Bowser Pod Morning: Chef, Sandy, Thames, Nash (2 sites), Hunts, & Annie (2 sites) Creeks Fanny Bay Pod Morning: Tsable, then upper sites on Cowie, Apple-Cherry, Wilfred, Waterloo, & Mud Bay Creeks Royston Pod Morning: Trent R, Beacon, Bloedel, Spense & Hart Creeks
BWS will have the fun of returning to school and the Mark Isfeld Secondary School EcoFair in Courtenay. We love meeting the next generation of stewards!
We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting our Earth Day Forest Walk again this year. Verna Mumby, local Consulting Arborist also known as "the Tree Lady", will be guiding attendees through the wonderful forest paths along Thames Creek in Bowser. Verna's knowledge of the forest ecosystem is …
An interactive webinar "cafe". Join our two distinguished guest speakers sharing their expertise on forest ecology, conservation, and the role forests play in climate and local resilience. Engage in interactive discussions with our guest speakers and fellow participants to support forest health in our communities. Via zoom - click on …
Our newly trained team of benthic invertebrate samplers will be out for the first time, collecting baseline samples from six streams. These include: Thames, Annie, Waterloo, McNaughton, Bloedel and Emily Creeks. We will be joined by Katie Schulze who has offered to help us with species identification. We expect great …
The River Never Sleeps Festival runs each year thanks to the work of the volunteers of the Fanny Bay Salmonid Enhancement Society. Approximately 30 volunteer groups and environmental organizations host booths to highlight the amazing amount of work done to protect salmon and the environment in this area. A highlight …
Beginning in 2021, the BC Conservation Foundation (BCCF) and Vancouver Island University's (VIU) Applied Environmental Research Labs (AERL) partnered to assess the impacts of tire wear toxins (TWTs), specifically the chemical compound 6PPDQ, along the East Coast of Vancouver Island (ECVI). BCCF and AERL have since collaborated with local First …
Sorting refundable is one of BWS's main revenue sources. That's how we buy a lot of our monitoring equipment and pay for general operating expenses (like the website). Lise is amazing at keeping us all organized and tracking exactly what flows through the sorting system. We welcome new volunteers to …
Sorting refundable is one of BWS's main revenue sources. That's how we buy a lot of our monitoring equipment and pay for general operating expenses (like the website). Lise is amazing at keeping us all organized and tracking exactly what flows through the sorting system. We welcome new volunteers to …
Sorting refundable is one of BWS's main revenue sources. That's how we buy a lot of our monitoring equipment and pay for general operating expenses (like the website). Lise is amazing at keeping us all organized and tracking exactly what flows through the sorting system. We welcome new volunteers to …