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Buy the forest land to support the salmon
By Susan Rowntree, Times ColonistMarch 9, 2010
Now that shoreline access is going to be maintained for generations to come between Sooke and Jordan River, let's think of our wild salmon.
If the University of British Columbia could buy the rest of the Western Forest Products lands for forestry studies, this could lead to the restoration of wild salmon-bearing creeks that are not adjacent to lice- and virus-infested salmon farms.
Salmon can migrate to this area without being exposed to fish farms because this area is free of them to date.
From the southern tip of Vancouver Island between Sooke and Bamfield wild salmon might have the best chance of recovering their numbers in southwestern B.C.
UBC, streamkeeper volunteers, indigenous bands et al. could benefit from restoration of the logged banks, headwaters and areas of what were healthy salmon spawning grounds and creeks.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to recover wild salmon if a body like UBC forest studies could rehabilitate the remaining unbought, previously forested WFP land.
Healthy forests support fish.
Susan Rowntree
Victoria
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Buy the forest land to support the salmon
By Susan Rowntree, Times ColonistMarch 9, 2010
Now that shoreline access is going to be maintained for generations to come between Sooke and Jordan River, let's think of our wild salmon.
If the University of British Columbia could buy the rest of the Western Forest Products lands for forestry studies, this could lead to the restoration of wild salmon-bearing creeks that are not adjacent to lice- and virus-infested salmon farms.
Salmon can migrate to this area without being exposed to fish farms because this area is free of them to date.
From the southern tip of Vancouver Island between Sooke and Bamfield wild salmon might have the best chance of recovering their numbers in southwestern B.C.
UBC, streamkeeper volunteers, indigenous bands et al. could benefit from restoration of the logged banks, headwaters and areas of what were healthy salmon spawning grounds and creeks.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to recover wild salmon if a body like UBC forest studies could rehabilitate the remaining unbought, previously forested WFP land.
Healthy forests support fish.
Susan Rowntree
Victoria
© Copyright (c) The Victoria Times Colonist
Read more: http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/forest+land+support+salmon/2660438/story.html#ixzz0iD9aFdQO
Jim's Fishing Charters
www.JimsFishing.com
http://ca.youtube.com/user/Sushihunter250