AIP – BC Watershed Statistics
The Aquatic Information Partnership (AIP) goal is to make aquatic related information easily accessible and to create knowledge that could help conserve or maintain healthy ecosystems.
The AIP catalogue...
BC Marine Conservation Analysis Atlas
British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA) is a collaborative project designed to provide information about marine biodiversity and human activity in BC’s marine waters.
In partnership with the BC Conservation Foundation...
BC NGO Conservation Lands Atlas
The BC NGO Conservation Lands Atlas is a joint effort to collect the spatial boundaries of all conserved lands secured by Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) and other agencies and organizations....
BC Wetlands Atlas
The BC Wetlands Atlas provides a citizen-science based approach to mapping wetlands in British Columbia and is an initiative of the BC Wildlife Federation’s Wetlands Education Program. The Atlas includes...
Bessette Creek and Salmon River Sensitive Habitat Atlas
The Bessette Creek system lies within the Shuswap River watershed, a culturally significant area to First Nations. Adjacent to the Shuswap River near Enderby is the main reserve for the...
Bonaparte River Sensitive Habitat Inventory and Mapping
The Bonaparte River watershed lies within the traditional territory of the Bonaparte Indian Band, also known as the Bonaparte First Nation. The community is part of the Shuswap Nation Tribal...
Bulkley-Nechako Regional Atlas
The purpose of the Bulkley-Nechako Watershed Mapping Project is to provide baseline information for future decision-making about proposed shoreline developments and a detailed accounting of existing shoreline development. The project...
Comox Valley Project Watershed
Comox Valley Project Watershed Society is a registered non-profit environmental society with Canadian charitable tax status focused on sensitive habitat stewardship. The organization is guided by a...
Coquitlam River Watershed Roundtable
The Coquitlam River Watershed Roundtable (CRWR) is a multi-stakeholder and Indigenous knowledge collective within the Lower Coquitlam River Watershed, whose mission is to
- Provide a forum to encourage holistic watershed...
Cowichan Valley Watershed Atlas
The purpose of the Cowichan Valley Watershed Atlas is to provide baseline information for future decision-making about proposed shoreline developments and a detailed accounting of existing shoreline development. The Cowichan...
Deadman River Habitat Atlas
The purpose of the Deadman River Habitat Atlas is to provide baseline information for future decision-making about proposed shoreline developments and a detailed accounting of existing shoreline development. The project...
DISCONNECTED WATERS
Much of the flood infrastructure in the Fraser Valley that protects homes and farms from flooding, also blocks salmon from accessing waterways that once...
Eagle River Watershed Atlas
The purpose of the Eagle River Habitat Atlas is to provide baseline information for future decision-making about proposed shoreline developments and a detailed accounting of existing habitat condition. The project...
Eelgrass Bed Mapping
Land use changes and developments have led to a loss of natural estuarine habitat in British Columbia. Agriculture, forestry, and dredging for commercial and residential development have all contributed to...
Elk River Alliance
Sensitive Habitat Inventory and Mapping (SHIM) data on Lizard Creek was collected in spring and summer 2011 by the Elk River Alliance (ERA). ERA is a community-based water group, which aims...
Fisheries Information Summary System Data Entry Tool
The Fisheries Information Summary System (FISS)provides spatially represented summary level fish and fish habitat data for waterbodies throughout British Columbia and the Yukon. The information is in database format and...
Forage Fish Atlas and Data Management System
The ecosystem role of forage fish and the need to protect their critical spawning and rearing habitats requires recognition and public attention. The BC Shore Spawners Alliance is an alliance...
Foreshore Integrated Management Planning Atlas
The Columbia Basin Water Hub acknowledges that the data stored on this web atlas is collected from the unceded traditional territories of the Ktunaxa, Lheidli T’enneh, Secwepemc, Sinixt and Syilx...
Fraser Basin Atlas
One look at the Fraser Basin – the area drained by the Fraser River and its 13 main watersheds – and you can see why it plays such a pivotal...
Fraser Valley Watersheds Atlas
The Fraser Valley Watersheds Atlas is under construction and will be providing many new layers of information in the coming months. The The Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) is working...
