It has been a productive year at Glen Urquhart. There is lots more to do but we are already seeing the fruits of our labour.
Glen Urquhart Enhancement Successes and Challenges 2023/2024
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Going Forage Fishing, Winter 2023/2024
The weather is looking like fall and with the brief skiff of snow recently Project Watershed staff are beginning to look to the winter forage fish season.
Forage Fish Lecture in Tofino
Project Watershed’s Forage Fish team is coming to Tofino to share our research. Join us for a lecture on the importance of forage fish, their biology, ecology, and our west coast project plans to map this ecologically important habitat.
Glen Urquhart Fall Planting 2023
This fall we will be planting camas bulbs and Garry Oaks into our pilot Garry Oak meadow area, as well as harvesting willow stakes!
Kus-kus-sum Planting Fall 2023
We are getting thousands of plants delivered to the site this week and are looking for volunteers to help get them in the ground before winter.
Forage Fish Sampling- Fall 2023/Winter 2024
Come out and help look for beach babies!
Shifting Focus at Kus-kus-sum
The Kus-kus-sum project is not without its challenges. The biggest challenge at present is soil quality.
Kus-kus-sum Progression
The Kus-kus-sum project has been flourishing with significant strides in recent times, evoking a sense of hope and admiration among all those involved. The vision of revitalizing the once degraded site into a thriving habitat is now becoming a tangible reality.
June Eelgrass Restoration Completed
Between June 2 and 11, six dedicated staff members, approximately 23 volunteers and the UB Diving crew worked together to accomplish the impressive task of transplanting 6,000 stems of eelgrass!
Earthworks Continue at Kus-kus-sum
While the Kus-kus-sum site is already beginning to come into its own, there is still much work to be done. Just over one third of the area was recontoured and planted last year in 2022. Project Watershed aims to recontour and replant the remainder of the site this summer and fall, if funding allows. The key works you will see on site this year include recontouring and regrading, habitat complexing, and native species planting.
Kus-kus-sum Restoration Overview
The restoration will occur in 3 phases. Click below to read more about each phase and scroll down to see a visual representation of the site features found on the restored Kus-kus-sum site. During Phase...
Forage Fish Habitat Mapping
Project Watershed is conducting beach spawning forage fish surveys using visual egg searching methods, and new environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques. The egg search efforts have been conducted primarily with the help of dedicated community scientists who have been...