Spawners are here!
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…