Wildfires are common in western watersheds and are a natural form of disturbance in forests. Although low and moderate severity fires can provide long-term benefits to forest and watershed health, high intensity fires can result in significant increases in runoff and erosion which increases the sediment load. This can negatively impact water quality in the streams, lakes and rivers within a watershed. This project focused on the delineation of Arrow Lakes watershed and identifies the extent and severity of forest fire burn areas in 2018.The delineation was created in order to define the study area and to indicate the areas of concern should a water quality issue arise. Forest burn data was used to determine if there were large areas of high severity burns as this could indicate water quality concerns. BEC zones in this basin were used to determine whether vegetation type influenced extent and severity
