By reviving cultural practices and innovating restoration techniques, the Guardians are preventing rich soils from being eroded and washed away with the tides.
The KFN Guardians are preventing rich soils from being eroded
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Blue Carbon
Creating Habitat Connectivity
Comox Valley Project Watershed is focusing on the restoration of three marine habitats – kelp, eelgrass and saltmarsh – to facilitate connectivity between the subtidal, intertidal and foreshore zones in the estuary.
Restoring Kelp Forest Habitat
Comox Valley Project Watershed Society is working with partners to restore kelp forests using two methods: planting seeded kelp lines and reducing grazing pressure by sea urchins.
Kelp Forests
A kelp forest is a type of nearshore vegetative habitat, found along rocky coasts with wave action or strong currents in depths of 4 to 20 metres.
Blue Carbon Fact Sheet
Efforts in Blue Carbon, Sea Grass, Kelp, and Salt Marsh Restoration Blue Carbon and Estuaries in the Pacific Northwest.
Blue Carbon Pilot Project
Learn more about our groundbreaking international blue carbon initiative
Project Watershed’s Coastal Restoration Plan Now Available!
The plan identifies 70 potential nearshore habitat restoration projects along the east coast of Vancouver Island (between the Oyster River and Annie Creek near Qualicum Bay). Projects were identified by examining changes in the distribution of eelgrass, salt marsh and kelp habitat using historic and current aerial images and coupling this information with an extensive shore-zone assessment and literature review. The plan will guide future nearshore habitat restoration projects undertaken by Project Watershed and our partnering organizations.
Coastal Restoration Fund Update
After many long hours researching, mapping and writing Project Watershed's Coastal Restoration Team has produced the first draft of the Salish Sea North East Vancouver Island Salmon Highway (Nearshore Habitat) Coastal Restoration Plan. This foundational document will...
Kelp Restoration at Maude Reef
Here is a video of some of the kelp restoration work Project Watershed has been doing with Hornby Island Diving around Maude Reef off Hornby Island in British Columbia. You can see the lines we have seeded and how we have been excluding sea urchins to give the kelp a...
Coastal Restoration Project – Kelp Information
Project Watershed Receives Five-year Funding Contribution from Fisheries and Oceans Canada
[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color='' admin_preview_bg=''] Comox Valley Project Watershed is pleased to announce it received a five-year funding contribution from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). This funding contribution is part of over $75 million allocated...
Millard Creek
The information on this page complements that which appears on the sign that has recently been erected on Sandpiper Drive near Millard Creek.