“We spent the weekend outdoors camping on the peninsula and notices shoreline grasses has dried and shriveled.”
As engineers and government officials try to locate the source of a sewage leak into the Capilano River, the Squamish Nation and a group of volunteers who monitor waterways on the North Shore say they are worried about the effect on young salmon in the river.
This happened about 250 m from the shore of the Fraser River in a creek at Colony Farms.
Extreme rain swamped rivers and farmland across southern B.C. and triggered mudslides that blocked every major highway connecting the Lower Mainland to the rest of the country in November 2021. This is a timeline of the first week of the crisis.
It happened Thursday night and into Friday morning, when the Crown corporation reduced the spill release from the Daisy Lake Reservoir into the river, stranding fish who had moved closer to the banks.
In 2009, the numbers dropped down to just 500 pairs of Chinook returning. Yet, as of Tuesday, more than 8,000 Chinook had returned to their Cowichan River spawning grounds. The improvement is the result of years of conservation efforts by Cowichan Tribes, who have worked to restore the river to its course before logging operations changed the river.
Don’t treat the river like a personal bathtub. It’s a message Squamish conservationists are putting forward after they found man-made dams blocking pink salmon from their spawning grounds.
Visitors advised not to swim in lake and keep dogs on leash
Drought levels have been raised already for parts of the province and Dave Campbell, with the B.C. River Forecast Centre, says the current forecast points to drought conditions provincewide in the coming weeks.
The carcass of a nearly four-metre-long bluntnose sixgill shark was found on Coles Bay Tuesday.
A pregnant bluntnose sixgill shark found on the banks of Coles Bay may have come in to shallow water to give birth and died from complications.
Swimmers have reported feeling nausea, itchy skin and irritated eyes after vising the popular lake.
Many communities have gone weeks without rain this month
The Koksilah River is in trouble, with low flows threatening fish populations.
Scientists are unsure if warming temperatures are causing the bizarre invertebrates to spread.
On a field trip with Northwest Indian College Geology class to Chuckanut Drive saw water with apparent difference in color.
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