“This very exciting project will not only revitalize habitats, but also help to revitalize local economy by employing many local contractors and crew members to complete this very large endeavor,” a release from Greenways says.įunders, donors, partners, and experts, include the A-tlegay Fisheries Society, A Wood Bulldozing, the Campbell River Salmon Foundation, the City of Campbell River, Environment Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund, Fernhill Consulting, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Lewkowich Engineering Associates Ltd., Mainstream Biological Consultants, Mosaic Forest Management, Northwest Hydraulics Consulting, Pacific Wood Waste, Raven Forest Products, TerraWest Environmental Consultants, and Windsor Mill Sales as well as consultation with many more local specialists and biologists.In June, leaders from BPRD and the City agreed to develop a Memorandum of Understanding together to lay out the goals of the Mirror Pond dredging project and to update the 2015 Community Vision, which was the result of public meetings, surveys and oversight from the Mirror Pond Management Board and Ad-Hoc Committee. Re-vegetation and monitoring work will continue for a several years as Greenways and We Wai Kum staff transplants eelgrass, and plants native marsh and shoreline vegetation.

The Mill Pond was dredged in 1980 for log boom storage and the current underwater elevations are not suitable for the eelgrass and marsh habitat that is so vital for juvenile salmon to grow in a safe, productive environment with adequate cover from predators and ample food sources before they migrate out to the Salish Sea for the next phase of their life cycle. This will be achieved by returning the Mill Pond area of the Campbell River Estuary to closer to pre-industry conditions. Approximately 20,000 square metres of habitat is targeted for rehabilitation. The goal of the project is to increase rearing habitat for juvenile salmon. This summer, the job at hand will be restoring elevations to the historical levels that existed before the dredging of the Mill Pond for log boom storage. The closures will be temporary and intermittent.

Greenways Land Trust and the We Wai Kum First Nation are continuing work on a large-scale restoration project in the Baikie Island Nature Reserve this summer, though that means there will be intermittent closures of the Raven Trail.Ī section of the trail between the footbridges and the Baikie Island parking lot will be closed to make way for machinery entering and exiting the worksite during July and August.

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