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 …
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 …
Our largest monitoring program involves sampling for water quality in 20 creeks, for 31 weeks each year. We have three teams, or 'Pods" based in Bowser, Fanny Bay and Royston. The parameters that we measure include: air and water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, specific conductivity, and turbidity. On most creeks …
Monthly second site sampling for lower sections of selected streams: Cowie, Apple Cherry, Wilfred, Waterloo, Mud Bay.
Our monthly meetings are open to all members and people interested in learning more about the organization. We sometimes schedule Board-specific time for the meetings. After the business portion of the meeting is concluded, we have social time with refreshments that each person brings. While a remarkable amount of board …