Beaver Creek: An ecological baseline survey

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Syncrude Canada Ltd.

• The study reported here was initiated on July 26, 1971, to provide ecological baseline information on Beaver Creek. Field surveys were carried out from August 7th to August 24th. Of particular interest to this study was the acquisition of quantitative data on fisheries populations as a means of determining if harvestable populations of sport fish occur in Beaver Creek. Specific objectives of the study were as follows: 1) To conduct a fisheries habitat survey. 2) To conduct systematic sampling of invertebrate fauna. 3) To conduct systematic sampling of the fish populations. 4) To attempt identification of spawning areas. 5) To assess the use made of Beaver Creek by inhabitants of the Fort McMurray area for fishing and other forms of water-oriented recreation. 6) To assess the relative importance of Beaver Creek in a regional context.

• Date created

  1973

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Oil Sands
  • Surveys
  • Fish
  • Beaver Creek
  • Oil sands
  • Tar Sands
  • Tar sands
  • Syncrude
  • Habitat
  • Environmental Research Monograph 1973-2
  • Alberta
  • Baseline
  • Canada, Alberta, Fort McMurray

• Type of Item

  Report

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3GV16

• License

  Conditions of Use Syncrude Canada Ltd., 1973. Beaver Creek: An ecological baseline survey. Syncrude Canada Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta. Environmental Research Monograph 1973-2. 39 pp. Permission for non-commercial use, publication or presentation of excerpts or figures is granted, provided appropriate attribution (as above) is cited. Commercial reproduction, in whole or in part, is not permitted without prior written consent. The use of these materials by the end user is done without any affiliation with or endorsement by Syncrude Canada Ltd. Reliance upon the end user's use of these materials is at the sole risk of the end user.