Water restrictions were implemented in August 2019 after water levels dipped to extremely low levels CBC News · Posted: Jan 20, 2020 9:30 PM PT | Last Updated: January 20 The province is setting up observation wells to monitor groundwater levels in the Koksilah watershed on Vancouver Island. The Koksilah river system, nestled in the […]
Cowichan Watershed Board member, Dr. Shannon Waters, discusses Drought Impacts on Human Health in a “ClimateReady” Discussion Video
Here is a short video of Cowichan Watershed Board member and Medical Health Officer, Dr. Shannon Waters, talking about the importance of our river, and the salmon it supports, to public health here in the Cowichan Valley. This is part 4 in a series of “ClimateReady” Discussion Videos by the Province of BChttps://engage.gov.bc.ca/climatereadybc/2019/12/13/discussion-4/”The Province is […]
Farmers worry about water availability in Cowichan Valley’s Koksilah watershed.
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 […]
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