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 Town of Gibsons is evaluating the conditions and potential risks to natural assets within the Gibsons Aquifer Watershed. By ensuring that natural assets are understood, measured, and managed, this project will support asset management strategies and climate change responses. This project will support nine jobs. (Photo: Unsplash)

Discovery Coast Greenways Land Trust is collaborating with the Wei Wai Kum Coastal Guardian Watchmen program, 7 Generations Stewards Society, and AIDS Vancouver Island to restore and protect riparian areas around Campbell River that have been impacted by increased human use during the pandemic. This project supports up to 28 jobs.  (Photo: Discovery Coast Greenways Land Trust)

Lower Kootenay Band is restoring naturally appearing and functioning wetlands and floodplains by filling ditches, removing reed canary grass, and recontouring altered wetland basins along the Kootenay River. This project, which supports 11 jobs, uses innovative techniques that will reduce the need to maintain and artificially fill the wetlands. (Photo: Cheyenne Bergenhenegouwen / BCWF)