Water Stewardship Information Sources
| ID | 652 |
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| Citation | Forsite Consultants Ltd. 2012. Sensitive habitat inventory mapping and Wetland inventory mapping, 2012 Inventory and Mapping. Prepared for City of Salmon Arm. |
| Organization | City of Salmon Arm |
| URL | http://www.salmonarm.ca/DocumentCenter/View/364 |
| Abstract/Description or Keywords | The first phase of sensitive habitat inventory and mapping (SHIM) and wetland inventory mapping (WIM) project was completed in the City of Salmon Arm by Forsite Consultants and Avocet Environmental Consultants. The inventory work assessed 69 kilometres of stream and 71 wetlands within the study area. Eight stream corridors were part of the inventory area and included Canoe, Palmer, Leonard, Hobson, Syphon, Cress and Turner Creeks and the Salmon River. Objectives of the inventory were to provide accurate spatial layers on the extent of streams and wetlands, and associated fish and riparian habitat features that could be incorporated into the city's GIS management environment to support land-use management decisions and habitat enhancement opportunities. Office and field procedures for the inventory work followed several standards including the Sensitive Habitat Inventory and Mapping methods (SHIM), (Mason and Knight, 2001), the Wetlands of British Columbia - A Guide to Identification (Mackenzie and Moran, 2004) and the Riparian Area Management, Process for Assessing Proper Functioning Condition (Prichard, 1998) Final products of the inventory work included, but were not limited to stream riparian class delineation and disturbance data, wetland classification and proper functioning condition, primary channel condition data, fish obstruction data, channel measurements data, existing and potential enhancement opportunities information and top of bank survey. The inventory information provided by this inventory project can be used to identify environmental issues and enhancement opportunities. There are numerous analyses that can be made with the data such as comparing land use to stream and riparian condition, or screening out culverts that are barriers to fish passage. Overall, the data layers provided will support land use management decisions, provide environmental considerations to proposed developments in and around sensitive areas, and identify environmental enhancement opportunities. wetland, aquatic ecology, aquatic habitat, aquatic ecosystems |
| Information Type | report |
| Regional Watershed | Shuswap |
| Sub-watershed if known | Salmon River |
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| Project status | complete |
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