FREMP – BIEAP Habitat Atlas
May, 2024 Update: A new paper published in the Journal Wetlands builds upon research conducted by the Community Mapping Network and Ducks Unlimited Canada in 2015 and 2021...
Georgia Basin Habitat Atlas
The Georgia Basin Habitat Atlas will provide up-to-date habitat information to planners, developers, governments, First Nations, community organizations, businesses and the general public. Many individuals and partners are acknowledged for...
Georgia Strait Alliance
Georgia Strait Alliance is the only citizens' group focused on protecting the marine environment in and around the whole Strait of Georgia – Canada's most at-risk natural environment, and the...
Great Blue Heron (GBHE) Management Team
The web map viewer for this atlas has changed. Be sure to ALWAYS access the atlas using the link provided on this page.
If you use an old bookmark you will...
Harrison Salmon Stronghold Restoration and Stewardship Atlas
The Harrison River was designated an International Salmon Stronghold in 2010 by the North American Salmon Stronghold Partnership. The Harrison Salmon Stronghold represents one of the most ecologically significant Pacific salmon...
Horsefly Lake Habitat Atlas
Many of the lakes and rivers in the Cariboo Regional District have critical fish and wildlife habitat such as Quesnel and Horsefly Lakes. Development proposals are increasing along lake shores, watercourses...
Invasive Species – Spartina.ca
Welcome to the Invasive Species Atlas and home page for the BC Spartina Working Group, a multi-partner initiative in BC and the Pacific Coast to find and control Spartina species.
The...
Kamloops–South Thompson Sustainable Community Atlas
The Kamloops-South Thompson Sustainable Community Atlas is the first project of the Kamloops-South Thompson Mapping and Capacity Partnership. the atlas supports social, economic and environmental decision making in the City...
Lake Windermere Area Habitat Atlas
The East Kootenay Integrated Lake Management Partnership (EKILMP) is a coalition of various agencies, local governments, First Nations and non-government organizations with joint responsibilities to protect lake ecosystems. The mandate...
LOUIS CREEK SENSITIVE HABITAT ATLAS
Símpcwemc have utilized their territory (approximately 5 million hectares) from time immemorial and are recognized as “People of the River”. The North Thompson River watershed is largely encompassed within Simpcwúl̓ecw...
Lower Shuswap River
The purpose of the Lower Shuswap Watershed Mapping Project is to provide baseline information for future decision-making about proposed shoreline developments and a detailed accounting of existing shoreline development. The...
Lower Mainland Flood and Environment Atlas
An online atlas was developed for collating best available data about environmental values and features along the Fraser River from Hope to Richmond and coastal foreshore areas from White Rock...
Mabel Lake
The purpose of the Mabel Lake Watershed Mapping Project is to provide baseline information for future decision-making about proposed shoreline developments and a detailed accounting of existing shoreline development. The...
MOE FLNRO Regional Library Catalogue – South Coast Region
Search for reports containing natural resources information in the South Coast Region of the Ministry of Environment (MOE) and Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (FLNRO). This catalogue...
Nechako Watershed Health Atlas
Welcome to the Nechako Watershed Health Atlas. The overall goals of the project are:
- to assess the health of the Nechako River watershed in north central BC using best available...
Nicola Lake Habitat Atlas
The purpose of the Nicola Lake Habitat Atlas is to provide baseline information for future decision-making about proposed shoreline developments and a detailed accounting of existing shoreline development. The project...
North Coast Watershed Atlas
The purpose of the North Coast Watershed Atlas is to provide baseline information for future decision-making about proposed shoreline and watershed developments. There are many pending development proposals. Local governments, Department...
North Thompson Sustainable Watershed Atlas
We are the North Thompson Sustainable Watershed Mapping Group (NTSWMG), composed of a cross-section of North Thompson Valley organizations and individuals that work together to foster the sharing of information...
Okanagan Habitat Atlas
The Okanagan Habitat Atlas is a web-based mapping tool that brings together a variety of information about natural and cultural attributes and resources of the Okanagan Basin. Its main purpose...
