Media
April 28, 2026
PR Newswire - The BC Conservation & Biodiversity Awards Honour 20 Conservation Based Charities with $350,000 in Funding
April 15, 2026
Peninsula News Review - Peninsula Streams celebrates watershed champions with Esquimalt soiree
February 23, 2026
Cowichan Valley Citizen - Volunteers document egg mortality as harbour cleanup continues in Sidney
November 20, 2025
University of Victoria - Bracing for rain: sustainability scholar project
October 9, 2025
CBC Radio All Points West - LISTEN: Freedivers helping fight European green crab invasion
October 9, 2025
Peninsula News Review - As spawning starts, the search for salmon nests is on in Saanich
October 8, 2025
CFAX 1070 - LISTEN: Meet the group wading, snorkeling and freediving to cull invasive European Green Crabs in the Sooke Basin
October 7, 2025
Saanich News - Group warns of Greater Victoria shoreline being lost to private interests
October 1, 2025
Peninsula News Review - Freedivers join battle against Sooke European green crab invasion
September 8, 2025
Times Colonist - Salmon found again in Saanich’s Gabo Creek after restoration
June 11, 2025
Victoria News - Salmon projects in Greater Victoria receive more than $110K in funding
April 26, 2025
Saanich News - Volunteers track salmon stocks via Saanich 'silent' smolt migration
April 1, 2025
Seaside Magazine - Rain Gardens: More Than Just a Pretty Space
February 7, 2025
Oak Bay News - PHOTOS: 'Inexplicable' fish egg at Oak Bay beach a healthy sign
January 23, 2025
The Martlet - Local initiative seeks to map 1,000 rain gardens on southern Vancouver Island
December 18, 2024
Oak Bay News - Salmon returns surge in Greater Victoria's urban streams
October 25, 2024
Goldstream News Gazette - Eco-warrior Langford students wage war on invasive plant species
October 24, 2024
CFAX 1070 - LISTEN: Spooky shoreline cleanup this Saturday at Regatta Point Park
October 24, 2024
Sooke News Mirror - PHOTOS: Hunt for invasive crabs in Greater Victoria estuary comes up empty
October 21, 2024
Victoria News - Break out the sustainable costumes for Victoria shoreline cleanup
October 13, 2024
Times Colonist - Trick or Trash: Cleaning up with a Halloween theme
October 13, 2024
Times Colonist - Our Community: Sooke mural celebrates Indigenous culture; a Halloween waterway cleanup
September 27, 2024
Island Fisherman Magazine - What Is A Streamkeeper?
September 23, 2024
Oak Bay News - Volunteers help prepare for salmon's return to Oak Bay's Bowker Creek
August 26, 2024
Chek News - ‘It’s really exciting’: KELSET Creek in Sidney slowly recovering after years of contamination
August 24, 2024
Chek News - Saanich celebrates completion of Gabo Creek restoration project
August 13, 2024
Oak Bay News - PHOTOS: Volunteers pull 770 kg of pollutants from Brentwood Bay beach
July 17, 2024
Victoria News - View Royal saltwater marsh to be restored, public's help needed
June 5, 2024
Victoria News - Peninsula group ready for ‘all hands on deck’ fight against invasive crabs
May 30, 2024
Victoria News - Foundation supports Greater Victoria salmon recovery efforts
April 17, 2024
Goldstream News Gazette - VIDEO: Willows students gently launch 100 fish fry into Oak Bay creek
March 21, 2024
POLIS Project World Water Day - PSS Biologist Katrina Adams in panel discussion at the University of Victoria
March 13, 2024
Peninsula News Review - Peninsula Streams cancels marsh restoration project
January 19, 2024
Oak Bay News - Testers find tire toxin lethal to salmon in coho-bearing Saanich stream
January 17, 2024
Times Colonist - Toxin linked to tire wear found in water samples from Colquitz tributary
January 5, 2024
CTV News - Warm December and low snowpack could mean trouble for BC salmon
November 7, 2023
Times Colonist - Low returns so far for chum, coho on Goldstream River
September 1, 2023
Seaside Magazine - From Sea to Soil to Sustainability
July 23, 2023
Times-Colonist - Beach reclamation gives new life to Lime Bay
July 21, 2023
CHEK News - 5PM News @ 41:23 minutes - Songhees Walkway Beach Restoration
June 5, 2023
Engage with Nature Based Solutions - Local by Nature Colquitz River Restoration
April 4, 2023
Peninsula News Review - PSS Launches Campaign as Pollution Levels Rise in Local Creeks
March 29, 2023
Victoria News - Suspected paint spill turns Mermaid Creek white
March 24, 2023
Goldstream News Gazette - View Royal approves nearly $60K in community grants-in-aid
January 8, 2023
Victoria News - Volunteers clear smothering debris from Oak Bay creek to ready for 30K salmon eggs
February 4, 2023
Capital Daily - Oak Bay has 28,000 new residents: Bowker Creek’s chum salmon eggs
November 13, 2022
Saanich News - PHOTOS: Students dig Greater Victoria group one bed closer to 1,000 gardens
November 18, 2022
Times Colonist - 'It will affect a lot of fish': Incubating salmon eggs swept away in raging waterways
October 30, 2022
Times Colonist - Surf smelts spawning again in Lime Bay, after restoration project
October 27, 2022
CHEK News - Forage fish make a return to pocket beach in Vic West
August 29, 2022
CTV News - Repairs to Langford 'fish ladder' underway after severe winter storms
August 13, 2022
Times Colonist - Victoria company fined $11,000 for fouling creek, killing fish
August 9, 2022
CTV News - North Saanich waterway restoration to include improved fish habitat
August 7, 2022
Times Colonist - 'Cool fishy features' highlight North Saanich waterway's extreme makeover
August 5, 2022
Resilient Coasts for Salmon - Construction at Songhees Demo site Commencing Soon!
