BC Freshwater Legacy Initiative, a project of Makeway, is providing tailored training, peer learning, and coaching support to Indigenous and non-Indigenous water leaders in communities that are leading on innovative approaches to watershed management, governance, and security. This project, which supports 10 jobs, will enable shared learning between organizations and regions and to advance the use of different knowledge systems in informing good watershed decision-making. (Photo: REFBC)

The Kwakiutl First Nation is addressing large-scale active erosion in the Cluxewe River by designing and implementing fish habitat restoration measures. These measures will help to stabilize the channel and restore salmon spawning rearing areas in the lower river and estuary. This project will create at least eight jobs and provide on-the-job training. (Photo: Kwakiutl First Nation)

Fraser Basin Council is restoring grasslands in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region to mitigate the impacts of forest encroachment on wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and livestock grazing. This project will support at least nine jobs. (Photo: Stephanie Butler / REFBC)

Fraser Basin Council is restoring fish habitat in the Nicola River by stabilizing sediment wedges impacted by flooding and building beaver dam analogues to moderate water flows and temperature. This project, which supports 11 jobs, complements the work underway by the Scw’exmx Tribal Council and Nicola Watershed Governance Project. (Photo: Stephanie Butler / REFBC)