SEHAB site visit to Tsútswecw Provincial Park (Roderick Haig-Brown) today. Thanks to Dave Smith and others for meeting us there and doing a walkabout.
SEHAB is the Salmonid Enhancement and Habitat Advisory Board to Fisheries and Oceans. These volunteers meet three times a year to gather comments and advice from stewardship groups across BC and share them with DFO Regional HQ.
I’ve been an alternate and full board member of the Salmonid Enhancement and Habitat Advisory Board to the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans for some nine years now.
We meet three times year, and board members collect and share information from stewardship groups from across British Columbia. We have expert speakers in, and tour local habitat restoration sites, dams, fish ladders, etc.
We distill all that information, positive and negative, and report to senior DFO management at Pacific Regional HQ.
Here are a few shots from our latest meeting in Kamloops, BC:
BC Hydro approached Byrne Creek Streamkeepers to get a creek orientation.
Folks were so enthusiastic about exploring the creek and ravine today that a 15-minute site meeting turned into a two-hour ramble! 
Hydro staff are planning a watershed display and activities during the Rivers Day week in September, and BCSS volunteers will set up our booth and information display at the Hydro building, and perhaps lead a creek tour or two.
We came across this huge banana slug:
So I thought I’d go photo hunting for birds and insects down at the Fraser Foreshore Park ponds in south Burnaby just west of Byrne Creek.
This is the first pond west of the outfall of Byrne Creek into the Fraser. Ran into this dyke construction. Thought I’d better go home and start building an Ark. . .
More info in this Burnaby Now story.
We checked out the Burrard Inlet Fish Fest in Port Moody and then walked to Noon’s Creek Hatchery and back.
Fry in Noon’s Creek
Salmon at Work!
Lots of killdeer on the mud flats
Barn Swallow action
I’ll be doing a presentation on the history and development of Burnaby watersheds, and talking about what volunteer streamkeepers do, at the Metrotown Public Library branch in #Burnaby, BC, on Sept. 19 at 7:00pm.
You can register at the link below:
Every summer the City of Burnaby Parks Department has summer camps for kids at Ron McLean Park in SE Burnaby. For the second year, Byrne Creek Streamkeepers were asked to take the kids on a tour of the creek.
This year I was the leader, and it was a blast. We walked from the park down to the creek, and back, talking about the local fish, wildlife, plants, etc.
The famous Byrne Creek mini-Grind : – ).
Nice to see lots of fry in Byrne Creek today with fry spotter extraordinaire Yumi Kosaka.
If you look closely you may be able to see a wee one just above Yumi’s wrist. Yumi has great non-threatening vibes : – ).
Also collecting garbage along the way. . .
Looks like the salmon run in our foyer is off to an early start. Another of Yumi’s lovely creations.
On the upside I just finished my first Byrne Creek ravine circumrambulation in SE Burnaby, BC, since I hurt my foot a few weeks ago, and it feels fine.
On the downside it was scary to see so many cedars drying out in the forest, and not even the middle of June.
