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The cottonwood conservation project promotes retention of mature wildlife trees in the Columbia Wetland by protecting trees from beaver herbivory. Wetland mapping and surveys in Year 1 identified critical stands […]
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MacDonald Hydrology Consultants (MacHydro) in collaboration with the Columbia Wetland Stewardship Partners (CWSP) conducted a project to evaluate wetland vulnerability and determine priority wetlands where management actions like conservation or […]
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Year 3 (2021-2022) of the KC-CWSP initiative focused on conservation actions regarding the following: Lewis’s woodpecker, WPT, alkali saltgrass-foxtail barley ecological community (EC), osprey, and American badger. Outcomes regarding actions […]
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The Columbia Wetlands occur in the Rocky Mountain Trench along the upper reaches of the Columbia River between Columbia Lake and the Kinbasket Reservoir in British Columbia. The Columbia Wetlands […]
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The purpose of the cottonwood/beaver project is to assess the status of important cottonwood stands and install wire protectors if they are required to protect critical stands from beaver harvesting. […]
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The Columbia Wetlands Stewardship Partners completed 4 projects as part of the Kootenay Connect- ECCC project. The projects included the 3CW Conservation Lands project whose goal was to identify and […]
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As part of the 4-year study into the Columbia Wetlands, we are conducting research into the impacts of beaver dams on individual wetlands within the Columbia Wetlands complex. As this […]
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Recent hydroclimatic change has impacted flows and floodplain inundation patterns on the Upper Columbia River, BC, Canada, leading to a reduction in open water wetland areas. The over-arching objective was […]
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The goal of the Upper Columbia Wetland Vulnerability Assessment project is to determine the various types of wetlands in the upper Columbia Wetlands based on their hydrologic functions, determine which […]
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This is an ambitious project to identify and map the flood basins in the Columbia Wetlands that are vulnerable to drought and climate change and to determine if and where […]
