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 Year Round Activities:
  • Ongoing Water Quality Monitoring
  • Rotary Screw Trap (Out-migration Research) - see picture below
  • Display Season; we regularly attend Vancouver Island Musicfest, CVEX, and CV Farmer's market. 
  • Fish trapping in upper watershed to determine and map fish use
  • Watershed Model Touring and Tsolum Field Trips for elementary schools
  • ​Tsolum Recovery Planning Habitat Status Report
  Current Projects:
  • ​We have started implementing Tsolum River Recovery Plan (TRRP) and are stating two main projects in 2017/18.   See our Recovery Plan page  and Upcoming projects page for more information!
  • Winter 2017 we  visited elementary schools with our 3D watershed model, teaching kids about their local watershed, land uses, the water cycle, and point sources of pollution/flood protection. 
  • We offer trees and expertise to landowners along rivers and creeks in the Tsolum Watershed. Contact trrs.projectcoordinator@gmail.com if you live near the river and are interested in riparian restoration.
Fry Salvaging
If you observe fry stranded in shallow pools, due to fluctuating water levels, contact the TRRS Project
​Coordinator Angela at (250) 650-7637
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Out-Migration 2017
The Rotary Screw Trap 2017 out-migration count is complete.  A total of 354,997 chum were estimated to outmigrate from the Tsolum River in spring 2017.  Estimates for other species were over 4,000 pinks, over 5,000 coho smolts, 5,000 coho fry, and nearly 2,000 rainbow/steelhead parr.  If you want to be part of this annual volunteer work, send us a note on our Contacts page.  
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Check out images of some of our activities and projects below!