats have been identified as a monitoring priority for the Babine watershed Monitoring Trust (BWMT) for the last two years. In 2007, the BWMT initiated a background review to gather information and/or data made available after the inception of the...

This document presents the available salmonid resource information as well as the status of development activity and physiographic conditions within the Skeena River basin portion of the Fort St. James Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) area. This...

Weblink to the STREAM website. STREAM (Sequencing the Rivers for Environmental Assessment and Monitoring) is a new community-based project that involves the collection of benthic macroinvertebrates from rivers across Canada to generate a better...

The Skeena Sustainability Assessment Forum’s (SSAF) State of the Values (SoV) Report for Wetlands provides an overview of the current condition of wetlands in the SSAF study area and describes some of their key attributes. This is a coarse filter...

The Skeena Sustainability Assessment Forum’s (SSAF) State of the Value Report for Fish and Fish Habitat provides an overview of the current condition of fish and fish habitat in the SSAF study area and describes some of the key drivers behind these results....

The Skeena Sustainability Assessment Forum’s (SSAF) State of the Value (SoV) Report for Fish and Fish Habitat provides an overview of the current condition of fish and fish habitat in the SSAF study area and describes some of the key drivers behind these...

Spatial data and data dictionaries for the SSAF State of Value Report for Grizzly Bear Habitat 2020. To download and view interactive maps for each indicator please use the links provided below. 4.1 Conservation Rank 4.2 Bear Density 4.3 Core Security Areas...

This report provides results from Step 3, Identifying Metrics and Benchmarks for habitat indicators being considered by DFO for Strategy 2 of the Wild Salmon Policy.

This document presents an assessment of the status of coho salmon (Onchorhynchus kisutch) in the Canadian northern boundary areas with emphasis on the Skeena River. The content of this assessment has largely been drawn from published assessments. There are...

The Morice Water Monitoring Trust manages a collaborative, long-term, science-based program to collect water quality and water quantity information for the Morice Water Management Area to define existing information and identify where water-related issues...

This report aims to support monitoring for the implementation and effectiveness of land use planning for achieving management and conservation goals to maintain grizzly bears over the long term in the Babine Watershed Monitoring Trust area of interest.

This project was initiated to summarize ongoing work by the Ministry of Environment and other stakeholders with respect to forest harvesting and mountain goat habitat in the Babine Watershed.

Sampling at fish index sites was conducted at five locations in Foxy and Buck creeks for Equity Silver Mines Ltd. from September 1988 to 1991.

The Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) is an aquatic biomonitoring program for assessing the health of fresh water ecosystems in Canada. Benthic macroinvertebrates are collected at a site location and their counts are used as an indicator of the...

This report documents the methodology used by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to identify potential Strategy 2 habitat indicators, metrics, and benchmarks (as well as possible sampling protocols). The proposed list of indicators presented in...

Links to sites related to the Fisheries and Oceans Canada Wild Pacific Salmon Policy

In this project, a bioassessment tool known as the Reference Condition Approach (RCA) was developed for north-central British Columbia. In the RCA, benthic invertebrates and habitat descriptors from a large number of reference sites are used to build a...

The decline in escapement monitoring effort and the importance of these data for annual assessment of stock status prompted this review of the escapement indicator streams and the discussions regarding survey priorities, methods, and costs with the groups...

The Skeena Sustainability Assessment Forum’s (SSAF) State of Value (SoV) Report for Grizzly Bear provides a high-level summary of the current condition of grizzly bear populations and habitat within the Skeena Environmental Stewardship Initiative (ESI)...