Products:

• Streamline Watershed Management Bulletin
• Compendium of Forest Hydrology and Geomorphology in BC
• Watershed Management Extension Mailing list
• Publications – Watershed Management



• Workshop Content
  • Mountain Pine Beetle and Watershed Hydrology Workshop: Preliminary Results of Research from BC, Alberta and Colorado
  • Post-wildfire Watershed Rehabilitation in BC
  • Landslides and Forest Operations on Vancouver Island


• Watershed Management Related Links
• Forest Water Quality Bibliography
• Annotated Bibliography: Climate Change and Water Quantity/Quality in BC

The Watershed Management Extension Program focuses on topics that directly or indirectly affect water resources in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, with a focus on forested land.

Objectives of the Watershed Management Extension Program are to:

• Identify individuals and groups involved in watershed management and research and their distinct information needs.
• Foster working relationships between policy-makers, researchers, and operational personnel.
• Increase communication and timely access to information.
• Assist in managing watershed management information.
• Facilitate and/or create extension activities tailored to identified needs.

Program Goals:

• Give people a greater awareness and understanding of the natural conditions of Coastal and Interior watersheds and the effects of watershed management; and
• Create an awareness and understanding of innovative knowledge and current research results in watershed management.

Generally, these goals will be met through:

• Greater collaboration among individuals and groups involved in watershed management (e.g., operational, policy, public and research communities).
• Improved communication among identified client groups.
• New or improved problem-solving tools and new research about watershed management.

The major topics of interest in this program are:

• Results-based water resources management
• Hydrologic processes in coastal and interior watersheds
• Forest management effects on water quantity and quality
• Stream function: effects of sediment, temperature and natural variation
• Watershed management tools, methods and information sources

The general activities of the program include the following:

• Identifying information needs and priorities.
• Fostering information exchange and increased professional linkages between policy-makers, researchers, and operations.
• Increasing awareness and timely access to watershed management information.
• Increasing knowledge of current research results and innovations in watershed management.
• Problem solving and creation of extension activities tailored to identified needs.

Create an extension request
For further information on the extension program and the services we provide, please contact Todd Redding:

Contacts:

Coastal BC Todd Redding, M.Sc., P.Ag. Suite 400, 235 1st Avenue Kamloops, BC, V2C 3J4 Phone: (250) 713-1184 Fax: (250) 371-3997 Email: Todd.Redding@forrex.org