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If your research project is of interest to others in our area, send us your information and we will include it in our listings. For 2013, this is a service available to CMI members only (Join here.)

Archive of CMI Member Bulletins
BC Hydro CD: Ancillary Benefits of Reservoir Drawdown Revegetation in the Upper Arrow Reservoir (2004)
CMI Conference Summaries
CMI List of Regional Research Projects
Mountain Caribou Compendium
Mountain Caribou Film Clip
National Park Feature Articles
Research Highlights
Suggested Protocol for authorship, acknowledgements, data sharing and specimen use

Archive of CMI Member Bulletins

Members of the Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology receive regular news updates by email. Content is presented in "digest" style, and includes items of interest to people working in the various fields of applied ecology in southeastern British Columbia. Members send information about publications, conferences, web sites, funding opportunities, job postings, etc. to the CMI office, where it is compiled and sent out in a bulletin at the rate about one per month. Members also receive advance notice of courses and conferences.

For the benefit of non-CMI members, the following links provide access to archived CMI member updates. Some emails have been edited for the sake of brevity, and aged hyperlinks are not working reliably.

BC Hydro Reports:
Evaluation of Ancillary Benefits of Reservoir Drawdown Zone Revegetation in the Upper Arrow Reservoir

In May 2004, the BC Hydro Strategic Environmental Initiatives Program created a compilation CD containing reports pertaining to the benefits of revegetation of the Upper Arrow Reservoir drawdown zone. See list of titles on the CD, below.

You can download the CD: The file is a large download at 36 MB. The file is a compressed zip archive that will need to be extracted after download. Windows XP users can do this natively, but other operating systems may require unzipping software such as WinZip. Click the link below to download:

Download CD Program (36MB ZIP Archive)
After unzipping the file, open "BCH_START.pdf" to run the program.

CD Table of Contents:

Overview Report

Evaluation of Ancillary Benefits of Reservoir Drawdown Zone Revegetation in the Upper Arrow Reservoir: Overview Report - Michael McPhee and Edward Hill, May 2003

Vegetation Studies

Summary Report on Vegetation and Soil Analyses for the 1999 Pilot Study - Revelstoke Reach - Upper Arrow Reservoir - Anne Moody and CARR Environmental Consultants, May 2000
Synthesis of Vegetation and Soil Studies for Revelstoke Reach - Upper Arrow Reservoir - Anne Moody and CARR Environmental Consultants, May 2002
Vegetation Mapping (1968-2000) of Dust Control Treatment Areas - Revelstoke Reach - Upper Arrow Reservoir - Anne Moody, March 2002
Long-Term Monitoring of Vegetation Expansion and Trials in the Dust Control Treatment Areas of Revelstoke Reach - Upper Arrow Reservoir - Anne Moody, March 2002
Quantification of Vegetation Inputs to Revelstoke Reach Summary of 2000 Field Program - Vegetation and Soil Analyses - Anne Moody and CARR Environmental Consultants, July 2002
Vegetation Benefits to Fish: A Literature Review - Anne Moody, CARR Environmental Consultants, and J.G. Stockner, April 2000

Aquatic Studies

Biofilm, Invertebrates and Fish Communities Associated with Vegetation Strata in the Drawdown Zone of the Arrow Lakes Reservoir - Final Report - C.J. Perrin and J.G. Stockner, March 2002

Wildlife Studies

Columbia River-Revelstoke Migration Monitoring Station Final Banding Report for 2001 - Janice Jarvis, 2002
Songbird Use of Floodplain Vegetation Types in the Revelstoke Reach, Upper Arrow Reservoir, British Columbia Canada - John Boulanger, John Woods, and Janice Jarvis, April 2002
Waterbirds of the Revelstoke Reach Wetlands, Upper Arrow Reservoir, Revelstoke, British Columbia Canada - John Woods and Janice Jarvis, June 2001

Recreation Studies

Upper Arrow Seeding and Recreation Study - Marc Pederson, August 2001
Group and Organized Recreation Activities in the Upper Arrow Reservoir Drawdown Zone - Michael McPhee, March 2002

Ecological Modelling

Simulating the Response of Aquatic and Riparian Productivity to Reservoir Operations: Description of the Vegetation and Littoral Components of BC Hydro's Integrated Response Model (IRM) - Josh Korman, December 2002

Conference Summaries

A conference summary is prepared for each CMI conference. These are compilations of the abstracts and text summaries provide by our presenters. Find them in the Past Events section. Follow the link to the conference that interests you and look for the link to the free PDF download. Conference summaries are not peer reviewed.

