Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations

Projects

Current projects at Upper Penticton Creek include:

The effects of high elevation forest cover on snow accumulation and melt
Contact: Rita Winkler
The effects of logging on upland water yield and quality
Contact: Rita Winkler
The effects logging on aquatic invertebrate ecology
Contact: Brian Heise
The effects of climate and forest cover change on snowmelt-dominated water supplies in the Okanagan
Contacts: Sarah Boon and Rita Winkler
Rainfall interception in young and mature conifer forests in the BC Interior
Contacts: Dave Spittlehouse and Darryl Carlyle-Moses
The annual water balance of high elevation forests and clearcuts
Contact: Dave Spittlehouse
Changes in channel morphology with logging in high elevation watersheds
Contact: Tim Giles
The effects of road construction and logging on turbidity and suspended sediment in small headwater streams
Contact: Tim Giles
Estimating groundwater recharge to a headwater catchment
Contact: Diana Allen