John Vanden Dungen is worried about the future of his farm. Vanden Dungen is the owner of the 380-acre Meadow Green Farms on Koksilah Road, a dairy farm with more than 300 cows that his father began decades ago. It’s one of seven dairy farms in that area, and one of the approximately 30 dairy […]
Hybrid salmon discovered by scientists on Vancouver Island
Fish found in Cowichan River have genes of both coho and chinook salmon CBC News Oct 12, 2019 Two salmon researchers say a surprising discovery has been made on Vancouver Island. Andres Araujo, a biologist at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and Will Duguid, a PhD biology student at the University of Victoria, recently […]
The Cowichan River: loving and logging it to death. By Stephen Hume.
[By Stephen Hume, May 7, 2020, Focus on Victoria] A NEAR-SILENT CURRENT SLIPS THROUGH WILLOW RUN. The jade-green swirl of eddies and back-eddies causes darker reflections of trees to ripple in the August glare. Here and there, the slick surface boils over a hidden boulder, or abruptly sucks down with a wet slurp into some […]
‘Heroic intervention’ saves Cowichan River, but future shaky
Richard Watts / Times Colonist September 1 2019 The Cowichan River, with its resident fish and float-tube-loving humans, would be dead without the heroic intervention now underway, says a regional politician. On Thursday, massive pumps operated by Catalyst Crofton pulp and paper mill were turned on to pump water from Cowichan Lake directly into the […]
Government sends letter urging conservation to users in Koksilah watershed
Water sustainability plan may be required.Credit: Cowichan Valley Citizen, Robert Barron, June 14, 2019While many in the Valley are focused on low water levels in Cowichan Lake and Cowichan River, the situation for residents who depend on water from the Koksilah watershed could be even worse.Residents with wells and water licences in that watershed area […]
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