Keyword: riparian

• Development and preliminary results of partial-cut timber harvesting in a riparian area to maintain grizzly bear spring habitat values.
  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hre/pubs/pubs/0590.htm
  Development and preliminary results of partial-cut timber harvesting in a riparian area to maintain grizzly bear spring habitat values. ...

• Analysis of livestock use of riparian areas: literature review and research needs assessment for British Columbia.
  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hre/pubs/pubs/1148.htm
  Analysis of livestock use of riparian areas: literature review and research needs assessment for British Columbia. ...

• Riparian Areas: Providing Landscape Habitat Diversity
  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hre/pubs/pubs/1214.htm
  Riparian areas represent less than 10% of the provincial land base, but are often considered the most dynamic of all landscape features. Natural disturbances and fluvial processes continually work together in these areas to create distinctive ecosystems that are crucial for biological habitat diversity. Because of their usually abundant supplies of water and nutrients, most riparian sites are highly productive for timber. Riparian ecosystems also exert a great influence over animal and plant life, and many wildlife species depend on riparian areas in some way for food, water, security, rest, travel, and reproduction. However, because riparian areas usually occupy the lowest topographic positions in landscapes and have natural connections throughout the watershed, they are particularly sensitive. Many of the known negative effects of historical land-use practices on forested riparian areas resulted from a focus on the individual stand or stream reach. Resource managers now realize that a larger landscap ...

• Assessment of the Condition of Small Fish-bearing Streams in the Central Interior
  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hre/pubs/pubs/1237.htm
  Plateau of British Columbia in Response to Riparian Practices Implemented under the Forest Practices Code. The condition of small fish bearing streams (Forest Practices Code class S4) in the central interior of British Columbia was assessed to determine the effects of riparian forest harvest practices implemented under the B.C. Forest Practices Code. The purpose of the survey was to determine: How frequently are the different types of streamside harvesting practices implemented? Do the different types of streamside harvesting practices meet the objectives of the Riparian Management Area Guidebook? and Do the different types of streamside harvesting practices result in apparent impacts to fish habitat? The survey investigated the extent of forest harvesting potentially affecting small fish-bearing streams, the prevalent riparian silviculture treatments and levels of tree retention, the evidence for stream channel disturbance after forest harvesting, the degree of shade loss over the s ...

• Riparian microclimate and stream temperature response to forest harvesting – a review.
  http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hre/pubs/pubs/1391.htm
  Forest harvesting can increase solar radiation in the riparian zone as well as wind speed and exposure to air advected from clearings, typically causing increases in summertime air, soil, and stream temperatures and decreases in relative humidity. Stream temperature increases following forest harvesting are primarily controlled by changes in insolation but also depend on stream hydrology and channel morphology. Stream temperatures recovered to pre-harvest levels within 10 years in many studies but took longer in others. Leaving riparian buffers can decrease the magnitude of stream temperature increases and changes to riparian microclimate, but substantial warming has been observed for streams within both unthinned and partial retention buffers. A range of studies has demonstrated that streams may or may not cool after flowing from clearings into shaded environments, and further research is required in relation to the factors controlling downstream cooling. Further research is also required on riparian micr ...