More than $800,000 in fresh funds from the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation will be split among projects in the Skeena Region.
That includes a joint-investment of over $30,000 into a predator habitat-use study alongside the Forest Enhancement Society of BC.
It will compare the impacts of partial logging on habitat use and selection to the impacts of traditional logging and unlogged forests, with a focus on the marten and red-listed fisher.
Nearly $100,000 will also go towards road restoration to reduce human and predator access to the Tweedsmuir-Entiako caribou herd.
$56,000 will help restore fish passages at road crossings in Skeena watersheds, and $84,000 will go to monitoring habitat use and migration of Tawéi, or thin-horned sheep, near Atlin.
Another $61,000 will help address knowledge gaps in the distribution, movements, and exploitation of Bull Trout and Dolly Varden in the lower Nass and middle Skeena.
Those are just a few of the 168 projects receiving a combined $8 million in fresh funding from the Foundation.
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