The Pacific Salmon Explorer is an online tool created by the Pacific Salmon Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to conserving salmon populations near the Skeena River in British Columbia. The website describes itself as "[a] data driven look at salmon habitat & populations" and will be of interest to anyone intrigued by the human impact on salmon populations. In the Habitat Status portion of this website, visitors will find a variety of data and useful infographics about factors that impact salmon populations including, for example, water quality and quantity, vegetation quality, and infrastructure development. In Population Status, visitors can examine a multitude of data about 55 different Conservation Units, or regional salmon populations. Visitors can also check out the status assigned to each Conservation Unit based on this data (good; fair; and poor).
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