Wildlife Effects Monitoring Program, Appendices, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, January 2001)
This 2000 Wildlife Effects Monitoring Program report presents appendices documenting scientific hypotheses testing and habitat suitability index (HSI) modelling for valued ecosystem components at the Ekati Diamond Mine. The document summarizes findings for caribou, grizzly bears, wolves, wolverines, and birds, and provides detailed HSI models for caribou spring migration and summer/fall foraging, and grizzly bears across four seasons, tracking habitat changes from pre-development through 2000 with incremental mine expansion.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Golder Associates
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Misery Road, Exeter Lake, Ursula Lake, Paul Lake, Lac du Sauvage
- Parameters
- caribou habitat suitability, grizzly bear habitat suitability, wolf presence, wolverine presence, upland breeding birds, loons, raptors, habitat loss, vehicle collisions, aircraft collisions, disturbance effects, reclamation, spring migration, summer/fall foraging, vegetation cover, lichen, sedge, shrub
- Pages
- 63
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