Seven adults and two children came to monitor wildlife in the Dillon Creek Wetlands, on April 1st.
Friends of Cortes Island (FOCI) streamkeepers Cec and Christine Robinson and FOCI’s Autumn Barrett-Morgan led the educational event. They began by listening to the birds, whose calls came from every side, and the gurgling flow of Dillon Creek. The aroma of damp earth rose to everyone’s nostrils.
Continue reading Monitoring fish and insects in the Dillon Creek WetlandsCKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Around 20 volunteers of all ages gathered at Linnaea Farm for the latest workbee on the Dillon Creek Wetland Restoration Project on Feb. 12.
Continue reading Dillon Creek wetland planted with water-loving native species
In the conclusion of a 3 part series on the Dillon Creek wetlands restoration, Project Manager Maranda Cross talks about BC’s disappearing wetlands and the revegetation currently underway at Linnaea farm on Cortes Island.
Continue reading Revegetating the Dillon Creek wetlandsAs the second year comes to an end, Project Manager Miranda Cross described the growth of a sediment island within the new Dillon Creek wetland on Cortes Island and gave an overview of the restoration project.
This project arose as a response to the algae blooms in Hague and Gunflint Lakes. Nutrients are entering the lakes from septic tanks, gardens, ditches, roads, creeks and livestock around the shore of the lakes.
Continue reading A growing sediment island in the Dillon Creek wetlands, project updateAs the second year of the Dillon Creek Wetlands Restoration project on Cortes Island is coming to an end, project manager Miranda Cross gave an overview of the creek’s natural history and ways to restore it.
She explained how European settlement brought changes to the landscape.
Continue reading Dillon Creek’s natural history, and ways to restore the damages
