Working with the K’ómoks Nation towards Q’waq’wala7owkw on their unceded territory.
We are very excited to host our 2025 Keeping It Living Dinner at 40 KNOTS Winery on September 13th. We hope you can join us from 5 pm – 8 pm, as we enjoy food, wine and music from the Comox Valley while celebrating ecological restoration, research and education in our community.
Over the last eight years, Project Watershed has been developing and running our Keeping It Living Education Program to educate youth about their environment and connect them with its stewardship.
Have you wondered what happens at Project Watershed in the winter? Plants may go dormant at this time of year, but Pacific sand lance are busy spawning – and that means our four-person forage fish team and 32 community volunteers are also busy!
On February 22nd, we will be appreciating all those who volunteered with us in 2024 and orienting anyone who wants to volunteer in 2025 at our Symposium event at 2 pm. We encourage all current and prospective volunteers to attend!
On September 20 and 21, over 20 people were on site to help with planting at the Comox Valley Regional District’s (CVRD) Dyke Road Park redevelopment project.
To launch a new field-based environmental program, the Comox Valley Project Watershed Society has received a $5,000 donation from District 47 Vancouver Island of RTOERO.
Thank you to everyone who helped raise funds for ecological restoration, research and education through the Ken Kirkby Challenge this summer. Over $55,000 was raised through donations, a raffle and the Paintings, By The Numbers event.
Project Watershed and the Coastal Forage Fish Network (CFFN) are celebrating Surf Smet Day on October 25th! This adds another day on which to celebrate and raise awareness about beach spawning forage fish as Pacific sand lance are celebrated on a day in December.
We are looking for a few handy people to help install salmon signs that have been sponsored on the Kus-kus-sum fence.
You may have noticed that excavators were back at work on the Kus-kus sum site, continuing to transform the former sawmill site into a healthy estuarine ecosystem.
In 2018, Ken Kirby became involved with Project Watershed and the Kus-kus-sum Project and contributed right up to his death on June 20, 2023. While donating 50 of his most prized paintings prior to his passing, Ken expressed his deep appreciation for our partnerships...
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