Links

Useful links:

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Volunteers checking water quality

City of Port Moody

Mossom Creek Hatchery

Hyde Creek Watershed Society

Burke Mountain Naturalists

Rivershed Society of BC

Pacific Streamkeepers Federation

Burns Bog

Adams River Salmon Society

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Volunteer Connections

Links to Educational Institutions

Networking BC’s Rivers Networking BC Rivers is a project to enable schools and communities throughout BC to learn more about the watersheds of four major rivers in British Columbia: the Fraser, Peace, Skeena, and Columbia. 

Center for Conservation Biology Network  Their mission is to help develop the technical means for the protection, maintenance, and restoration of life on this planet – its species, its ecological and evolutionary processes, and its particular and total environment; to help raise awareness, educate, and encourage personal involvement of the public and academics alike. 

Links to Government Agencies

D F O Home Page The departmental Mission is to manage Canada’s oceans and major waterways so that they are clean, safe, productive and accessible, to ensure sustainable use of fisheries resources, and to facilitate marine trade and commerce.

Habitat Enhancement Branch Streams provide habitat for many fish species, riparian areas are home to birds and small mammals. Recreation opportunities in urban settings are greatly valued. However, man’s intervention has had a negative impact on these delicate ecosystems. A Streamkeeper is an individual, or a group of individuals, who want to recover and restore those ecosystems.

An Introduction to Water Quality Monitoring  This page addresses methods and tools to monitor, assess, and report on the health of America’s water resources, and software and automated information systems to manage monitoring data. 

BC Oil Spill Marine Workforce The BC Oil Spill Workforce is comprised of trained workers capable of assisting government and industry in the response to and clean-up of oil spills that may occur along the coast of the Province of British Columbia, Canada. These people are generally from coastal communities.

Driftwood A Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks program designed to promote wildlife viewing opportunities within British Columbia. Specific site information, festivals and events, quarterly newsletter, brochures, checklists and web links!

Links to Volunteer Organizations and Groups

Global Rivers Environmental Education Network GREEN is an innovative, action-oriented approach to education, based on an interdisciplinary watershed education model. GREEN’s mission is to improve education through a global network that promotes watershed sustainability. It is a resource to schools and communities that wish to study their watershed and work to improve their quality of life.

Mossom Creek Salmon Hatchery  Since 1976, The Mossom Creek Salmon Enhancement Project has been running with the help of Centennial School science teachers, Rod MacVicar and Ruth Foster.

The Virtual Birder “Our goal is to regularly bring compelling content to birders via the Web. This content should inform, educate, and entertain birders with a variety of experience, from someone just getting into birding to someone who has birded their entire life.” 

BC Wildlife Federation The B.C. Wildlife Federation was incorporated under the B.C. Societies Act in 1951 and it became a registered charity in 1969. The Federation is British Columbia’s largest and oldest conservation organization.

BC Environmental Network  The BC Environmental Network (BCEN) is a network of community-based British Columbia environmental organizations.  Organizations within the Network advocate for environmental responsibility and community participation in activities leading to ecological sustainability

World Wildlife Fund Canada World Wildlife Fund is dedicated to saving life on Earth, through the conservation of nature and ecological processes. Conserving biological diversity is essential for ensuring a liveable future for humans and all species.

Links to Research Organizations

Institute for Fisheries Research The Institute for Fisheries Resources is a not for profit organization dedicated to the study, protection and enhancement of both marine and anadromous biological resources on the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada. The Institute is independent of but affiliated with the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA) — the largest organization of commercial fishermen on the west coast. PCFFA has long been involved in resource conservation and protection issues, and the Institute for Fisheries Resources is expanding and carrying on PCFFA’s 24-year conservation

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