Pacific Coastal Resources Atlas for British Columbia
The Pacific Coastal Resources Atlas (PCRA) for British Columbia, Canada, was developed in response to the expressed need for an easily accessible information source that can be used by anyone...
Pacific Region Contaminants Atlas
The Pacific Region Contaminants Atlas (PRCA) is an online resource tool which was designed to explore environmental contaminant topics in British Columbia, Canada. Information sharing is vital...
Powell River Watershed Atlas
Fish distribution, lot boundaries and selected resource...
Private Well Network
The Private Well Network (PWN) is a community-based initiative designed to encourage private well owners to protect their health through regular and affordable testing of well water quality. By sharing...
Rivers and Smith Salmon Inlets Atlas
The Rivers And Smith Inlets Atlas is a web-based mapping tool that brings together a variety of information about sensitive and critical salmonid spawning and rearing habitat for the watersheds...
Rivershed Society of BC Project Rivershed
In 2004, RSBC developed Project Rivershed, to build community capacity, educate the public, and encourage conservation and stewardship of natural resources, especially salmon and water, in riversheds. The program encourages...
Sea To Sky Habitat Atlas
The Sea to Sky Sensitive Habitat Atlas was developed in anticipation of regional urban development in the Sea to Sky corridor hastened by the coming 2010 Winter Olympics. The atlas...
Sensitive Ecosystems Inventory (SEI)
The Georgia Basin Lowlands include Vancouver Island’s eastern coastal areas, the adjacent Gulf Islands, the Sunshine Coast (east side of Georgia Stait) and the islands of Howe Sound. They comprise...
SHIM (Sensitive Habitat Inventory and Mapping)
As resource development and human populations increase In British Columbia, pressures on all resources and services have accelerated. Rapid growth has often overwhelmed the ability of local planners to manage...
Shorekeepers Atlas
The first warm day of spring, with a low tide, almost always draws people out to stroll along the shore, to beachcomb, or explore the tidepools. The intertidal zone is...
Shuswap Lake Watershed Atlas
The purpose of the Shuswap Watershed Mapping Project is to provide baseline information for future decision-making about proposed shoreline developments and a detailed accounting of existing shoreline development. In 2009,...
Slocan Lake Habitat Atlas
The Slocan Lake Stewardship Society (SLSS) was formed in 2007 with three goals: to support research about Slocan Lake in all areas (water quality, fish, foreshore health, endangered species, etc.);...
South Coast Cutthroat
The South Coast Cutthroat Atlas was original compiled in 2000 to 2003, 2004. The attached status report from August 2005, "Coastal Cutthroat Trout as Sentinels of Lower Mainland Watershed Health"...
Southern Gulf Islands
The Gulf Islands Atlas is a web-based mapping tool that brings together a variety of information about the natural and cultural attributes and resources of the southern Gulf Islands region....
Stewardship Project Registry – SPR
The Stewardship Project Registry Atlas captures records of completed projects (as far back as the mid 1990s) for many of the funding organizations in the Pacific Region. The data base...
Sunshine Coast Habitat Atlas
The Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD), in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (F&OC), has created a Habitat Atlas for the Sunshine Coast. The database provides up-to-date information to planners,...
West Arm Quesnel Lake Habitat Atlas
Many of the lakes and rivers in the Cariboo Regional District have critical fish and wildlife habitat such as Quesnel and Horsefly Lakes. Development proposals are increasing along lake shores, watercourses...
Wildlife Tree Stewardship
The Community Mapping Network (CMN) has a new publicly available mobile app for collecting and recording nest observations in the field. The WiTS mobile app...
WildResearch Nightjar Survey
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Thanks for your interest in nightjar surveys!
Long-term national coordination of the Canadian Nightjar Survey has been transferred to Birds Canada, including the participation of our valuable WildResearch...
Yukon Fish and Fish Habitat Atlas
The Yukon Fisheries Information Summary System (YFISS) was last updated by Fisheries and Oceans Canada in 2012 so there are many Yukon-based reports...