Simms Millennium Park is a municipally-owned 9.0 acre park located off the Old Island Highway directly across from Lewis Park and is naturally bounded by the Courtenay River to the south and Courtenay River Slough to the East and North.
Volunteers Needed to Help Plant at Simms Park Following Habitat Construction
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Upcoming Construction at Simms Millennium Park to Improve Salmon Habitat
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Ancient Fish Traps
A large scale, technologically sophisticated intertidal fishery in Courtenay, British Columbia.
Improving Salmon Survival in Simms; A Plan for Habitat Restoration
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Groundbreaking Archeology Celebrated!
Nancy Greene and David McGee, local archeologists and Comox Valley residents, are going to be speaking at the upcoming K'ómoks Estuary Seafood Dinner. Their groundbreaking research The Comox Harbour Fish Trap Complex: A Large-Scale, Technologically Sophisticated...
Project Watershed has big footprint at Regional Conference
The Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference April 13-15, in Vancouver is the largest most comprehensive event of its kind in the region. The purpose of the conference is to assemble scientists, First Nations and tribal government representatives, resource managers,...
Stephen Hume: Archeology student publishes paper on ancient, industrial-scale First Nations fishery
England’s monarchs were sacrificing to Woden and persecuting Christian missionaries when First Nations managed a vast, highly-productive, industrial-scale fish harvesting complex in the estuary of the Courtenay River.
Compensation Program Board Members Tour Airpark
The Comox Valley Project Watershed Society (CVPWS) hosted a tour of the Courtenay Airpark Lagoon Dike Breach for the Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program (FWCP) Coastal Region board members. The FWCP funded $106,550 to CVPWS to complete the project which aligns...
The Airpark Lagoon has been Breached
If you have been down to the Airpark lately you may have noticed the pathway has been closed over the past 2 weeks so that a team of hardworking engineers, machine operators, project managers and laborers could install a culvert under the Airpark Walkway. This work...
Courtenay Airpark Lagoon Breach Project Underway!
After four years of study and planning the project to breach the Courtenay Airpark Lagoon and reconnect it with the Courtenay River is now underway. The breach will be in the form of a culvert which will direct river flows through the lagoon area. This will flush and...
Airpark Lagoon Breach Project
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