Land use activities have had a significant impact on many of the tributaries within the central Bulkley River watershed. Preliminary air photo analysis has indicated that high value fish habitat has been moderately to severely impacted in a large proportion...

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...

The report includes a series of detailed recommendations to prevent the loss of the last of the very rare and highly important productive old forest, and to manage the remainder of the old forest to a reduced risk level in future.

Review of the hydrology, geomorphology, ecology and management of the Skeena River floodplain. This review of the natural and human history of the floodplain of the lower Skeena River was initiated to provide background information to support future...

Klohn-Crippen Consultants Ltd. was retained by the Fisheries Branch of the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks in Smithers, British Columbia, to conduct a reconnaissance survey of Jack Mould Lake (alias - Watershed Code unknown) which lies within the...

The purpose of this survey was to provide essential fish and fish habitat information required for resource planning and making management decisions for Coppermine Lake. Fish sampling was conducted by means of set lines, gillnets, and minnow traps set in...

Our objective was to identify rare ecosystems in the watershed using existing data such as field reports, terrestrial ecosystem mapping projects, and predictive ecosystem mapping products. We compared data sources in terms of reliability and quality, and...

This study estimates the range of natural variability (RONV) for structural attributes remaining after fire, insects and wind disturbances within a variety of ecosystems of the Sub-boreal Spruce (SBS) and Engelmann Spruce-Subalpine Fir (ESSF) biogeoclimatic...

This environmental assessment, like the effects assessment contained in the original 2007 EAC Application, is a sustainability-based environmental assessment that considers the following five interconnected and interdependent "pillars": environment,...

In November 2021, the BC Old Growth Technical Advisory Panel released eight maps outlining the most at risk old forest for immediate deferral. This dataset includes the background report describing the development of the maps, an html link to the original...

This report summarizes field data collected in 2014 for fish and fish habitat along the proposed application corridors within Nisga’a Lands. Fish and fish habitat information and field results for the remainder of the proposed project were collected in 2012...

This survey acquires the ecological information on plant community types occurring in estuaries on the north coast and creates a site classification. It also surveys and describes a range of estuaries on the north coast, summarizing basic biological and...

ClimateNA is a standalone MS Windows application that uses gridded monthly climate normal data (800 x 800 m) to generate scale-free climate data and climate surfaces for specific locations. It calculates and derives many (>200) monthly, seasonal and...

There is a strong scientific consensus that the Earth’s climate is changing, primarily due to greenhouse gas emissions. This series of climate summaries, for the eight resource regions of British Columbia, is meant to help inform readers about past climate...

Klohn-Crippen Consultants Ltd. was retained by the Fisheries Branch of the BC Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks in Smithers, British Columbia, to conduct a reconnaissance survey of Netalzul Meadow Lake (alias) within the Bulkley River watershed. The...

The field survey was conducted on September 23 and 24, 1996 by G. Scarborough and J. Calvert. This lake is located east of Nilkitkwa Lake, approximately 6.6 km north of Fort Babine, and has not previously been surveyed. The purpose of this survey was to...

A report for Skeena communities on opportunities, tools, and challenges on adaptive and integrated management of forests, fish, and local values in a changing climate. The report presents the results of sociological research and workshops held from...

The guidebook aims to provide direction on applying biodiversity emphasis options at various levels, establishing biodiversity emphasis options for the landscape unit, designing a landscape unit to achieve biodiversity objectives, and addressing stand...