Report prepared by Rory Masters and Joe Karpinski, students in BCIT’s Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program.

British Columbia’s climate is determined by the topography, pacific cyclones, polar air masses, a large jet stream, and the Pacific Ocean. British Columbia is a very unique province. Only here can you relax on a beach then drive two hours and be skiing on a glacier.

Air masses and flows that control our climates

During summer months the Arctic warms up and the entire weather system shifts north and weakens in strength.

"Super, natural British Columbia", a term coined by Tourism B.C., is the westernmost province in Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the province of Alberta. It is characterized by rugged mountains, thousands of islands along its 27,000 square kilometre coastline, marshes, glaciers, old growth forests, and an extensive waterway system, including major river systems, such as the Fraser and Peace rivers.

Report prepared by Dan Straker and Olivia Hell, students in BCIT’s Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program.

You may think that the alpine zone is just a bunch of rocks and snow, good for skiing. While much of it is, certain parts of the alpine can be the most beautifully colourful and biodiverse in the world. While different plants and wildlife meet in this treeless zone to compete for the rare nutrients it has to offer, only the most highly specialized survive.

Report prepared by students in BCIT’s Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program.

B.C. is the most ecologically diverse province in Canada. There have been attempts to identify, classify, and map the extraordinary diversity of B.C.’s ecosystems. Dr. V.J Krajina, a plant ecologist in the Department of Botany at the University of British Columbia, developed a system to classify the ecosystems or “biogeoclimatic zones” by their climates and their dominant vegetation.

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