Chek TV Interviews with Tom Rutherford, Cowichan Watershed Board Strategic Priorities Director, and BC Minister Randene Neill, Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, regarding drought and water scarcity impacts on the health of our waterways. Jeff Lawrence, July 14, 2025 Watch: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/AD9ACyjp
Cowichan River gets needed federal boost. By Stephen Hume
[By Stephen Hume, November 27, 2020. Focus on Victoria] A reprieve for the Cowichan River offers a rare good news story.PERHAPS IT’S A GOOD MOMENT to let our attention drift from the pandemic-propelled collapse of the Trumpian snake-oil-sales dystopia to the south and the daily litany of coronavirus woes across Canada to some good news that […]
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 […]