Neexdzii Kwah Restoration Planning 2024
Acknowledgement
Executive Summary
1
Introduction
1.1
Wet’suwet’en
1.2
Widzin Kwah Water Sustainability Project
1.3
Widzin Kwah
1.4
Project Scope
1.4.1
Historic and Ongoing Ecosystem Degradation
1.4.2
Project Objectives
1.4.3
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
2
Background
2.1
Project Location
2.1.1
Neexdzii Kwah (Upper Bulkley River)
2.1.2
Buck Creek
2.1.3
Climate Anomalies
2.2
Skeena Knowledge Trust
2.3
Water Quality
2.4
Fisheries
2.4.1
Neexdzii Kwah
2.5
Restoration Philosophy
2.5.1
Process-based Restoration
2.5.2
Stage 0
3
Methods
3.1
Collaborative GIS Environment
3.2
Aerial Imagery
3.3
Open Source - Iterative Reporting
3.3.1
Issue and Discussion Tracking
3.3.2
Tables and Figures
3.3.3
Data Sourceing from Skeena Salmon Data Centre
3.3.4
Documentation of Workflows
3.4
Historic Information Regarding Impacts and Restoration Initiatives
3.5
Future Restoration Site Selection
3.5.1
Evaluation of Historic and Current Imagery
3.5.2
Fish Passage
3.5.3
Local Knowledge for Riparian Area and Erosion Protection Site Selection
3.5.4
Delineation of Areas of High Fisheries Values
3.5.5
Parameter Ranking to Select Future Restoration Sites
4
Results
4.1
Field Review
4.2
Collaborative GIS Environment
4.3
Aerial Imagery
4.4
Historic Information Regarding Impacts and Restoration Initiatives
4.4.1
Morin (2016)
- Niwhts’ide’nï Hibi’itën: The Ways of Our Ancestors
4.4.2
Mitchell (1997)
- Riparian and In-stream Assessment of the Bulkley River System - An Examination and Priorization of Impacts on the Tributaries to the Bulkley River Mainstem
4.4.3
Price (2014)
- Upper Bulkley floodplain habitat: modifications, physical barriers, and sites of potential importance to salmonids
4.4.4
NCFDC (1998)
- Mid-Bulkley Detailed Fish Habitat/Riparian/Channel Assessment for Watershed Restoration
4.4.5
Gaboury and Smith (2016)
- Development of Aquatic Restoration Designs and On-Farm Cattle Management Improvements within the Wet’suwet’en irst Nation Territory
4.4.6
Skeena Sustainability Assessment Forum (2021)
- State of the Value Report for Fish and Fish Habitat
4.5
Future Restoration Site Selection
4.5.1
Evaluation of Historic and Current Imagery
4.5.2
Fish Passage
4.5.3
Local Knowledge for Riparian Area and Erosion Protection Site Selection
4.5.4
Delineation of Areas of High Fisheries Values
4.5.5
Parameter Ranking to Select Future Restoration Sites
5
Recommendations
References
Appendix 1 - Climate Anamoly Data
Appendix 2 - Potential Restoration Site Review and Effectiveness Monitoring Data - 2024
Appendix 3 - Skeena Knowledge Trust - Data Available for Download
Appendix 4 – State of the Value – Fish and Fish Habitat
Appendix 5 – Example of Potential Restoration Sites Prioritized
Attachment 1 - Riparian Prescription Example
Changelog
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Session Info
Scripts and Data
Neexdzii Kwah Restoration Planning 2024
Appendix 1 - Climate Anamoly Data
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_climate_normal_1981_2010_winter_plot.png)