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Our Salish Sea Emerging Stewards Program had a busy year with youth trips and new partnerships.
The breaches we created in the North Arm and Steveston Jetties have seen immediate success, which is rare for a habitat restoration project.
Our Wild Salmon Program works to ensure self-sustaining populations of wild salmon returning to wild rivers.
What our Forest Conservation Program accomplished in 2023.
Where will the conservation scientists, managers, and informed advocates of tomorrow come from?
Minimally invasive research techniques to study wolves.
Connectivity is vitally important at all sorts of scales over time and space.
We have created a new map to show the success we’ve observed at our habitat restoration sites.
Chavon Robertshaw has joined our Lower Fraser Salmon Conservation and Wolf Conservation Programs as a Conservation Science Technician. Utilizing the education and hands-on training she gained through a diploma program at BCIT, she will be contributing to research efforts and data collection such as surveying Pacific salmon, collecting genetic samples for both salmon and wolf…
Our new map shows water quality sampling sites and the re-emergence of Sumas Lake after the 2021 floods.
Ecological communities around the Salish Sea range from iconic conifer-dominated forests to grasslands. None of these diverse communities recognize political boundaries, so how do habitats on the American side of the border compare to those in southern BC?
Sam has joined our Healthy Waters Program team as a Water Quality Coordinator. She assists Dr. Peter Ross in the implementation of community-based research into water quality in various watersheds around southern British Columbia. Sam received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Simon Fraser University. While studying at SFU she had the opportunity…