Many restoration projects have been implemented in the Skeena River watershed over the past decades, but a comprehensive overview of these efforts is lacking. This knowledge gap in salmon ecosystem restoration hinders effective decision-making for future initiatives. To address this, the Skeena Knowledge Trust, with funding from Fisheries and Oceans Canada (FOC) Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration…
The LakeKeepers Workshop was presented by the BC Lakes Stewardship Society (BCLSS) – a non-profit organization with a focus on lake monitoring and education in BC. Norm Zirnhelt came up north to lead the workshop, following a similar workshop held at Lakelse Lake near Terrace in partnership with SkeenaWild Conservation Trust, Kitselas Five Tier System and the Lakelse Watershed Stewards Society.
Since our inception in 2017, the Skeena Knowledge Trust has been working to address key information and knowledge gaps relevant to salmon ecosystems with the goal of supporting healthy watersheds and salmon populations through more sustainable land use decisions in the Skeena River Watershed. But what does that actually look like? Our first step was…
If a picture says a thousand words, a map is a thousand pictures. And if the map is interactive – allowing you to zoom in and out, pan to different regions, and click on features to learn more about them – surely it would be over a million!
One comment the Skeena Knowledge Trust gets a lot is that the size and scope of the Skeena Salmon Data Centre can be overwhelming. The Skeena Salmon Data Centre (SSDC) is a comprehensive, central repository and data hub for credible information related to wild Pacific salmonids in the Skeena watershed, including data on salmon populations,…
For over three years, the Skeena Knowledge Trust has been hosting the water temperature monitoring data collected through Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Smithers’s Upper Bulkley Sockeye and Chinook Restoration Feasibility Study on the Skeena Salmon Data Centre. Funding support for the project was provided by DFO, the Pacific Salmon Commission, and the BC Ministry…
Every year adult Skeena salmon make the incredible journey of hundreds of kilometers to return to the streams where they were born after a year or more in the Pacific Ocean. As climate change adds additional challenges to salmon survival, it is more important than ever to know how many salmon are making it back…
