It seems so long ago, but it’s only been six years since a few of us in Fanny Bay began wondering how climate change might affect our water supply. This idle pondering led to the formation of a watershed stewardship group. At first, we thought the Wilfred Creek Watershed Stewards …
The drought drags on and things continue to get drier and drier and drier. It’s the first week of August and it’s a welcome treat to visit our stream sampling sites. Shady little oases of resilience, they provide respite. The air feels moist, the bushes and vines have exploded in …
I’m always amazed that so few well owners know the level of the water in their wells. But then, I’m a data-driven sort of guy. If I were on a private well, I would probably have a sensor that sent real-time data to my phone. But that’s me. There is …
Ours is a hard-working bunch. At the same time, we like to have a good laugh. In that regard Pam Lengyel is probably the quintessential BWS board member. Pam works as hard as anyone and she is never lacking for comments, jokes or stories that make us laugh. A lot! …
I love maps. Maybe even more than I love graphs! I like to see everything at once, from above. I like to see how everything fits together. I like the clean lines between one feature and another rather than the messy vagueness of the real world. I like to measure …
The forecast called for sun but there was a drizzle of rain on the windshield as we drove the short distance to Mud Bay Creek. We hoped to do a transect – that is, measure the stream flow – before the Fanny Bay Salmonid Enhancement folks installed their smolt trap. …
Most of us have a box or two of old photos tucked away somewhere. We may dig through them now and then but mostly they just sit in their boxes. Or maybe we have the modern equivalent: a hard drive full of digital photos that are just as forgotten and …
The year is winding down. Daylight hours shrink as we slide towards the solstice. Before long we’ll begin again the slow ascent to brighter, warmer days. It’s a good time for reflection, for assessing the year past, and for planning the year to come. In many ways, 2022 was an …
What we think of as normal was at one time unusual. In a recent edition of the Waterbucket, Dr. Daniel Pauly, Global Fisheries Scientist at UBC is quoted: “We transform the world, but we don’t remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don’t recall what …
In 1912, Alfred Wegener proposed the idea of continental drift. The complementary shapes of western Africa and eastern South America were one bit of evidence. The chemical similarity of minerals on those two coasts was additional evidence. But no one could explain how continents could “drift,” so the idea was …
