Foreshore Inventory and Mapping (FIM)
& Aquatic Habitat Index
(AHI)
What is the FIM?
The Central Okanagan Foreshore Inventory and Mapping project
completed in 2005 and
the more recent Okanagan
Lake compilation project addresses the current
status of the entire Okanagan Lake foreshore
including the Central Okanagan. It provides agencies
with an easily accessible inventory of land use, shore type, existing riparian condition
and anthropogenic alterations throughout the study area.
What is Aquatic Habitat
Inventory (AHI)?
AHI for Okanagan Lake
provides valuable
information regarding
the estimated habitat
values of different
shoreline areas.
The AHI is a categorical
scale of relative
habitat value that ranks
shoreline segments to
other segments on
Okanagan Lake in a
range between Very High
and Very Low.
What will it be used for?
It will aid in developing land use policies, regulations and standards and is intended
to increase long-term environmental planning capabilities for the protection of
aquatic and riparian habitat within existing local government land-use planning
programs. The project will also serve as a benchmark for regulatory agencies
by documenting current foreshore conditions.
In addition, it will provide evidence for
regulatory investigations and will assess objectives set out in foreshore protection
initiatives.
Who is involved?
The original 2005 project was made possible through contributions from the Real Estate Foundation,
Ministry of Environment, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the District of Lake Country,
the City of Kelowna, the Community Mapping Network and the Regional District of
Central Okanagan.
The more recent
"Okanagan Lake: A
Compilation of the
North, South and Central
Okanagan Lake" project
was facilitated by the
Okanagan Collaborative
Conservation Program (OCCP)
and funded through
the Okanagan
Basin Water Board
along with local, provincial and
federal government
partners.
Available Information
and Links:
The Okanagan Lake:
A Compilation of the
North, South and Central
Okanagan Lake 2011
A complete copy of the report
can be downloaded on a link
available through the
Okanagan
Collaborative Conservation
Program website, which
includes full resolution files
for Parts 6 and 7 however
they are very large.
For more information please contact Regional District of Central Okanagan Environmental
Planning Staff at 250-469-6227,
email
planning@cord.bc.ca or visit
the Okanagan Collaborative
Conservation Program website at
www.okcp.ca
Central Okanagan Lake
Foreshore Plan
(updated 2007, 50 pages)
Central Okanagan Foreshore Inventory and Mapping
(2005)
For more information please contact Regional District of Central Okanagan Environmental
Planning Staff at 250-469-6227
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