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October 19-20 2011, Merritt
Eco-Health, Ecosystems and Watersheds Workshop

The Coldwater Indian Band and Fraser Basin Council co-hosted "Eco-Health, Ecosystems and Watersheds" in the fall of 2011, bringing together 40 participants to explore watershed issues in the Nicola Valley, including climate change impacts, and ways that eco-health and traditional ecological knowledge can be better integrated into watershed management.

This workshop was funded by Health Canada, the Coldwater Indian Band, the Southern Interior Beetle Action Coalition, Suwix Resources Ltd. and the Upper Nicola Band. For other recent water workshops, see Fostering Collaborative Responses to Hydrological Changes in the Nicola Watersheds (March 2011) and Hydrological Impacts of Mountain Pine Beetle in the Fraser River Basin (2010 and 2011).

Here is the Eco-Health, Ecosystems and Watersheds Workshop summary, along with speaker powerpoint presentations, available for download in PDF:

Workshop Summary	Prepared by the Fraser Basin Council
Nicola Water Use Plan	Elizabeth Salomon-de-Friedberg
The Okanagan Watershed	Anna Warwick-Sears
Water Hydrology and the Ecosystem	Don Dobson
Ecosystem Restoration and Traditional Knowledge	Ellen Simmons
Four Components on the Degree of Acuity	Scotty Holmes
Ecohydrology: Sustainable Water Resources and Ecosystem Management	Kevin Bladon
Assessment of Health Risks from Environmental Contaminants: three examples from BC First Nations communities	Andrew Jin
Linking Health, Ecosystems and Society in Northern BC Watersheds	Margot Parkes

Fostering Collaborative Responses to Hydrological Changes
in the Nicola Watershed — Workshop Presentations

Several presentations from our March 30-31, 2011workshop are available below in PDF, along with two maps of the Nicola Watershed. Please note that not all workshop presentations used PowerPoint visuals. For an overview of all presentations, see the summary Fostering Collaborative Responses to Hydrological Changes in the Nicola Watershed.

Presentations

Effects of MPB on snow and spring run-off	Rita Winkler, Research Hydrologist, Ministry of Natural Resource Operations, Kamloops
Surface water-groundwater interaction between the Coldwater and Nicola Rivers and the Merritt aquifer	Kevin Bennett, Groundwater Hydrologist, Ministry of Natural Resource Operations, Kamloops
Impacts of changes in stream peak flows	Don Dobson, Senior Water Engineer, Urban Systems Ltd.
The Nicola Watershed	Elizabeth Salomon-de-Friedberg, Coordinator, Nicola Watershed Community Round Table
Forest Industry Perspective	Christian Guay, Area Forester, BC Timber Sales

Maps

Below are two downloadable PDF maps of the Nicola Watershed, courtesy of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.

• Nicola Watershed — shaded map: High Resolution Version (35 MB) | Low Resolution for Screen (1.4 MB)
• Nicola Watershed — orthophoto map: High Resolution Version (153 MB: Large File) | Low Resolution for Screen (2.43 MB)

 

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