To main objectives: Build a seamless, routed stream network across WAM tiles Apply a process based, riparian zone delineation tool Riparian Processes.

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To main objectives: Build a seamless, routed stream network across WAM tiles Apply a process based, riparian zone delineation tool Riparian Processes Depth to water (WAM) Floodplains In-stream wood recruitment Current vegetation shade effects on thermal energy to streams Add E nvironmental Settings (not included) Channel types Habitat (fish) potential Hillslope erosion potential Channel migration Thermal refugia Tributary confluence zones Wildfire risk Climate change

Conceptual Framework

Project Area

Figure 12. The Integrated WAM-NetMap node based synthetic stream layer with drainage wings.

Figure 15. Sinuosity of the stream lines in the Integrated WAM-NetMap is significantly greater than natural river channels in the study area.

Riparian Process/Delineation Parameters (units)Environmental Settings Parameters (units) Synthetic Stream Layer (Integrated WAM-NetMap)Channel Classification (types)* Depth to Water (WAM, in meters)Stream order (Strahler 1952) Drainage area (km 2 )Channel confinement (LL -1 ) Elevation (m)Entrenchment ratio (LL -1 )* Gradient (LL -1 )Hillslope erosion potential (GEP) Azimuth (0 – 360 o )Sinuosity (LL -1 ) Bankfull width (m)Tributary confluence effects (P) Bankfull depth (m) Thermal refugia (watt-hours/m 2 or indexed by contributing area) Valley Elevations/Floodplain width (n=5, m)Channel Migration Zone (m)* Topography (slope, curvature, distance to stream)Maximum downstream gradient (LL -1 ) Mean annual flow (m 3 s -1 )Aquatic (Fish) Habitats* Mean annual precipitation (m)Mean annual flow (m 3 s -1 ) Thermal Energy to Channels (Bare Earth, watt-hours /m 2 )Summer habitat volume (m 3 )* Current Shade (tree height and basal area)Wildfire risk** In-stream wood recruitment (tree height, stand density, diameter classes) Climate change forecasts** Riparian vegetation (basal area, average tree height, average stand density, quadratic mean diameter) Table 1. List of attributes contained within the Integrated WAM-NetMap to support spatially explicit riparian zone delineation and environmental settings.

Figure 13. An illustration of valley floor mapping in the Integrated WAM-NetMap.

Figure 17. An example of two different types of valley floor and floodplain mapping in the Simonette River basin.

Figure 16. The WAM depth to water in the Simonette River pilot project area compared to floodplain mapping.

Figure 19. Bare earth radiation loading to streams in the Simonette River -latitude -solar angle -topographic shading -stream width -stream azimuth -vegetation height -vegetation width -vegetation density

Shade model (Groom et al. 2011) uses basal area and tree height

Figure 20. Current streamside shade influenced thermal energy to streams using basal area and tree height.

Spatially explicit, variable width riparian zone delineation model

Predicted Spatial Variability in Delineated Riparian Zone in the Simonette basin