WELCOME TO QRRC than 2.5 million chinook QUESNEL WATERSHED OFFERS: The QRRC is a world- and coho salmon and • the Quesnel, Cariboo and the Horsefly Rivers, and a multitude of small class research centre rainbow trout fry annually. lakes and streams; that provides a setting for Strong community pressure • a variety of biogeoclimatic zones and sub-zones within the area; • the 6,060 hectare Cariboo River Protected Area; he University of Northern collaboration involving to save the facility upon • anadromous salmonids such as Chinook, Coho, sockeye, and pink salmon; researchers from UNBC its closure in 1995 and the • non-anadromous fish such as rainbow trout, bull trout, dolly varden and and other kokanee; TBritish Columbia’s Quesnel River awarding of • other fish species such as burbot, mountain whitefish, northern provincial, an endowment pikeminnow, longnose dace, peamouth chub, redside shiner, and suckers; national and fund for • the Cariboo Mountains and its varied wildlife, including grizzly and black Research Centre (QRRC) is ideally bear, wolverine, cougar, lynx, caribou, elk, moose, deer, mountain goat, international Landscape beaver, martin, weasel, waterfowl, raptors and dozens more species of situated for both land and aquatic universities, Ecology by birds; government • historical large-scale hydraulic placer mining such as the Bullion Pit which Forest Renewal is 120 metres deep, 3 kilometres long, and where >9 million cubic metres of based research and university agencies, BC in 2002 gravel were hydraulically removed into the Quesnel River; other Students studying carbon levels in the soil near Likely. resulted in the • current open pit and placer mining operations; • active forest harvesting and management by major licencees; education. The Quesnel research centers, facility being granted another • a Community Forest joint venture between Xat’súll First Nation and Likely; and industry. The life as a year round research • other land uses, including cattle ranching, woodlots and market farms; • a Fisheries and Oceans fish ladder at Cariboo Falls River watershed drains centre also offers field and educational centre that Photo- view of Penfold creek, flowing into the Mitchell river; headwaters of the Quesnel river watershed. study opportunities to offers the following amenities: Photo- waterfalls at Blue Lead creek, east arm of Quesnel lake. undergraduate and • fully equipped laboratory RESEARCH & EDUCATION 12,000 square kilometers graduate students, • instructional facilities of these volumes of WHAT IS LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY? • seminar and workshop capabilities The Quesnel river summer field schools, as • audio visual equipment water is an important • research technical support rises high in the landscape-level in the central interior well as extension services • accommodation with full kitchen glacier- Landscape Landscapes are Key research • research and extension office space factor. The ecology is an spatially diverse topics in and seminar facilities for • wireless satellite internet capped streams which interdisciplinary geographic areas landscape of British Columbia’s non-university user groups. • jet boats/lake boats Cariboo arise in the • adjacent river and lake access mountains. field of study made up of vari- ecology include: The QRRC was originally a • 4x4 vehicles mountains • six 30m outdoor flumes This area flow westward that examines ous ecosystems, ecological flows Cariboo region. fish hatchery rearing more • scientific field instruments and gear provides the composition, ranging from in landscape • aquaculture facilities including through the incubation and rearing excellent Quesnel structure, and relatively natural mosaics, land Quesnel Lake is the • well and river water opportunities Highlands function of terrestrial and use and land • wet lab for climate- • mechanic/woodworking shop which feature landscapes. A aquatic systems cover change, • standby power related Grizzly paw prints. globally- landscape is such as forests, scaling, relating third largest lake in BC • walk in cooler and freezer research. significant and simply an area of grasslands, and landscape • local knowledge The snow ancient interior land (at any scale) lakes to human pattern pack in the rain forests. Researcher in flumes. containing an dominated envi- analysis with (104 km long) and is the mountains This river system feeding Quesnel Lake is part of the much interesting pattern ronments includ- ecological deepest fjord lake in the world with Sockeye salmon with a device reaches an annual larger Fraser Basin that affects ing agricultural processes. that measures sediment. depth of 2-3 metres, which drains about (and is effected) and urban set- releasing large 30% of the area by ecological tings. a confirmed depth of 510 m; it also volumes of water in of BC and is home processes. the spring and early to over 60% of its features 500 km of shoreline. This river summer. The flow population. Photo- spawning sockeye salmon in Quesnel lake. Grizzly bear cub. system supports five salmon species The facilities at QRRC: 1 Utilize fully equipped labo- 3 Take advantage of the 5 There is adjacent river and and numerous other species, including ratory (left) and wet lab. research and extension lake access, as well as jet office space and satellite boats and lake boats. 2 Stay in fully equipped, internet access. 6 View many land and aquatic all-season residence (far steelhead and sturgeon. species in many different right) with full kitchen. 4 Use our aquaculture fa- habitats. cilities including incubation and rearing capacity. The Dr. Max Blouw Quesnel River Research Centre Likely, British Columbia Canada The northeast Cariboo lies within the traditional territories of the Shuswap First Peoples, who For more information about Phone: (250) 790-2031 refer to themselves as “Secwepemc.” Secwepemc territory covers approximately 145,000 the Quesnel River Research Facsimile: (250) 790-2032 square kilometers, extending from Shuswap Lake in the south to Quesnel Lake in the north, and Centre please contact: or visit our website at: from the Columbia-Kootenay Range in the east to the Alexis Creek area in the west. The Shus- The community of Likely has a year round population of approximately 300 www.unbc.ca/qrrc wap Nation is part of the Interior Salish People. The Salish People cover the area from the Coast residents and twice as many during the summer months. Traditionally, Likely (Coastal Salish) from northern British Columbia to Washington State to the Cariboo region. has been a mining and logging community with recreation and tourism becom- The Secwepemc Nation has 17 autonomous bands that are united by a common language and ing an increasingly important part of the local economy. cultural belief system. The four First Nations members in the Cariboo are Xat’súll (Soda Creek Band), Cm’etem (Deep Creek Band), T’exelc (Williams Lake Band), Tsq’escen’ (Canim Lake Band), and Stswecem’c/Xgat’tem (Canoe Creek Band/Dog Creek Band)..