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...

This report, commissioned by the Babine Watershed Monitoring Trust, is part of the mandate to monitor the effectiveness of land management plans covering the Babine Watershed. The effectiveness indicators analyzed are: for Biodiversity objective -deciduous...

This second summary document provides information (pH, alkalinity, calcium, and sensitivity rating) for about 760 lakes sampled between 1977 and 1986. This represents about 3.5% of the estimated 22,000 lakes in British Columbia. It provides locations where...

An overwintering study was conducted over three winters (November 1998 to March 2001) in the Upper Bulkley and Toboggan Creek watersheds in north-central British Columbia. The study area includes the lower portion of the Upper Bulkley watershed upstream of...

In 1997, the British Columbia Conservation Foundation (BCCF) was contracted by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to produce a map that would allow licensees and contractors to direct their referrals more efficiently. DFO was receiving referrals...

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....

This report contains information about Chrisholm Lake habitat quality. The data presented in this document includes information regarding aquatic vegetation, terrain features, physical and chemical water characteristics, pollution, fish habitation, and fish...

This report contains information about Brown Paint Lake habitat quality. The data presented in this document includes information regarding aquatic vegetation, terrain features, physical and chemical water characteristics, pollution, and fish habitation. In...

This document provides an overview of the Preliminary Healthy Watersheds Assessments (PHWA) project, which was carried out during 2016-2017 to improve the availability of comprehensive, national information about watershed health and vulnerability. The goal...

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...

The purpose of this project is to document alterations and impacts to Wet’suwet’en land and resources, particularly in regard to anadromous and freshwater resident fish and their habitats in Morice watershed. Alterations and impacts resulting from...

Juvenile sampling and habitat assessment was conducted in the lower three kilometers of Toboggan Creek from September to November, 1998. The lower two kilometers of the stream is of lower habitat quality (higher gradient, greater velocity, little cover)...

The purpose of this study was to collect data to determine how beaver dams might affect coho populations in tributaries of the Kispiox River, and to provide a review of the literature on the effects of beaver activity on salmonid populations.

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...