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LakeKeepers Manual: A Guide to Lake Stewardship and Ecology in British Columbia
The 2022 edition of the LakeKeepers manual was produced by the Board of Directors and staff of the BC Lake Stewardship Society (BCLSS) for individuals and groups interested in protecting and preserving lake habitats in British Columbia. The LakeKeepers... -
Fish Passage GIS Analysis Version 2 Methodology and Output Data Specification...
The BC Land Based Investment (LBI) fish passage program is focused on remediating stream crossings that impede freshwater fish migration. The most common barrier to fish is improperly designed and installed closed bottom structures such as culverts.... -
Tier I Watershed-level fish values monitoring protocol
This report provides a protocol for Tier 1 watershed-level fish monitoring based on remote-sensed or broad-scale habitat inventory data available for all watersheds in regularly updated and readily accessible agency GIS Layers. Information from Tier 1... -
Site-Specific Water Quality Guidelines for Skeena River at Usk for the Purpos...
Site-specific water quality guidelines for the Skeena River at Usk for the purpose of national reporting (May 2005). This document is one in a series that presents ambient site-specific water quality guidelines (SSGs) for British Columbia and the Yukon.... -
Overview of the Preliminary Healthy Watersheds Assessments Project: Evaluatin...
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... -
Optimal Harvest Strategies for Pink Salmon in the Skeena River: A Compressed ...
This working paper applies a previously-defined methodology for determining optimal harvest strategies in relation to uncertainty about stock production parameters and demonstrates the application of that procedure to pink salmon (odd year cycle) of the... -
Interim Assessment Protocol for Aquatic Ecosystems in British Columbia: Stand...
The Aquatic Ecosystems assessment protocol currently describes the derivation of a core set of watershed indicators that can be calculated consistently across the province using GIS data layers readily available from GeoBC or other ministry providers. The... -
Coastal Watershed Assessment Procedure Guidebook (CWAP) Interior Watershed As...
This guidebook has been prepared to help forest resource managers plan, prescribe and implement sound forest practices that comply with the Forest Practices Code. The information provided in each guidebook is intended to help users exercise their... -
Tools for Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments for Watersheds
Drawing guidance from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this compendium defines vulnerability assessment as a process for assessing, measuring, and/or characterizing the exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of watersheds to...