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Claire Palmer interviews Dave Weaver and Jenn Holland to provide an introduction to the challenges inherent in the outdated Private …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 …
Once again BWS will be at the Fanny Bay Summer Market! This is a key community event each summer with vendors and non-profit organizations in full attendance. Come learn about BWS and all the other wonderful groups in our community!
Monthly second site sampling for lower sections of selected streams: Cowie, Apple Cherry, Wilfred, Waterloo, Mud Bay.
BWS has sensors installed in several local creeks to record the water level over time. However, water level alone doesn’t tell us much. Several times a year we perform a transect in each of these creeks. A transect involves measuring the velocity of water at twenty different points in the stream. These velocity measurements, …
BWS has sensors installed in several local creeks to record the water level over time. However, water level alone doesn’t tell us much. Several times a year we perform a transect in each of these creeks. A transect involves measuring the velocity of water at twenty different points in the …
BWS has sensors installed in several local creeks to record the water level over time. However, water level alone doesn’t tell us much. Several times a year we perform a transect in each of these creeks. A transect involves measuring the velocity of water at twenty different points in the …
There’s something that’s been bugging us. We know quite a bit about our streams. We regularly measure their temperature, turbidity, specific conductance, pH, and oxygen content. When we’re sampling, we take note of frogs or salamanders that cross our path and birds that depend on the creeks for food (a …
Rubber boots, a signature yellow vest, two cases of gadgets and a common desire to understand the dynamics of our local freshwater resources links these six volunteers of the Bowser Pod, members of the Beaufort Watershed Stewards (BWS). Doesn’t everyone love a celebration? As of April, this team marked their …
