Fraser Basin Council invites you to a Stewardship Legacy Workshop in Langley on Thursday, February 14th, 2013! Workshop Objectives: • Facilitate learning via peer knowledge exchange, presentations from various experts, and field tours covering current water management and watershed stewardship topics; • Keep a regional network of watershed stewards and practitioners engaged with each other; […]

Congratulations to the Coquitlam River Watershed Roundtable’s new Education Seat representative, Marvin Rosenau, on winning the 2012 Haig-Brown Conservation Award! TOTEM FLYFISHERS P.O. BOX 4593, MAIN POST OFFICE, VANCOUVER, B. C. V6B 4A1 Media Release (PDF version) December 12, 2012 BCIT Instructor, Fish Conservationist Marvin Rosenau awarded 2012 Haig-Brown Conservation Award Burnaby, BC—The Totem Flyfishers […]

COQUITLAM, BC, December 4, 2012 – City of Coquitlam has begun water quality monitoring of the Coquitlam River to help build a reliable and current database of water quality information. The resultant data will be a huge tool to inform the community about the watershed’s health in its urban environment. “The City has looked at the monitoring and […]

The sight of a dozen big, fat chum salmon nosing their way up Scott Creek in Coquitlam doesn’t seem to surprise three-year-old Charlie Englund. After all the creek, a meandering tributary of theCoquitlam River, has been his back yard since he was a baby and the fall ritual is as normal as Halloween and falling […]

In an announcement made during October 2012, the Roundtable and Watershed Watch Salmon Society learned that they were the lucky recipients of a $1,800 grant.  The funds will be used to host a series of Watershed Cafés.  Similar to Philosopher Cafés in which the focus is on learning and dialogue, the Watershed Cafés will cover […]

Garry Elgear, owner of Riverside Fishing and Tackle and CRW Roundtable Core Committee member, hosted another successful Coquitlam River Clean for 2012! Tons of draw prizes lured folks to come out and help with the Clean up will be given out! Both cities helped support the event with supplies and garbage pick up.

Representatives of the CRW Roundtable were on hand to talk about the Roundtable at the September 15, 2012 Tree Fest, which was hosted by the City of Coquitlam. Thanks to Gord Lewis and Krista Englund for attending and sharing about the Roundtable!

The Watershed Watch Salmon Society has just launched a new web-based mapping tool which allows users to explore the water and salmon of the Fraser River watershed using a cutting-edge data visualization platform.  More info:  http://www.watershed-watch.org/

An extensive feedback opportunity to developing a Riverview Lands’ draft Heritage Conservation Plan (HCP) and conservation strategies was completed this fall. This plan developed to reflect and consider the values that stakeholders and the public hold for the Lands. Values were shared through workshops, questionnaires, interviews and online and written submissions. The draft plan is […]