The Beaufort Watershed Stewards work to promote the health and resilience of local watersheds in the Beaufort Range and to ensure the quality and quantity of fresh water for the future.
We respectfully acknowledge that the watersheds we depend on are on the unceded traditional territory of the K’ómoks, Pentlatch and Qualicum First Nations, the traditional keepers of this land.
info@beaufortwater.org
PO Box 253, Union Bay, BC V0R 3B0
We want to acknowledge the ongoing support that Brian from Lighthouse Feed and Garden provides through his collection of refundables. Beaufort Watershed Stewards is one of the lucky organizations to benefit from his support, and this has become one of our most reliable sources of income. So hats off to …
Mission The Beaufort Watershed Stewards work to promote the health and resilience of local watersheds in the Beaufort Range and to ensure the quality and quantity of fresh water for the future. Stream Monitoring Stream monitoring is a core component of our activities. It provides baseline and ongoing data on the …
SOURCE: Code Blue BC. In 2021, the BC Government invested $27 million in the health and security of BC’s watersheds, putting 750 British Columbians to work across 60+ watershed projects in every corner of BC. This work has become known as the Healthy Watersheds Initiative. Now, in order to keep …
AUTHOR: Derrick Penner SOURCE: Vancouver Sun, 21 July 2021 IMAGE CREDIT: Haisla First Nation, Vancouver Sun, PNG Click “read more” for LINK to Article
SOURCE: CBC’s “What on Earth” with Laura Lynch AIRED: 4 July 2021. 33 min. This is an outstanding documentary on the critical role of our forests during the climate crisis. Click HERE on the ‘read more’ page for the link to the documentary
What a grand idea to celebrate Earth Day 2021 with a community nature walk in an old growth stand in a local Beaufort Watershed. Originally advertised as two walks with ten people each we were overwhelmed with over 35 requests. Due to provincial Covid health orders, we had to scale …
Tests are important. They allow us to assess progress and gauge preparedness. Some of us still remember tests from school. (And some of us, who were chronically unprepared, may not have the fondest memories of those tests.) But what’s better than the feeling you get when you pass a test …
It’s fun to make new friends. They offer new perspectives and provide new information. They also present challenges and opportunity. Of course, new friends don’t replace old friends. We at Beaufort Watershed Stewards (BWS) have no plans to abandon our old friends, Wilfred, Cowie, Mud Bay, Hart, and Waterloo but …
You can’t see the specific conductivity of water but you can measure it. Can you taste it? Our YSI meter measures specific conductivity and gives us a precise number (microSiemens per centimetre). Specific Conductivity is useful as an indication of mineral content. Are there other ways to determine specific conductivity? …
For the Beaufort Watershed Stewards it is our ambitions that have grown the most in the past several months. Stream sampling, our first love, is our core activity. It’s been a couple of years since those heady, early days when we were setting up the program and making lots of …
