Description:
This closing year wraps a series of Bonanza biodiversity, habitat and restoration projects supported through the Kootenay Connect Priority Places since 2019. The scope of this project focusses on the next steps for conservation management and the delivery of post implementation restoration site monitoring programs in the Bonanza Biodiversity Corridor (BBC). All three restoration sites are now fully established as long-term reference sites for continued wetland monitoring in the BBC. This baseline is now established for monitoring change through time. BBC site monitoring is an established annual process with the Slocan Lake Stewardship Society. The BBC Conservation Plan was crafted from the range of data, information and assessments accumulated over the years, guided by the BBC Conservation Framework developed in Year 3. It is the accumulation of knowledge for the BBC from a Stewardship perspective and identifies many compelling reasons to seek legislated conservancy status for the entire corridor. The Plan includes an overview of the regional importance of the BBC as a connectivity corridor and a climate refugia.

Keywords: species at risk; wetlands; riparian; restoration

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Organization: Slocan Lake Stewardship Society

Category: Project Overview

Focal Area: Bonanza

Resource Type: Report

Year: 2023