Working with the K’ómoks Nation towards Q’waq’wala7owkw on their unceded territory.
by Paul Horgen - Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, Board Chair Project Watershed Quoting the great New York Yankee hall of fame catcher Yogi Berra, “Its deja vu all over again." In an announcement released on Wednesday, January 20th, Both NASA and NOAA...
With an election coming in a few days, all of the candidates running in Courtenay are firming up their platforms. One of the important issues facing our beautiful community and is on the minds of not only citizens of Courtenay, but all of us who have chosen the Comox...
A tidal marsh is a type of marsh that is found along the shoreline of coasts and estuaries of which the flooding characteristics are determined by the tidal movement of the adjacent estuary. The vegetation on the shore is called a salt marsh and it is a complex of...
Image Credit: Contributed - In the spring of 2012, residents along the Dyke Road were evacuated by the RCMP due to flooding. This was how things looked in front of the old cement tower. Contributed - Comox Valley Record; posted Oct 15, 2014 at 1:00 PM Today’s coastal...
[av_heading heading='Project Watershed, as part of their Blue Carbon efforts and habitat restoration activities, collected 2500 donor eelgrass shoots and then transplanted them into an area devoid of eelgrass off Port Augusta Park in the Town of Comox. These...
Something interesting is happening in our local waters. Project Watershed, a local environmental stewardship organization, is working on a project to learn more about how salt marsh and eelgrass beds in our local Estuary contribute to the uptake and storage of carbon...
[av_testimonials style='grid' columns='1'] [av_testimonial_single src='4286' attachment='' name='Russell Prentice' subtitle='Project Watershed Pacific Institute for Climate Studies Intern' link='http://' linktext=''] I have had a busy and exciting first month with...
By Mandy Larade - Comox Valley Record; posted Apr 9, 2014 at 4:00 PM A letter of federal recognition was given to the Comox Valley Project Watershed Society on the Blue Carbon Pilot Project from federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq. "Your organization's...
Every year Project Watershed bestows an array of Keeping It Living Awards to a deserving group and chosen artists. These awards are part of a campaign created to promote community knowledge of and pride in the K’omoks Estuary. One such award is the Keeping It Living...
Project Watershed has created a set of specialty Keeping It Living Art Cards just in time for the winter season. Now you can share the beauty inspired by the K’omoks Estuary with others.
Project Watershed and the Estuary Working Group have been developing restoration possibilities for the Field Sawmill site since 2009. “It is our belief that this property has the potential to become a highlight of a restored K'ómoks Estuary, itself a signature feature...
This video was produced and prepared through the Comox Valley National Historic Site Committee, as a descriptive information piece to go along with the submission to the National Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to respect, honor and give Historic Site recognition to the Ancient Wood Stake Fish Trap System studied by Community Archaeologist Nancy Greene and Geologist David McGee in the K’ómoks Estuary.