Water Stewardship Information Sources
| ID | 578 |
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| Citation | Ecoscape Environmental Consultants Ltd. 2011. Lower Shuswap River Inverntory, Mapping and Aquatic Habitat Index: A Living Document - Version 1.1. Prepared for Regional District of North Okanagan, City of Enderby, Department of Fisheries and Oceans. |
| Organization | RDNO |
| URL | http://www.cmnbc.ca/sites/default/files/Shuswap_River_Inventory_AHI_Report.pdf |
| Abstract/Description or Keywords | Mapping of the Lower Shuswap River (LSHU) was conducted following the current threestep Lake Management Process being standardized across British Columbia. Sensitive Habitat Inventory and Mapping (SHIM) and Foreshore Inventory and Mapping (FIM) are protocols used to collect baseline information regarding the current condition of watercourses, shorelines, and associated riparian habitats. These inventories provide information on channel character, shore/bank types and condition, substrates, land use, and habitat modifications. Currently there is no protocol for completing a similar inventory on large rivers. However, using existing SHIM (for wadeable streams) and FIM protocols, inventory methods were adapted, to be both practical and applicable to middle to large-sized river such as the Lower Shuswap. The inventory mapped the spatial extents of the main stem of the LSHU and associated flood plain areas within 100-m of the active floodplain limit including but not limited to back channels, islands and wetlands with year round and seasonal connectivity and associated riparian habitats, and important watercourse and fisheries habitat features. Relative habitat values were assigned to subareas within the river channel and 100-m riparian band. An Aquatic Habitat Index (AHI) was subsequently developed that summated the score of habitat subareas relative to the total area of respective channel reaches and 100- m wide bank segments. The goal was to assign index ranks (Very Low - Very High) to the river and left and right banks. aquatic habitat, restoration, salmonids, watershed management |
| Information Type | report |
| Regional Watershed | Shuswap |
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| Project status | complete |
| Contact Name | Ecoscape Environmental Consultants Ltd |
| Contact Email | [email protected] |