Our field team navigating to shore on their way to a camera service.

What forests mean to coastal wildlife

We know that old-growth forests provide many important services to coastal species, but when these environments are changed, how does the age, diversity, and structure of these forests influence wildlife communities?  Over the past 14 months, a network of wildlife cameras in Heiltsuk Territory has been collecting images of coastal species so that managers and…

A field scientists walk in the central coast rainforest watching and counting salmon

Creekwalking in Heiltsuk Territory

This past fall, Raincoast’s Wild Salmon team and technicians from the Reynolds Lab at Simon Fraser University conducted fieldwork for a long-term chum and pink salmon spawner monitoring project in Heiltsuk Territory. Started in 2007, the project monitors spawning populations in 27 small streams throughout the territory, and the data is used to inform fisheries…