"Committed to the restoration of wild Pacific salmon in mid Vancouver
Island watersheds through habitat restoration and community engagement"
Streamkeepers Certification Course in Parksville
Shelly Hall
April 12 and 13
Instructor: Dave Clough RPBio
Class and Field sessions
Fee $50.00
Register early with Faye at 250 752 9297
or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
If you missed the panel presentation on the Englishman River Status Report on November 19th, please take a moment to watch the presentations by Dave Clough and Gilles Wendling. Thanks to Beth Ross at BDigital Video Productions for putting this together. If you'd like to volunteer and help develop a framework of restoration and monitoring to maintain the health of this important watershed, please contact Faye Smith at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 250-752-9297.
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We had a great turn-out on November 19th and want to thank all that came out to the presentation and panel discussion with Dave Clough, Gilles Wendling and Mike Squire. The full Englishman River Status Report can be viewed here. The Backgrounder on the Health of the Watershed in 2013 can be found here, and summarizes the full report highlighting the most crucial information.
The challenge now is to develop a framework of monitoring and restoration that will maintain the health of the Englishman River watershed. To do this we need to engage our local community. There are several ways you can get involved:
Measure water flows in summer
Collect water quality samples
Operate downstream traps to enumerate salmon smolts
Fry salvage in pools on the river during summer flows
Take the Streamkeepers Certification Course and learn more
Take photos at key areas on the river and at special sites like the claybanks
Participate in a systematic review of all fish habitat structures installed since 2002
Participate in mapping and awareness
If you think you'd be able to help meet this objective, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call Faye Smith at 250-752-9297.
We appreciate the support of the following sponsors:
This project is made possible through funding from the Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia.
