What is the Community Salmon Restoration Atlas?
The Community Salmon Restoration Atlas (below) is an interactive map of habitat restoration projects funded by the Community Salmon Program, with projects from other community-based groups to be added in future.
Community-led restoration projects are a proactive and productive way to engage communities and improve habitats. In British Columbia and the Yukon, community-led initiatives funded in part through the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s Community Salmon Program have resulted in the rehabilitation of more than 1.1 million square metres of streams and the planting of more than 360,000 trees and shrubs in salmon-bearing catchments. Areas of tidal marsh, eelgrass, and other marine ecosystems, which form important habitats for Pacific salmon, have also been rehabilitated and restored through the Community Salmon Program.
With this Atlas, community groups and anyone interested in restoration can learn about past projects. Information on the location, activities, techniques employed, people involved, and outcomes can be explored. Together this can inform future restoration strategies and priorities.
We Welcome Additional Community Restoration Projects
Our goal is to include as many community-funded salmon habitat restoration projects in the Atlas as possible. We will add projects that West Coast Aquatic and Redd Fish Restoration Society are collating, and we are also interested in collecting information on other community-funded salmon habitat restoration projects throughout British Columbia. If your community group has estuarine, marine or freshwater restoration projects it would like to add, please see the Contact Us page and send us an email if you have information to share, or use the Data Submission Form.
We also recognize the tremendous value in gathering traditional and historical ecological knowledge and one goal of the Data Centre is to collate these vital types of information. See the First Nations page for details of the First Nations Ecological Knowledge Project.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to DFO’s Habitat Restoration Centre of Expertise, West Coast Aquatic, and Redd Fish Restoration Society for their support. Funding was provided by DFO’s Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Fund as part of the PSF led project: Greening the Salish Sea: Decision Support Tools for Successful Pacific Salmon Habitat Recovery. Additionally, thank you to the many dedicated people working towards salmon habitat restoration.