SCRD ‘RIPARIAN AREA AND SHORELINE PROTECTION’ AMENDMENT PROPOSAL
July 7, 2024 Submit your comment of support before July 12th! We are asking for your support to protect salmon habitat and wildlife corridors! Sunshine Coast Streamkeepers Society would like to bring it to your attention that important decisions are being made regarding the protection of the riparian areas beside creeks and shorelines. Please read the…
SCSS Public Comment to BCTS on xwesam/Stelk’aya (Roberts Creek) Watershed
To BC Timber Sales: I am writing to express my opposition to the planned cutting of six cut blocks of forest in the xwesam (Roberts Creek) headwaters in 2025 and 2026. Re: Cut Block IDs: Cut blocks TA0520-Elph008 & TA0520 – G043B4NN, ELPH1028 and A94817-G043B4SG, A94817-G043C3ZP and TA1078 & Forestry Service Road IDs: (Note: building roads…
Submit Your Comment to BC Timber Sales Today!
This is a copy of email sent out to our Email List on Sunday, April 28, 2024 – please get your email submitted – do it today! #ProtectRCsalmon Hello everyone: We are sending a special email from SC Streamkeepers Society as it has come to our attention that 6 cut blocks are planned in the xwesam (Roberts…
WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THE ROBERTS CREEK WATERSHED CUT BLOCKS?
Submit Public Comments to BC Timber Sales (BCTS) We need your help to stop the 6 cut blocks planned in Roberts Creek watershed in 2025 and 2026! Time is of the essence as public comment period ended May 4, 2024 but comments are still accepted via email only. The main concern is these cut blocks…
Stop Cut Blocks in xwesam/Stelk’aya (Roberts Creek) Watershed – Public Comments accepted now – RESOURCES HERE!
Comments can be submitted directly through to email BCTS.SunshineCoast@gov.bc.ca. Public Comment Period is over. Forest Operations Map #1214 provides locations of road construction and forest harvesting operations currently planned and proposed by BCTS-Chinook Business Area within the Forest Development Units of the Sunshine Coast FSP #672. The shapes shown on this map are gross shapes…
BC Timber Sales proposed 6 cut blocks in Roberts Creek endanger wild salmon
Find the official BCTS 5-year operating map HERE It is important that people know about the BC Timber Sales (BCTS) proposed 6 cut blocks in Roberts Creeks watershed. As president of the SC Streamkeepers for the past 6 years, I have been on the ground walking Roberts Creek from the estuary to the falls every week…
The Gift of Salmon:
Since I became a Streamkeeper 4 years ago, the fall has become my absolute favourite time of year…..and the reason is the salmon returning to our creeks to continue the circle of life. This last Thursday I was down by Roberts Creek and could hardly keep an accurate count as there were SO many! I…
Spawning heroes!
As I stood under the bridge, I couldn’t stop watching these amazing creatures that have made the challenging long journey to their birthplace. As the females use the last of their energy to prepare their redds (nests), often wearing their tails down to a stub. The males take so much abuse from other competitors large…
Decades of cuts to salmon monitoring leave B.C. scientists uncertain of fish populations
The Narwhal: by Matt Simmons, February 18, 2021 For 40 years, Doug Stewart coordinated his movements with spawning salmon on B.C.’s north coast, climbing up creeks to count the fish as they returned from the ocean. His job as a creekwalker — a contract salmon monitoring gig for Fisheries and Oceans Canada — took him…