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Annual Reports
SkeenaWild Annual Report – 2024
SkeenaWild Annual Report – 2023
SkeenaWild Annual Report – 2022
Sustainable Fisheries Management & Climate Change Solutions
54 Degrees North Podcast
54 degrees North documents the science and stories of climate change from local residents in the Smithers region of British Columbia. We’re already facing climate impacts and are warming faster than other regions. We will need to both act and adapt.
Artifishal Patagonia
Patagonia produced a film that takes a deep dive into the impacts large scale fish hatcheries are having on wild Pacific salmon here at home and around the world.
Skeena Salmon and Climate Change
Climate Change Series: Drought in the Skeena
Summer Series Fisheries Updates
Get the latest fisheries updates in our Summer Series and visit our YouTube Channel.
Science Article – Price Et Al. 2017 WSP Assessment
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Ecstall River Update
Alaska’s Dirty Secret
Science & Research
Rebuilding Diminished Salmon Populations Report
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Skeena Sockeye Century Project Science Articles
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Habitat Protection: Land Use Planning and Forestry Reform
SkeenaWild Forestry Report and Video
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Using Wild Salmon Policy Habitat Assessments Report
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Watershed Stewardship Decision Support Tool
Visit the Skeena Maps Portal to learn more.
Forestry and Carbon Report and Video
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Goshawk Populations Report
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Habitat Protection: Estuary Protection
Ecologically Significant Area Resources
Visit the Fish and fish habitat protection policy statement, August 2019
Habitat Protection: Mining Reform
Responsible Mining Report, Video and Checklist
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Toxic Legacy Tailings Map, Video and Reports
Visit the British Columbia Mine Tailings Map to learn more.
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Dirty Dozen Report 2023 & 2021
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2023
2021
Telkwa Coal Project Technical Reviews
Visit What Matters In Our Valley to learn more.
Water Quality and Fish Health Data Resources
Berchtold Price 2021:
Toxicity Report Price 2014:
Price 2013 Metal Toxicity Effect:
Education: Lesson Plans
Unit 1: Skeena Salmon
Lesson 1.1: The Life & Times of Skeena Salmon
Lesson 1.2: Skeena Salmon Species
Unit 2: The Skeena Watershed & Ecosystems
Lesson 2.1: What is a Watershed?
Lesson 2.2: My Watershed, My Home: Discover the Skeena Watershed
Lesson 2.3: The Skeena Estuary (coming soon)
Lesson 2.4: Skeena Ecosystems (coming soon)
Unit 3: Healthy Watershed, Healthy Salmon
Lesson 3.1: Water Quality Testing
Lesson 3.2: Aquatic Macroinvertebrates
Lesson 3.3: Healthy Watershed, Healthy Salmon: Salmon Habitat Assessment (coming soon)
Unit 4: Salmon Struggles: Impacts, Threats and Solutions
Lesson 4.1: Climate Change & Skeena Salmon
Lesson 4.2: Consensus Decision Making: The Lakelse Sockeye Case Study (coming soon)
Unit 5: Cultural Connections
Lesson 5.1: First Peoples and Skeena Salmon (coming soon)
Education: Activities, Experiments, Arts & Crafts
Smell Your Way Home Game
Salmon have an incredible migration pattern, but which sense organs to salmon use to navigate back to their home stream? Get some first-hand experience what it’s like to sniff your way back to your natal stream!
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Make a Watershed
Using simple materials like rocks, spray bottles, and cocoa powder, this activity illustrates the basic properties of a watershed: how water flows from higher elevations to lower elevations, and how watersheds are interconnected.
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Salmon Math Problem
Salmon lay thousands of eggs but very few make it to the age where they come back and reproduce. Here are a few reasons why. Use the numbers in this document to find out how many salmon are left. Use this page for your work and keep a running tab.
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Salmon Life Cycle Crossword Puzzle
Test your salmon knowledge with this crossword puzzle developed by SkeenaWild. Just print out the pdf and see how well you know your salmon.
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Salmon Challenges
Have some fun searching for words related to our Skeena salmon and the salmon life cycle, developed by SkeenaWild. Just print out the pdf and have fun.
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Salmon Life Cycle Word Search Puzzle
Online interactive Game (Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian) – What is it like for salmon to swim to their spawning grounds? Play this educational online game to find out!irst Peoples and Skeena Salmon (coming soon)
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Pop Bottle Water-Cycling Terrarium
In this activity, students make and take home their own water-cycling terrarium. They will experience how an environment changes and grows as well as how water is conserved through the mini water cycle in their terrarium.
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Responsible Development Initiative
Renewable Energy Report 2021
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Responsible Mining Report
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Tourism in Northwest BC
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Opportunities for Sustainable Forestry in Northwest BC
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