Convening for Action on Vancouver Island (CAVI) is a pilot program at a regional scale. CAVI will integrate with other groups, move ‘green value' from concept to practice, and encourage the introduction of a ‘design with nature' way of thinking into local government decision processes.
Stoltz Bendway Weirs – Cowichan River
The issue of how to accommodate a doubling of the population in the high growth regions of British Columbia is the driver for implementing changes in the way we develop land and use water. Conversations with elected officials are yielding insights that are shaping implementation of Convening for Action pilot programs in three regions of British Columbia, namely: the Okanagan, Vancouver Island and Greater Vancouver.
A fishing guide talks about the stewardship of the Cowichan River
Population assessment of the chum salmon population of the Cowichan watershed
A community based and partner funded 'Cowichan Basin Water Management Plan' hosted by Cowichan Valley Regional District
Assessment of the juvenile salmonid migration barrier at the Cowichan L. Weir
Stoltz Bluff 2005
Cowichan Tribes
Dr. David Harper and Michelle Vessey explain how the seasonal weir at Cowichan Lake operates.
The 2005 chinook escapement assessment results and the assessment method used is the unusual modified Alaskan counting fence operated in the lower Cowichan River by the Cowichan Tribes contracted by DFO.
