Working with the K’ómoks Nation towards Q’waq’wala7owkw on their unceded territory.
Working with the K’ómoks Nation towards Q’waq’wala7owkw on their unceded territory.
By Philip Round - Echo Staff Pictured at the agreement signing alongside the Courtenay River Estuary on Tuesday are, from the right, Vancouver Island University President Ralph Nilson, the chair of Comox Valley Project Watershed Society Paul Horgen, B.C....
By Editorial - Comox Valley Record Published: April 17, 2013 4:00 PM; Updated: April 17, 2013 4:55 PM If you knew this editorial involved blue carbon or carbon sequestration, would you read on? Nonetheless, we ask that you keep reading. For the second time in four...
The following article was posted in The British Columbia Newsroom and The VIU News. Issued by the BC Ministry of Environment, April 9, 2013 COURTENAY – The B.C. government is partnering with Vancouver Island University and the Comox Valley Project Watershed Society to...
Project Watershed would like to thank our volunteers from Superstore, North Island College and around the Valley for their assistance with this important task and especially for doing it at 6:30 in the morning! Our intrepid group of volunteers showed up at 6:30 in the...
Paintbrush, common camas, and pretty shootingstar fill this part of the wetland meadow near the mouth of the Courtenay River. Photo by D. Ingram. A strong wind had kicked up, and it was spitting rain as I stepped out into the open flats of estuary, through a...
Comox Valley Echo Published: Friday, June 15, 2012 Concern is being voiced that the updated Courtenay River Estuary Management Plan might end up being left on a shelf rather than being used as a template for action. On Tuesday, Don Castleden and Wayne White were...
The Estuary Working Group was initiated as a sub-committee by Project Watershed following the “Heart of the Watershed” Symposium on Restoring the Courtenay River Estuary held in October, 2008. We are made up of 14 member organisations and individuals...
We are hosting two community drop-in sessions for elders who remember the estuary prior to 1950: On February 24th from 1-5 PM at the Comox Mall, and on On February 25th from 1-4:30 PM at the CVRD Board Room (550 Comox Road) We invite elders of the Comox...
On Saturday, January 21 around 11 PM to catch the lowest tide of the month, a team of Project Watershed volunteers and a group of Chemical and Biological engineering students from the University of British Columbia walked out onto the mud flats to obtain some samples...
Paul Horgen (left) of the Comox Valley Project Watershed Society receives a cheque for $1,500 from Creekside Commons Community Services Society (represented by left to right: Pam Munroe, Tim Crossin and Don Munroe) for the Eel Grass project to sequester carbon in the...
Students from UBC and volunteers from Project Watershed braved the dark mudflats of the Courtenay River estuary last night in order to gather sediment samples and eelgrass shoots for a UBC carbon sequestration research project. The low tide was at 10:30 pm, so...
Submitted by Celina on Wed, 2011-11-30 15:26 Keeping It Living is guided by the phrase “return of abundance,” which comes from the name “Comox” (“K’ómoks”), which means “land of plenty or abundance.” With a mission to bring about the return of abundance, the Keeping...