Video link to CVRD Presentation re Watershed Health
This LINK will take you to the CVRD recording of their December 8, 2021 board meeting. Dave’s presentation begins at 2 minutes and finishes at 42 minutes.
Category: 2021
Study reveals potential issues with watershed health in Fanny Bay – Comox Valley Record
SCOTT STANFIELD / Dec. 9, 2021 11:30 a.m. / LOCAL NEWS / NEWS A retired forester presented the CVRD board with some key findings from a study concerning four watersheds in the Fanny Bay area. The Beaufort Watershed Stewards 2021 Hydrological Health Report Card reveals potential issues with watershed health, …
Watershed Health Report Card
The 2021 Beaufort Watershed Stewards (BWS) Hydrological Health Report Card presents initial data from watersheds on the east side of the Beaufort Mountain Range. Data were gathered in the summer of 2021 and included: equivalent clearcut area percentage, total area harvested, road density, number of stream crossings, total number of …
2021 Activity Summary
Looking for a quick overview of what BWS is all about? Well here is a diagram that illustrates all of the activities that we have taken on over the past year. Needless to say, we’ve been very busy! But it feels wonderful knowing what we have accomplished. We’d love to …
Our New Status
We are not status seekers. We’re humble citizen scientists. We go about our business with no need for fame or adulation. Swaggering, after all, doesn’t help when you’re clambering down a creek bank or slogging through a freshet in chest waders with rushing water up to your thighs. But last …
Tom Trainer’s Tales from the Woods: Part 2
When I left off last month, Mike and I had just arrived at Waterloo Creek. The day’s task was to first install a stream gage, to measure the creek’s water level, and then go up the creek a bit, to take flow readings across its width, to determine the amount of …
Tom Trainer’s Tales from the Woods: Part 1
I’m a city boy, raised in, and former resident of, a once-large city in the US rust belt. What I knew then about water was that if you turned a tap, it came out. Having aged out of the work world, and having arrived here in Fanny Bay, I had enough …
Every Stream is Different
Every stream is different. Two months ago, we stood in Wilfred Creek with the water rushing by up to our waists, threatening to topple anyone not paying attention. Six weeks later, we stood in the exact same spot with the water meandering slowly by at a comfortable calf-level. But while …
BWS Booth at Fanny Bay Summer Market
We were delighted to be part of a very successful 2020 Fanny Bay Summer Market. We had lots of folks drop by to find out about our work. Those of us setting up could not help but compare this year to our very first display for a Fanny Bay Community …
Geology can be Electrifying
Especially if you carry a car battery into the field, pound metal stakes into the ground and connect them to the battery posts with cables. Why would you do such a thing? In order to “see” below the surface of the earth. Around here we have lots of sand, gravel, …