Columbia Lake Foreshore Integrated Management Planning – 2021.

This dataset contains the openly accessible data for the FIMP survey carried out on Columbia Lake in 2021. Columbia Lake is located in the southern interior of British Columbia (BC), near Canal Flats and Fairmont Hot Springs, BC. In response to concerns over the fast pace of development and potential for important fish and wildlife habitat to be lost, Foreshore Inventory and Mapping (FIM) was conducted in 2009 and included FIM field surveys, the development of an Aquatic Habitat Index (AHI) and corresponding Shoreline Management Guidelines (SMG). Twelve years had passed since the original FIM was conducted and there was an interest in updating the previous field surveys and corresponding analyses to evaluate rates of change (e.g., development), observe whether integrated policies have been working, identify additional important habitat and species at risk and update the Columbia Lake FIM dataset using standard Foreshore Integrated Management Planning (FIMP) methods that were updated in 2020.