Santa started her annual presentations by acknowledging that every one the BWS volunteers deserved a gift for giving of their valuable time and expertise to the group. Please know that it is sincerely appreciated. But Santa, as in previous years, chose a few gifts to celebrate and recognize an event …
One of the main BWS activities is gathering data. We’ve been gathering data for over seven years. We’ve got tons of it, piled up in boxes, tucked away on closet shelves, sealed in jars in the back of the fridge. I accidentally kicked a bucket of data over in the …
For those of us who live in the communities surrounding Bowser if you start a question with “I wonder who would know something about …?” You will most likely hear a common response: “Ask Brian at Lighthouse Feed & Garden, he has helped us out with that.… He knows who’s …
I spent the third week of September peering into people’s wells in Fanny Bay. This was part of our most recent collaboration with researchers from the University of Victoria’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences. In the past, we helped them look at rock layers beneath the surface. This time …
Monitoring Tire Wear Toxins in Local Streams It was a dark and stormy night … sounds like a gloomy, pull the covers over your head scenario for some except for the Beaufort Watershed Stewards (BWS) tire toxin sampling crew — it is a weather forecast that sounds a call to …
Last month I got an email from a neighbour telling me his old, unused well had dried up a month earlier than it did last year. I talked to another neighbour in Fanny Bay who said their well had gone dry for the first time in over thirty years. There …
The Beaufort Watershed Stewards (BWS) will once again be working with a student from the University of Victoria School of Earth & Ocean Sciences (SEOS) to learn more about one of the aquifers that provide all of our fresh water on the eastern slopes of the Beaufort Range. The student …
BWS is one of almost 30 environmental groups who form the Vancouver Island Private Managed Forest Action Alliance, lead by Jenn Holland. In this CBC video, released 17 July 2025, Claire Palmer interviews Dave Weaver and Jenn Holland to provide an introduction to the challenges inherent in the outdated Private …
The report on Cumulative Effects for the Trent River Watershed is out! Many thanks to Dave Weaver, Dave Daust RPF, and Scott Scholefield RPF for their work on this report! To access the full report, click HERE. The executive summary follows: Background: The Trent River Watershed Cumulative Effects (CE) Assessment …
One might think that, as watershed stewards, our stock in trade would be water. But really, there’s not much we can do about water. We can’t make more of it. That’s the job of nature. We can’t manage it. That’s the job of the community, the Regional District, the Province, …
