NEBC Appendix 1-Indicators and Thresholds – 2003

This appendix is part of a report that focuses on one component of an overall strategy for identifying, scoping, assessing and managing cumulative effects within Northeast British Columbia, namely the use of science-based management indicators and thresholds as a tool to clearly identify desired environmental outcomes. The report introduces the innovative concept of tiered ecological management thresholds linked to land use management zones as a cumulative effects management tool. This appendix provides the literature review of ecological indicators and threshold relevant to fish and wildlife management that were considered to arrive at four candidate indicators for northeast British Columbia.

NEBC Appendix 1-Indicators and Thresholds.pdf

Salmo Consulting Inc. 2003. Appendix I: Cumulative Effects: Source, Indicators and Thresholds. Cumulative Effects Assessment and Management for Northeast British Columbia. Volume 2. 114 Pages.