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Ducks Unlimited: Healing Estuaries in the Alaksen National Wildlife Area

Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) works with partners to restore the area to its original ecosystem.
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Fernie's Floating Wetlands Address Community Stormwater Pollution

Heavy rains, widespread flooding, and devastating landslides have scarred parts of southern British Columbia in recent months. Under climate change, these extreme weather patterns are expected to ...
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What are ‘Fish-Friendly Flows’?

One of the Healthy Watersheds Initiative’s funding priority areas is Fish Friendly Flows, supporting seven projects totalling $1,337,000 in grants. ...
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Bracing for "Unknown Unknowns"

With the end of a ravaging summer, coastal communities continue preparing themselves for a future of more droughts, floods, and ...
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Show Me the Numbers

Inside Living Lakes Canada's Water Data Hub Our climate is changing, and watersheds are seeing the impacts: flooding, droughts, higher ...
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Lara Volgyesi leads a site visit ahead of foodland corridor restoration work along the sc̓e:ɬxʷəy̓əm (Salmon River), a tributary of the stal̕əw (Fraser River). (Photo: Nerv Productions)

Connecting Land and Water: Foodland Corridors

What happens on the land ends up in the water. In the Fraser Valley, common agricultural practices like using fertilizers ...
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Wetlands Workforce crew members, Aila and Warren, are helping to install 35 poles, cameras and audio recorders for the Wildife Monitoring Program at the Yaqan Nukiy Site (Photo: Cheyenne Bergenhenegouwen)

Spotlight: Yaqan Nukiy Project

This story was originally published on the Wetlands Workforce blog, on 12 May 2021. Wetlands Workforce Provides a Helping Hand ...
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To learn more about the health of a wetland, the LEPS Wetland Crew collects water samples to test for environmental DNA (“eDNA”) to check the number and type of species (bugs) present in the water. (Photo: Langley Environmental Partners Society)

In the Field with the LEPS Wetlands Crew

Shovels, hip waders, and sunscreen. Those are some of the tools of the trade for Laura Stepney, Elyse Dyck, and ...
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