Bears
The year that the Nanwakolas grizzly bear monitoring began
What is 2018
The name of the collaborative partner on the elk project (hint: sounds like a marine mammal)
What is the Ministry of WLRS
The Nation's policy governing Large Cultural Cedar on the territories
What is the LCC Protocol
The name of this sensor sounds like a small donut
What is a Tidbit
CEWS is the short name for this long-term project
What is Coastal Experimental Watersheds
Protect these species and you can protect multiple ecosystems
What is an umbrella species
Places where elk like to pee, roll around, and breed
What is a wallow
The three types of Large Cultural Cedar are determined by these measures
What is tree diameter and cultural log length
Autocorrect makes this look like someone's name, but it's actually an environmental monitoring technology
What is "eDNA"
The two key things we are looking for in a long term study stream
What is 1) consistency and 2) minimal disturbance
The three things being monitored over time for bears
What is habitat use, distribution and movement
These pathways connect seasonal ranges and are critical routes elk use each spring and fall
What is a migration corridor
Guardians survey redcedar trees to identify if they are Large Cultural Cedar or one of these other two values
What are 1) bear dens or 2) culturally modified trees (CMT)
This special type of photography helps estimate the amount of sunlight (or shade) over a stream
What is canopy/hemispheric/fish-eye-lens photography
This type of stream bed material is bigger than a lady bug but smaller than a tennis ball
What is gravel
Important food resource for bears not currently included in BC policies
What is intertidal zone foods
Protecting areas important to elk ensures communities can continue this long-standing cultural practice
What is hunting/harvesting
The policy that regulates cedar harvesting in the Great Bear Rainforest
What is the Great Bear Rainforest Land Use Order (Indigenous Tree Use Objectives)
The stream temperature data collected is being used to predict impacts from these two things
What is 1) climate change and 2) forestry
The impacts of these two things are being tested through this project.
What is stream buffers and/or what is retention
The bear project can directly inform this aspect of the Great Bear Rainforest Land Use Order
What is Landscape Reserve Design
Guardians play a vital role in these two aspects of both the elk and bear projects
What is data collection and analysis
The word for yellow cedar in Kwak'wala
What is dixw
Most of the stream temperature sensors are installed a certain distance upstream to avoid
What is tidal/salt water/ocean water influence
The most common forest structural stage we have seen during field surveys
What is young forest