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Expanding Plant Coverage
Little Qualicum River Estuary Regional Conservation Area (LQRECA) – our latest work party took place on Thursday, October 9 when nine volunteers and our Cultural Monitor, Kris from the Qualicum First Nation, worked together to plant 55 more native plants on the spit. The plants consisted of 10 large Shore Pine, 5 Garry Oak, 10…
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Forests and Rivers
BC NATIONAL FOREST WEEK AND WORLD RIVERS DAY QBS will have a display at two upcoming events this weekend …. at a Forest Week event at the Qualicum Beach Museum from 1 to 4 on Saturday, September 27… and at World Rivers Day in the Parksville Community Park from 11 to 3 on Sunday, September…
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Successful Rescue!
A 15 person volunteer team assisted fisheries biologist Dave Clough to remove wild fish from a Memorial Golf Club sediment collection pond on Beach Creek on August 25. The team used a seining net to find over 130 coho salmon smolt and fry, a solitary cutthroat trout and a handful of sculpin and crayfish. All…
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Rescuing Salmon
On Monday, August 25, Qualicum Beach Streamkeepers (QBS) have been requested to provide our volunteer services to assist the Town of Qualicum Beach and Dave Clough’s fisheries biologist team to remove fish from the ponds on the Memorial Golf Club. Every few years, the irrigation ponds on the golf course fill with sediment and need…
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Celebrating 30 Years!
The Qualicum Beach Streamkeepers Society has been recognized by the Town of Qualicum Beach for thirty years of contributing to the protection and improvement of wild fish habitat in and around the community. Mayor Teunis Westbroek spoke at the 12th annual Beach Day in Qualicum Beach event, where many of the Society’s supporters and volunteers…
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Beach Day July 27
We are celebrating our 30th Anniversary this year, and to commemorate our history, we have invited Mayor Westbroek to recognize several volunteers at this event. In addition we will have an expanded presence, with our very popular “ocean warming” demonstration and the new full size maps of our local creeks. Volunteers would be welcome to…