Mount Polley Mine Disaster Raises Questions for Citizens of BC
It’s been over three months since the Mount Polley mine disaster. Distant summer memories of snapshots show mountains of toxic tailings debris coating the once pristine Hazeltine and Cariboo Creek beds. Images of a grey plume of necrosis, entering the […]
Job Posting: Lac La Biche Stewardship Coordinator
Purpose and General Description The Stewards of the Lac La Biche Watershed are an emerging community-based water stewardship group working in the Athabasca region of Alberta. Stewards of the Lac La Biche Watershed have a vision of an ecologically healthy […]
Living Lakes Canada Team Attends Living Waters Rally in Ottawa
OTTAWA, ON (October 6, 2014)— A delegation from Wildsight’s Living Lakes Canada team attended the Living Waters Rally held in Ottawa this week. The rally brought together 110 delegates representing recreational, indigenous, faith, philanthropic, environmental, business, academic and arts and […]
Report from the Field: Into the Wild Water of the Flathead
Waders on and bug sampling net in hand, I wander through the topaz blue, crystal clear water of the Flathead River. This river is a tributary of the Columbia River, flowing from its headwaters in southeastern British Columbia near the […]
Featured Project
Foreshore Inventory Mapping in the Columbia Basin
Foreshore Integrated Management Planning (FIMP — also known as Sensitive Habitat Inventory Mapping or SHIM) is a methodology developed in partnership with Fisheries and Ocean Canada in 2004. It maps shoreline habitats, assesses habitat value and establishes Shoreline Development Guidelines to […]
Projects
Living Lakes Canada delivers programs in 4 core areas: watershed awareness and education; citizen science and stewardship; watershed restoration; and innovative policy approaches for governance, management, and planning. We are a collaboration of community organizations working to build capacity for the effective protection of Canada’s freshwater resources, by bridging the gap between science and action to foster a culture of normalizing water stewardship through citizen science.
