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Location: Upper Fraser, Prince George, BC Project Summary
The Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance (UFFCA) will be assessing fish habitats in watersheds historically infested by the Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) to increase knowledge of MPB impacts on fish habitat and the changes caused by infestation. UFFCA will assess landscape level disturbances that have already occurred in the interior, as these disturbances are expected to mimic ongoing and future MPB impacts. From this retrospective view, UFFCA will determine what impacts occurred, what historic forestry management actions were utilized to deal with the issue, how fish habitat values were affected, and how/if they are recovering. This knowledge will increase the ability to accurately predict fish habitat impacts in current and future MPB infested watersheds, and make watershed management recommendations that protect the integrity and function of high quality fish habitats. This project will be taking place in the upper Fraser watershed area, including all salmon-bearing portions of the Fraser River watershed upstream of Canoe Creek, encompassing spawning and rearing habitats of some of the Fraser’s largest and most economically important sockeye stocks. This project will provide a scientifically defensible approach to identifying and documenting changes in fish habitat conditions as a consequence of watershed, reach and site level changes caused, in large part, by historic management of MPB/SB infested forests. These evaluations will benefit salmon stocks in the region by providing timely information for development of sound forest management strategies, operational guidelines and best management practices to protect and mitigate impacts to salmon habitats in watersheds that are or will be infested by MPB. |
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