Working with the K’ómoks Nation towards Q’waq’wala7owkw on their unceded territory.
Looking back at 2013 I noticed we hadn't yet posted about our TEDX talk so as a recap here it is! On Thursday May 23, 2013 a local group, Imagine Comox Valley, organised and presented a TEDX event. A TEDX event is a local independently organised TED event where...
Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) is going ahead with the reconstruction of the Royston Waterfront Trail. More information and details on their plans can be found on the their website www.comoxvalleyrd.ca. Project Watershed and the Estuary Working Group are...
September 23-29 has been designated as National Estuary Week by the organization Restore Americas Estuaries so Project Watershed encourages you to get out and do something good for the estuary like picking up garbage or removing some invasive plants. There are a...
With the help of Biologist Lora Tryon and some keen volunteers Project Watershed restored eelgrass in the Royston area this summer (June 2013). Eelgrass restoration involves transplanting shoots from one healthy dense bed to an area that is void of eelgrass. Eelgrass...
Published: June 19, 2013 2:00 PM, Updated: June 19, 2013 2:07 PM 19 Wing is restoring marine habitat near Royston as compensation for the habitat affected by the maintenance dredging of the Goose Spit Marina that took place in January. The dredging was required to...
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...
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...
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...
Happy New Year to all. I look forward to a very successful 2012 and thank staff and Board members for their dedication and hard work. Although we continue to struggle with finding appropriate sources of financing, we have had some recent successes with a number of...