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Download or read book Khyex - Tyee Fish Habitat Works written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1988, the Ministry undertook fish habitat works at three site on the Skeena River to compensate for riparian vegetagion losses which resulted from the re-construction of Highway 16 east of Prince Rupert. The three sites were protected by rock spurs. At one site, the existing foreshore was elevated and planted with donor vegetation from unimpacted nearby marshes. After completion, natural deposition, induced by the rock spurs, caused further vegetative losses. Since 1994, there has been an increase in vegetated habitat in all three sites. This is attributed to the sites reaching a more stable state in the fluvial environment and a subsequent increase in natural recolonization at the sites. The project is expected to reach a No Net Loss state through foreshore vegetation in 1999 and to ultimately return more vegetative habitat than was lost.