This business plan was developed to provide direction and guidance to Cowichan Watershed Board (CWB) members and staff in terms of identifying priorities, providing strategic direction over the short and long term, identifying the resources required to do the work and evaluating progress. It includes a five year strategic plan clearly identifying priorities, an annual […]
CWB Business Plan Update 2020
This annually updated plan is intended to provide direction and guidance to the Cowichan Watershed Board (CWB)’s members and staff, and to inform our partners. It identifies goals and milestones for the next five years, includes a budget forecast, and lays out the key areas of focus and specific activities of the work plan for […]
CWB 2018 Annual Report – Final
Welcome to our first ever Annual Report. 2018 marks the eighth year of the Cowichan Watershed Board (CWB) and in many ways it was a year ofmaturing as an organization. The CWB was formed in 2010 as a means to cope with a crisis in our communities where salmon could only reach their spawning grounds […]
CWB 2019 Annual Report – Final
The year 2019 marked a year of firsts that no one ever wanted to see: The Cowichan River became dependent upon “life support” for three weeks this summer, with electric pumps drawing down water in Cowichan Lake to keep the river flowing. Farmers in the Koksilah watershed were legally restricted from irrigating forage crops for […]
CWB Annual Report 2020 – Draft
“Watershed moments” are critical turning points that define the future; times when something new and irreversible is begun. Think of a raindrop rolling down to the ocean: Raindrops rarely go back upslope. Similarly watershed moments signify progress that can’t be undone. 2020 was the Cowichan Watershed Board’s tenth year and a very chaotic, challenging and […]