1401 1 St W
Revelstoke BC
Canada
Start Date: June 23, 2025
End Date: June 25, 2025
Time: 9am - 5pm
City: Revelstoke BC
Venue: Classroom venue Okanagan College: 1401 1 St W, Revelstoke. Various field sites
This course is designed to introduce students to the basics of wetland identification and classification. Students will be introduced to the foundations of how to recognize, map, classify, and describe wetlands using the Canadian Wetland Classification System and will provide an overview for identifying common wetland ecosystem sites and plant associations using the Wetlands of British Columbia and other updated Land Management Handbooks (LMH). Other topics such as wetland delineation and assessment (function and condition) will be introduced but are not the focus of this course.
The course will begin with a classroom session introducing how to identify and classify wetlands using the primary indicators of soils, hydrology and vegetation while utilizing resources to describe these indicators. Students will practice using common field forms such as those included in the Field Manual for Describing Terrestrial Ecosystems (LMH 25) (FS8882 and FS1333).
The field component will include 3-4 field site visits around the Revelstoke area to local wetlands to practice classification and descriptions using site forms and the Wetlands of British Columbia (LMH 52) guidebook.
Students taking this course should walk away with the ability to confidently identify and classify wetlands and gain familiarity with commonly used field forms and other resources.
A detailed course outline is available upon request.