Reports and books

Global case studies for the development of a comprehensive, place-based conservation strategy in the Lower Fraser.

Climate change and habitat loss are two intersecting issues facing communities and ecosystems in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.

Eight policy solutions to benefit wild salmon in an age of water scarcity.

The planned restoration of the Sea Gardens in W̱E¸NÁ¸NEĆ/Hwune’nuts (Fulford Harbour) on Salt Spring Island (British Columbia, Canada) by the W̱SÁNEĆ Nations and Hul’q’umi’num speaking Nations highlights the need for water quality analyses that identify contaminants of concern from adjacent watersheds.

This report is a synthesis of the expertise shared by the community of practice, who under the leadership of Transition Salt Spring, have assembled around the issue of fire risk in the Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) biogeoclimatic zone.

This report outlines a path ahead for more equitable, sustainable, and coordinated funding for Lower Fraser salmon. Report finds $91.6 million spent over 10 years for salmon habitat in the Lower Fraser River was inadequate and lacked coordination.

Bridging the gap between recognition and action in coastal ecosystems in southern British Columbia.

We assembled a team to assess water quality in the former Semá:th X̱ó:tsa (Sumas Lake) area of the Fraser Valley over a seven-week period after the floods. We collected water samples from 11 surface water sites and four groundwater sites for comprehensive contaminant analysis and a subsequent risk-based evaluation.

This report outlines a path ahead for more equitable, sustainable, and coordinated funding for Lower Fraser salmon. Report finds $91.6 million spent over 10 years for salmon habitat in the Lower Fraser River was inadequate and lacked coordination.

In 2017 researchers from the Martin Conservation Decisions Lab at the University of British Columbia and University of Victoria’s Baum Lab led a conservation decision-making exercise – Priority Threat Management (PTM).

As of 2018, more than one third of the unique populations of Fraser River salmon and steelhead are considered at risk of extinction. Additionally, there are more than 100 other species of conservation concern just within the Fraser estuary.

This is a crucial time for wild salmon that depend on the Fraser River. We identify systemic problems of governance and land use that have created this situation and offer six recommendations as next steps to put salmon and their habitat on a trajectory to ecological resilience.