Parks Canada

44 datasets found
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    Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network - Mount Revelstoke

    Benthic macro-invertebrate diversity, stream hydrology, water chemistry, climate, geology, and landcover are collected at randomly selected sites using a standard protocol for the assessment of stream condition and are being monitored both at reference and impacted sites. The overall scope or aim...
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    Parks Canada
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    Invasive Alien Plants - Mount Revelstoke

    The main objective of the measure is to monitor how Invasive Alien Plant percent cover, a recognized stressor to native biodiversity, currently compares to pre-determined thresholds and how it is changing over time across the three different Invasive Plant Management Zones (Integrated Control,...
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    Parks Canada
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    Subalpine Wildflowers - Mount Revelstoke

    Subalpine wildflower meadows occur at high elevations in mountainous environments, and are characterized by spectacularly diverse and showy wildflower meadows interspersed with stands of subalpine tree species. The subalpine wildflower meadows on the summit of Mount Revelstoke and Glacier are...
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    Parks Canada
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    Air Quality - Mount Revelstoke

    This project measures air quality at an Environment Canada Global Atmospheric Passive Sampling (GAPS) station located at Miller Lake in Mount Revelstoke National Park. Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are collected using a sorbent-impregnated polyurethane foam (SIP) disk and concentrations...
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    Parks Canada
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    Wildlife Mortality - Revelstoke

    Glacier and Mount Revelstoke National Parks are bisected by a major national commercial highway (Hwy #1). Vehicle collisions with wildlife are a major stressor and have serious social, economic, and ecological impacts. Animals crossing highways are at risk of mortality and people traveling in...
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    Parks Canada
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    • CSV
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    Whitebark Pine Seed data - Glacier

    Whitebark pine is considered a “keystone species” mountain national parks, as it plays several important ecological roles where it exists in subalpine environments. Its survival has been threatened by the combined effects of fire suppression, climate change, mountain pine beetle outbreaks and a...
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    Parks Canada
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    Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network - Glacier

    Benthic macro-invertebrate diversity, stream hydrology, water chemistry, climate, geology, and landcover are collected at randomly selected sites using a standard protocol for the assessment of stream condition and are being monitored both at reference and impacted sites. The overall scope or aim...
    Organization:
    Parks Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
  • Open Data

    Invasive Alien Plants - Glacier

    The main objective of the measure is to monitor how Invasive Alien Plant percent cover, a recognized stressor to native biodiversity, currently compares to pre-determined thresholds and how it is changing over time across the three different Invasive Plant Management Zones (Integrated Control,...
    Organization:
    Parks Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
  • Open Data

    Whitebark Pine - Glacier

    Whitebark pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola) is an introduced pathogen affecting whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) and limber pine (Pinus flexilis). Whitebark pine is an endangered species protected under the Federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) and Limber pine is designated as an endangered...
    Organization:
    Parks Canada
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    • CSV
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    Wildlife Mortality - Glacier

    Glacier and Mount Revelstoke National Parks are bisected by a major national commercial highway (Hwy #1). Vehicle collisions with wildlife are a major stressor and have serious social, economic, and ecological impacts. Animals crossing highways are at risk of mortality and people traveling in...
    Organization:
    Parks Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
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    Kootenay_NP_Freshwater_Amphibian Visual Surveys

    Kootenay National Park samples 28 randomly selected potential amphibian breeding sites (out of possible 66) to determine presence or absence of amphibian species. Each of the 28 sites is visited 3 times every 2 years and all detected species are recorded.
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    Parks Canada
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    Forest Non-Native Vegetation - Kootenay

    Kootenay National Park monitors invasive alien plants with the use of permanent, random stratified, transects established in each of the three management zones, in close proximity to vectors of spread (highways, trails, campgrounds, etc.). Percent cover of all detected non-native species is...
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    Parks Canada
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    • CSV
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    Alpine Non - Native Vegetation Kootenay

    Kootenay National Park monitors invasive alien plants with the use of permanent, random stratified, belt transects established in the alpine. Occurrence frequency of all detected non-native species is recorded along a belt transect.
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    Parks Canada
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    • CSV
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    Forest Area Burned - Kootenay

    The Area Burned Condition Class (ABCC) measure is based closely on the fire cycle concept and assesses the degree of departure from historic or reference area burned levels within a park. ABCC provides an indication on the state of fire as an ecological process. ABCC was developed as a medium to...
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    Parks Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
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    Lake Fish Index - Kootenay

    The Kootenay National Park measures the condition of lake fish communities by the level of deviation of current fish presence in a lake from historic, pre-stocking fish presence.
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    Parks Canada
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    • CSV
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    Forest Non-Native Vegetation - Yoho

    Yoho National Park monitors invasive alien plants with the use of permanent, random stratified, transects established in each of the three management zones, in close proximity to vectors of spread (highways, trails, campgrounds, etc.). Percent cover of all detected non-native species is recorded...
    Organization:
    Parks Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
  • Open Data

    Alpine Non - Native Vegetation - Yoho

    Yoho National Park monitors invasive alien plants with the use of permanent, random stratified, belt transects established in the alpine. Occurrence frequency of all detected non-native species is recorded along a belt transect.
    Organization:
    Parks Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
  • Open Data

    Lake Fish Index - Yoho

    The Yoho National Park measures the condition of lake fish communities by the level of deviation of current fish presence in a lake from historic, pre-stocking fish presence.
    Organization:
    Parks Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
  • Open Data

    Area Burned - Yoho

    The Area Burned Condition Class (ABCC) measure is based closely on the fire cycle concept and assesses the degree of departure from historic or reference area burned levels within a park. ABCC provides an indication on the state of fire as an ecological process. ABCC was developed as a medium to...
    Organization:
    Parks Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
  • Open Data

    Aquatic-Water Connectivity - Glacier

    This is a multi-park measure, which includes an inventory and assessment of 1,754 culvert and 51 bridge locations along the major highways and roads in Banff, Kootenay, Yoho, Waterton Lakes, Mount Revelstoke, and Glacier national parks. In Glacier National Park the capacity for fish passage above...
    Organization:
    Parks Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV