Celebrating Canada’s Water Heroes

Our own Heather Leschied—scientist, campaigner, fly-fisher and advocate for a world in which humans and nature can both thrive–honoured as one of WWF Canada’s Water Heroes! ‪#‎CanadaWaterWeek‬

The Flathead River is a trans-boundary tributary of the Columbia River, located in southeastern British Columbia near the town of Fernie. The Flathead River Valley is the only unsettled, low elevation valley in southern Canada. With support from WWF and the Loblaw Water Fund, our Flathead River Biomonitoring Program uses watershed health as a framework for advocating for landscape conservation. The results of the program will support the Flathead Wild campaign goals of expanding the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park and establishing a Southern Rocky Mountain Wildlife Management Area in the Flathead Valley and will provide tools and fill a knowledge gap with respect to forestry impacts on freshwater and fisheries, so that our communities can advocate for the protection of this world-class ecosystem.

Visit the World Wildlife Federation Canada’s special Water Week website to meet Canada’s water heroes.

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