May 10, 2022
Saanich News - Salmon biology, ecology on lesson plan for North Saanich students in fry release
February 21, 2022
Saanich News - VIDEO: Surf smelt egg found on Oak Bay beach signals spawning ground for forage fish
January 30, 2022
CHEK News - Vital People: Volunteers place close to 30,000 salmon eggs in Bowker Creek
October 31, 2021
CHEK News - Colquitz Creek cleanup reveals low fish stock
August 5, 2021
CBC - Plans underway to bring salmon back to Victoria's Bowker Creek
June 12, 2021
Victoria News - North Saanich's Deep Cove elementary school helps to restock Sidney's Reay Creek - Restocking followed bleach spill that killed hundreds of fish in creek
January 25, 2021
Focus On Victoria - Dreaming of salmon at Bowker Creek
December 20, 2020
Peninsula News Review - Santa lends a hand during beach cleanup in North Saanich - Volunteers collected 10 cubic metres of debris from Pat Bay shoreline
August 24, 2020
Saanich News - There's plenty fishy about these creek restoration efforts! - Saanich staff, community volunteers continue enhancing salmon spawning waterways
August 20, 2020
Victoria News - Testing underway for Bowker Creek as a salmon habitat - Bowker Creek could have salmon fry by 2022
August 7, 2020
Victoria News - Fish habitat enhancement champions set to start next project in Saanich - The latest stage of restorations to Colquitz Creek runs Aug. 4 to 14
July 28, 2020
Victoria News - Coalition calls for public input on environmental framework for Saanich Peninsula - Document currently drafted calls for improved collaboration among local municipalities
July 11, 2020
Peninsula News Review - Residents around Sidney's Reay Creek Pond welcome federal remediation efforts - It is not clear yet whether Sidney will renovate nearby dam at the same time
June 25, 2020
CFAX 1070 Adam Stirling Noon Hour (Start listening at 1:55) - Ian's interview about the Millstream Fishway Project
June 24, 2020
Times Colonist - Millstream fish ladder to help thousands of spawning salmon, trout
June 24, 2020
CHEK News - Millstream fish ladder expected to be a game changer for salmon
June 17, 2020
Peninsula News Review - Millstream fish ladder gives salmon, trout a leg up
June 16, 2020
CTV Vancouver Island News - News at 6 - start watching at 19:50 - Ian's Interview about the Millstream Fishway Project and BC SRIF Funding
June 16, 2020
CTV Vancouver Island News - Vancouver Island group receives $300K to support wild salmon
March 6, 2020
Vic News - Millstream fish ladder extension work starts Monday - Potential traffic disruptions along Atkins Road at Mill Hill Park
February 12, 2020
Victoria News - Environmental coalition calls on Saanich Peninsula communities to develop coordinating vision - Saanich Peninsula Environmental Coalition (SPEC) to meet Feb. 20 to further agenda
June 16, 2019
Goldstream News Gazette - Peninsula Streams Society to restore 120 metres of Colquitz Watershed
March 18, 2018
Island Social Trends - Construction of the new Millstream Fishway to help with salmon preservation is slated to start in July
April 16, 2017
Chek News - Peninsula Streams Society’s Creatures of Habitat program
April 30, 2015
Saanich News - Royal Oak students bringing Mahon Creek back to life
Summer 2013
District of Saanich - Our Backyard - A Newsletter on the Natural Environment in Saanich
December 12, 2012
Saanich News - Two more fuel spills leave two Saanich waterways polluted