Peaceful Enjoyment Disturbance (PED) for Skeena Region
Published by Skeena Stikine District
About this dataset
This data describes a high-level assessment of human industrial disturbance of the land base. For our purposes, peaceful enjoyment is assumed to decrease proportionally with the proximity to roads and is expected to be heavily impacted when a mine is present. The delineation of peaceful enjoyment disturbance categories is based on a simplified framework of the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) of Harshaw and Sheppard (2013). The primary drivers of the assessment results are the presence of roads and the presence of mines. Peaceful enjoyment is a coarse filter, landscape level assessment using the BC Freshwater Atlas 1:20,000 Watershed Assessment Unit (AU) boundaries as the base geographic unit for analysis. In increasing order of disturbance, the categories in the assessment are Primitive (P), Semi-Primitive Non-Motorized (SPNM), Semi-Primitive Motorized (SPM), Roaded Natural (RN), Roaded Modified (RM), and Rural (R).