Funded by Columbia Basin Trust St. Mary River 116°0'0"W #Hyak Mtn A watershed is an area of land in which all rain and snow runoff and small tributaries drain into a common body of water such as a creek, river or lake. Pert Peak # Mt Sabine Columbia Lake # Sun Lake # # Mt Toby Whitetail Lake Mt St. Maur Whiteswan Lake WHITESWAN LAKE PARK THUNDER HILL PARK Mt Katherine Moose Lake Barn Mtn #Mt Christine #Griswold # Peak # Eagle Nest Lake PURCELL WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY CORRIDOR PROTECTED 50°10'0"N al S co t e oo y a M Copper Lake Larsen Lake PURCELL WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY PARK tC The City of Cranbrook's water source is Joseph Creek, which is part of the St. Mary River watershed. k k b ek re ek Marten Lake Elizabeth Lake ep h Jo s Weasel Lakes C re e k S mi th Cre e k Johnson Lake Larchwood Lake Premier Lake Canuck Lake Yankee Lake PREMIER LAKE PARK 1,600 # Pyatts Lake Do 1,700 Mt Baker ra n Jim Smith Lake 50°0'0"N 1,800 Cr ee k Ji m Joseph Creek Elevation Profile 1,900 Tamarack Lake Rockbluff Lake 1,500 1,400 1,300 P e av 1,200 1,100 1,000 in e Cr ee JOSEPH COMMUNITY WATERSHED Phyllodoce Lakes Bleak LakeCanning Lake Nowitka Lake 900 McNair Lakes k 800 0 2,000 4,000 Elevation change in metres 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 16,000 18,000 20,000 22,000 24,000 26,000 28,000 30,000 32,000 34,000 36,000 TOP OF THE WORLD PARK Fish Lake Echoes Lakes ST. MARY'S ALPINE PARK St. Mary River Watershed is within the Columbia Basin in southeastern BC Keer Lake Price LakeBergstrom Lake C Totem Lake Pestle Lake Stair Lakes Mortar LakeHuggard Lake Spade Lake g Ho g Lost Dog Lake lm er B a Pru d Mo y ie Cranbrook m Hahas Lake Berglien Lake Saugum Lake Moyie Mtn 49°40'0"N # Hiawatha Lake R i ve r m ho e C r e ek Mt Joseph Co t McGinty Lake GOLD COMMUNITY WATERSHED to n Cr Paved Roads CONSERVATION k r ee 1 2 Horseshoe Lake Bock Lake 3 Kilometres St. Mary Lake Norbury Lakes NORBURY LAKE PARK Hall Lake Glaciers AGRICULTURE dC 49°40'0"N Community Watershed DOMESTIC 0 Gol Rivers Mineral Lake Reade Lake Pattons Lake Lakes FIRE GroundWaterAquifer POWER BC Parks and protected areas WATERWORKS b New Lake Cranbrook es COMMERCIAL Water Licenses Elmer Lake pl Gravel Roads Cliff Lake b ee Mountain Peaks Lone Peak# St # Mt Fisher# Th e Other Communities k Rail b Nicol Lake Dipper Lake Moyie Lake Transportation Bartholomew Lake Kimberley ee Monroe Lake Communities Sowerby Lake Jurak Lake # Legend Wasa Lake Ta Ta Lake k Golden r Ruault Lake Summer Lake ee 49°50'0"N Hunters Lake Cranbrook Mtn # Reed Lakes WASA LAKE PARK Lytle Lake Hodgson LakesBird Lakes Cr ¹ Lazy Lake re ek Pa 49°50'0"N Sparkle Lake Lyallii Lake Nelson 50°0'0"N r ee St. Mary River Watershed contains all the land, rivers and streams that drain into St. Mary River. Cranbrook RAM CREEK ECOLOGICAL RESERVE dC ek C re Cr spit Ar Ho no l For example, the Columbia Basin, or watershed, is the large land base where all the water that falls as precipitation will eventually drain from, through a system of lakes, rivers, streams, reservoirs and glaciers, into the Columbia River. This water will eventually flow into the Pacific Ocean. 49°30'0"N Alkaline Lake Elizabeth Lake National Parks St. Mary River Watershed Kiakho Lakes Jim Smith Lake White Boar Lake Ailsa Lake Bronze Lake Mt Baker# Pyatts Lake Bednorski Lake Lund Lake Edith Lake Haha Lake WARDNER PARK Koocanusa, Lake www.wildsight.ca Know Your Watershed is developed and delivered in co-operation with Wildsight education team 49°30'0"N Map designed by Kristen Milburn Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre 22 August 2011 KIANUKO PARK 5 10 Kilometres 15 Cranbrook Mtn# Hiawatha Lake Richmond Lake MOYIE LAKE PARK Moyie Mtn# Mt Joseph# 49°20'0"N Monroe Lake NAD 1983 Albers 1:120,000 0 Negro Lake LOCKHART CREEK PARK Moyie Lake Mineral Lake 116°0'0"W #