The Cowichan Watershed Board is pleased to resume its monthly Speaker Series in collaboration with VIU Cowichan Campus with an informative evening about Safeguarding Xpey’/Cedar. Central to local culture and ecosystems for millennia, this tree, called XPey’ by the Quw’utsun indigenous people, is under stress in our watershed. Learn why, and what Quw’utsun elders, tree […]
Video: Chinook Shimmy!
Cowichan Watershed Board’s new Stth’aqwi’ (chinook) salmon mascot can’t help but shimmy when she meets friends working to improve watershed health. And it seems we can’t resist either! It feels good to do good. Go Stth’aqwi’ go!
Video: Compilation Roving River Reporters 2021
This is a snapshot of some of the people our Roving River Reporter outreach crew met during the summer of 2021. See interviews with them all on this YouTube Channel, or search #BigDancingFish for social media.
Video: Biologist Cheri Ayers describes the Koksilah-Chemainus “Twinned Watersheds” Project
Cheri Ayers is a local fish biologist who grew up on the Koksilah River, and is now serving as the Fish Habitat and Flows Assessment Project Manager for the Twinned Watersheds project. She describes this important partnership effort to better understand climate and other impacts on fish habitats in the Koksilah and Chemainus Rivers so […]
Video: Interview with Elodie Roger about Riparian Zones
Elodie tells us about the ‘terrestrial’ or land part of riparian ecosystems that are also important for fish habitat, and her work with the Twinned Watersheds Project in the Koksilah and Chemainus Rivers, 2021.