Community Advisor - West Vancouver and Howe Sound

"My area is very diverse, ranging from the rural D'Arcy-Pemberton Valley area to the very urban Whistler and West Vancouver communities, the island community of Bowen Island, and the "Recreation Capital of Canada", Squamish. In addition to the core public involvement programs (enhancement, stream protection, habitat advocacy, education), all the ecologically-based groups participate in the Streamkeepers Program, as well as local water and land-use planning issues, habitat restoration, mapping, salmonid assessments, community awareness, youth education and activities, fund-raising, oceans stewardship activities and habitat protection.

We now have an Oceans Stewardship Shoreline Preservation Society and a new Wetlandkeepers group in West Vancouver. The Squamish stewards have engaged in herring, eel-grass and related habitat restoration. We have three active First Nations communities at Mt. Currie, Squamish First Nations, & N'Qua'qua, and a progressive Squamish – Lillooet Sportfishing Advisory Group. We enjoy excellent cooperation from Tenderfoot and Capilano Hatcheries, and much help from our Lower Fraser SEP restoration team, biologist Matt Foy and engineer Harold Beardmore. Our volunteer groups greatly appreciate the work, assistance, support and cooperation from DFO Conservation and Protection, and our provincial colleagues at the Ministry of Environment including field biologist Rob Knight, bear specialist Steve Rochetta, and the conservation officers. We also work regularly with private contracting education services, in organizing oceans, estuary, wetland, watershed and streamkeeper educational field trips for students & adults."

– Rob Bell-Irving, CA

Main Enhancement Facilities

Capilano Salmon Hatchery

Initiated 1971

4500 Capilano Park Road, North Vancouver V7R 4L3

Tel: 604-666-1790

Tenderfoot Hatchery

Initiated 1981

Box 477, Brackendale V0N 1H0

Tel: 604-898-3657 Fax: 604-898-5692

Community Involvement Groups

Brackendale Art Gallery – Eagle Watch

Thor Froslev

PO Box 100, 41950 Government Road, Brackendale V0N 1H0

604-898-3333

BrackendaleArtGallery (at) shaw.ca

Bowen Island Fish and Wildlife Club

Mike Von Zuben

RR#1 - AL 36, Bowen Island V0N 1G0

604-947-0630

manana1 (at) shaw.ca

Number of Members/Students - 20

Initiated 1984. Fish ladders, hatchery, habitat improvement, public awareness. Land and watershed management planning, water-use planning, oceans foreshore, restoration in Terminal, Davies Creeks.

Britannia Beach Streamkeepers

Pam Tattersfield

604-896-2434

tattersfield (at) telus.net

Number of Members/Students - 6

Watershed planning, mining and contaminated site reclamation, habitat restoration, oceans stewardship, enhancement.

District of Squamish, Environment

Peter Woods, Environmental Coordinator

pwoods (at) squamish.ca

District of West Vancouver, Environment

Steve Jenkins

750 17th Street, West Vancouver V7V 3T3

sjenkins (at) westvancouver.net

Furry Creek Streamkeepers

Dave Rittberg

604-896-2212

rittberg (at) telus.net

Number of Members/Students - 20

Initiated 2001. Habitat restoration, watershed planning, assessment, education.

Mt. Currie First Nations

Lucinda Phillips & Maxine Bruce

604-894-6145

maxine.bruce (at) lilwat.ca / lucinda.phillips (at) lilwat.ca

Number of Members/Students - 30

Watershed planning, habitat restoration, salmon inventories and education.

Northshore Wetland Partners

Paul Berlinguette

604-929-2756

fiona_wright (at) telus.net

Number of Members/Students - 20

Wetlandkeeping and planning, water and land management.

North Vancouver Outdoor School

Victor Elderton

PO Box 250, Brackendale V0N 1H0

604-898-5422

www.nvos.ca

Number of Members/Students - School staff

Initiated 1981. Hatchery, education, spawning channel, watershed and water-use planning on Cheakamus River.

N'Quatqua First Nations – D'Arcy/Anderson Lake

Rebecca Barley

604-452-3221

Number of Members/Students - 15

Watershed planning, education, enhancement and habitat restoration.

Pemberton – Lillooet Agricultural Stewardship Society

Veronica Woodruff

604-894-0008

veronicarobin (at) yahoo.ca

Number of Members/Students - 10

Agricultural stewardship

Pemberton Sportsmen's Wildlife Association

Hugh Naylor

PO Box 221, Pemberton V0N 2L0

604-894-6402 (Hugh)

hjnaylor (at) telus.net

Number of Members/Students - 10

Initiated 1985. Hatchery, habitat improvement, youth education, assessment, watershed planning on Birkenhead, Upper Lillooet rivers.

Sewell's Landing Marina

Eric & Megan Sewell

6695 Nelson Avenue, West Vancouver V7W 2B2

604-921-3474

megan (at) sewellsmarina.com / eric (at) sewellsmarina.com

Initiated 1984. Ocean stewardship activities on Horseshoe Bay and Howe Sound.

Squamish Environmental Conservation Society

Meg Fellowes

PO Box 2676, Squamish V8B 0B8

604-898-5093

megf (at) shaw.ca / conservation (at) squamishecology.org

Squamish First Nations

Randall Lewis

PO Box 86131, North Vancouver V7L 4J5

rlewis (at) squamish.net

Squamish River Watershed Society

Edith Tobe

PO Box 1791, Garibaldi Heights V0N 3G0

604-898-9171

tobe (at) shaw.ca

Number of Members/Students - 20

Initiated 1998. Coordination, training, habitat and biological inventory, assessment, monitoring, habitat restoration and public awareness; watershed and water-use planning, ocean stewardship on Squamish River.

Squamish Sea to Sky Corridor Streamkeepers

Jack Cooley / Dr. Jonn Matsen

604-898-5196

j-cooley (at) shaw.ca / drjonnmatsen (at) shaw.ca

Number of Members/Students - 25

Initiated 2000. Streamkeepers, spawner assessments, habitat restoration, watershed planning, ocean shorekeepers, activities and enhancement in Squamish.

Stewardship Pemberton Society

Veronica Woodruff

604-894-0008

veronicarobin (at) yahoo.com

Upper Birkenhead Watershed Stewardship Group

Rhonda Johnson

604-590-5470

johnsonrhonda (at) shaw.ca

Number of Members/Students - 20

Watershed planning, habitat restoration, education and monitoring.

West Vancouver Shoreline Preservation Society

Ray Richards

PO Box 91166, West Vancouver V7V 3N6

604-926-6354

rrichards6332 (at) shaw.ca

http://westvanshoreline.ca/  

West Vancouver Streamkeepers

John Barker

PO Box 91166, West Vancouver V7V 3N6

604-922-5780

jrbarker (at) shaw.ca

www.westvancouverstreamkeepers.ca

Number of Members - 103; Students and Volunteers - 25

Habit assessment and restoration, hatchery operation, water-use, land and watershed planning, spawner assessments, student outreach and education involving West Vancouver streams.

Whistler Fisheries Stewardship

Heather Beresford

4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler V0N 1B4

604-935-8323

hberesford (at) whistler.ca

Number of Members/Students - 30

Watershed planning, habitat restoration, education and assessment.

Education Activity

West Vancouver School District

9 School Incubators

2 Instruction Workshops

1 Dissection Workshops

270  Students

 

Squamish School District

5 School Incubators

150 Students

 

Pemberton/Whistler School District

8 School Incubators

225 Students