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This summer, Peninsula Streams & Shorelines welcomed four Watershed Stewardship Technicians through the Government of Canada’s Canada Summer Jobs Program: Amelia Nimmon, Cole Mark, Helena Jacobsen, and Aislyn Adams. Over the course of the summer, they supported a wide range of stewardship, restoration, monitoring, and environmental education initiatives across Greater Victoria. Their work included stream

As summer comes to a close, we’re reflecting on an incredibly busy season of restoration, monitoring, stewardship, education, and community action across our local streams and shorelines. We’re excited to share our Summer 2026 Newsletter, with updates from MÁW̱UEĆ and the Colquitz River, new BEACH Program research and monitoring, rain garden projects, stewardship activities, education

Click on the photo below to check out the Jul-Aug 2026 edition (Issue 4) of our forage fish program newsletter!

The Colquitz River supports one of the largest urban coho salmon populations in Greater Victoria, and over the past several years, Peninsula Streams & Shorelines has been working to better understand these populations through long-term monitoring. Using smolt trapping, PIT tagging, adult escapement monitoring, and redd surveys, our latest report brings together data collected by

Click on the photo below to check out the May-Jun 2026 edition (Issue 3) of our forage fish program newsletter!

Spring has been a season full of momentum, growth, and community action across our local streams and shorelines. We’re excited to share our Spring 2026 Newsletter (with a new look!), highlighting restoration progress at MÁW̱UEĆ, Colquitz River, Nymph Point Park, and Millstream Creek, along with updates from our forage fish, green crab, education, stewardship, and

Prepared by Camosun College Environmental Technology students, the ‘2026 Rain Garden Quantification & Suitability Model of the Colquitz River Watershed’ identifies priority areas for rain garden implementation in the Colquitz by integrating salmonid observation data, hydrological mapping, stormwater infrastructure, land cover analysis, and field sampling to support targeted 6PPD-Q mitigation and climate-resilient watershed planning. Read

On a sunny spring morning in March, the sounds of gentle waves on the shoreline are punctuated by excited voices approaching a beach in the middle of a transformation. These are the lands of the W̱SÁNEĆ People, located on the north end of what is known today as the Saanich Peninsula, and the thick midden

On February 1, a major fire at Van Isle Marina in Sidney destroyed three large yachts, prompting an extensive environmental cleanup after the vessels sank at their berths. While emergency crews safely contained the blaze, oil and debris spread to parts of Tryon Beach. This area is recognized as the region’s most productive spawning ground

Click on the photo below to check out the Jan-Feb 2026 edition (Issue 1) of The Schooler newsletter! You can find all of our newsletters going back to 2018 here.