Mountain Caribou Compendium

The Mountain Caribou Compendium is a set of over 180 journal articles, reports and other information about the ecology and management of southeastern British Columbia’s threatened Mountain Caribou populations. In May of 2010 the Compendium moved from the CMI office to the library of Selkirk College, Castlegar campus.

You can download an index and abstracts for the Mountain Caribou Compendium as a Microsoft Word document. To find reports, open the downloaded file, and use your Microsoft Word “find” function to locate author names or keywords in the document.

Click here to download an MS Word file with the abstracts for the Mountain Caribou Compendium arranged by subject category, updated August 2008 (file size 470 kb).
Click here to download an MS Word file with the abstracts for the Mountain Caribou Compendium arranged in a table, ordered by library accession number (updated August 2008) (file size 540 kb)

About the Mountain Caribou Compendium

The southern populations of woodland caribou, known locally as “mountain caribou,” are listed as a threatened species. Virtually all of the world’s 1800 mountain caribou live in southeastern British Columbia. The Mountain Caribou Compendium is an initiative to improve the accessibility of research results and other information related to the mountain caribou herds of southeastern British Columbia.

Supporting agencies for the Mountain Caribou Compendium

In early 2003 the Revelstoke Forest Workers Society compiled a list of all research reports and other documents relevant to the management of the threatened local mountain caribou populations. The Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology became host for the project, with a commitment to maintain the collection of print materials and make the information available on the internet. Early financial support for the project came from the City of Revelstoke’s “Revelstoke Caribou Recovery Committee” and the Revelstoke Community Forest Corporation. The collection was donated to Selkirk College Castlegar campus in May of 2010.

National Park Feature Articles

Parks Canada is a valued supporter of the Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology. The following information sheets and articles were produced by Michael Morris and Dr, John Woods of Parks Canada, and feature ecological issues related to Mount Revelstoke National Park, Glacier National Park, and the Columbia Mountains.

Bird Ecology

Swans and wetlands near Revelstoke

Birdsongs and soundscapes

Food and genes drive bird migration

Woodpeckers cause cavities

Crossbills use the snowforest

Rare warbler found in migration study

Warbler returns for ninth season

Birds killed on Trans-Canada Highway

Monitoring bird populations in Mount Revelstoke National Park

Lovebirds of Mount Revelstoke by Jen Theberge, Parks Canada.

Research Highlights

The Columbia Mountains Institute rarely conducts research projects. It is our members that do the research. The projects listed below were conducted in southeastern British Columbia over the last decade. Some of the items are "grey literature" and not found in published journals. Please contact the authors directly for more information.

We refer you to Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com as an excellent method to locate published research results.

Mammals

Mountain caribou predator-prey-habitat Expert Panel report

Assessing the fate of persistent organic pollutants in the southern Rocky Mountain region of western Canada

Environmental contaminants and reproductive and physiological condition of wild mink, martens, river otters, and wolverines

Cooperative wolverine study in Columbia Basin

Grizzly bear use of avalanche chutes in the Columbia Mountains

The summer ecology of Myotis species bats in the interior wet-belt of British Columbia

West Slopes Bear Research Project - 1994-1999 synopsis

Plants and Forestry

Post-harvesting windthrow rates

Study of plant community structure and a reclamation evaluation of disturbed subalpine sites in Glacier National Park

Vegetation research and monitoring projects in Mount Revelstoke and Glacier national parks

Physical Environment

Watershed control over dissolved organic matter in alpine lakes of Mount Revelstoke National Park and implications to potential metal pollution

Social Environment

Evaluating ecosystem management in the Columbia Mountains of British Columbia

Contact CMI

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Physical address: Second floor, 200 Campbell Avenue, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada.

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