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Annual Reports
Each year SkeenaWild, our collaborators, and our communities contribute to several accomplishments benefiting the Skeena Watershed and its salmon and steelhead. At the end of the year we take the opportunity to reflect on our past 12 months in our Annual Reports.
Watch the videos and download the full reports below.
2022
2023
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2024
Read the Report
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
Warming oceans, rivers, lakes, habitat loss and other pressures have Skeena wild salmon and steelhead in the crosshairs.
Summer Series Fisheries Updates
Get the latest fisheries updates in our Summer Series and visit our YouTube Channel.
Canada’s Wild Salmon Policy
Article: An assessment of conservation progress in British Columbia
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Michael H.H. Price, Karl k. English, Andrew G. Rosenberger, Misty MacDuffee, John D. Reynolds (2017)
Ecstall River Update
Alaska’s Dirty Secret Campaign
Science & Research
Morice Sockeye Rebuilding Plan
Rebuilding Plan for the Morice Sockeye Recovery Unit Report
M.H.H. Price et al (2021)
Sockeye Century Project
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Genetics of century-old fish scales reveal population
patterns of decline
Michael H.H. Price et al (2019)
Portfolio simplification arising from a century of change in
salmon population diversity and artificial production
Michael H.H. Price et al (2020)
Habitat modulates population-level responses of freshwater salmon growth to a century of change in climate and competition
Michael H.H. Price et al (2023)
Habitat Protection: Land Use Planning and Responsible Forestry
Opportunities for Sustainable Forestry in NW BC
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SkeenaWild (2019)
Wild Salmon Policy Habitat Assessments Report
WSP Indicator Analysis for the Kispiox TSA: Riparian Disturbance Freshwater Atlas (FWA) Assessment Watersheds
Prepared for SkeenaWild, Prepared by Eclipse Geomatics (2020)
Babine Wild Salmon Policy Analysis 2022 – Freshwater Atlas (FWA) Assessment Watersheds
Visit the Skeena Maps Portal to learn more.
Babine Wild Salmon Policy Analysis 2022/2023 – Interior Watershed Assessment Protocol (IWAP) Watersheds
Visit the Skeena Maps Portal to learn more.
Babine Wild Salmon Policy Analysis 2022/2023 – Interior Watershed Assessment Protocol (IWAP) Watersheds
Visit the Skeena Maps Portal to learn more.
Babine Wild Salmon Policy Indicator Analysis 2022 – Reports
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Babine Lake Watershed
Babine River Watershed
Watershed Stewardship Decision Support Tool
Visit the Skeena Maps Portal to learn more.
Forestry and Carbon in BC
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Dr. Jim Pojar (2019)
Goshawk Populations Report
Report: Best Management Practices for Northern Goshawk Foraging Habitat: Retaining Old Growth Structual Attributes
P. Ferguson, F. Doyle, M.Buirs (2023)
Habitat Protection: Estuary Protection
Ecologically Significant Area Resources
Visit Fisheries and Ocean’s Canada Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Policy Statement, August 2019
Habitat Protection: Responsible Mining
Responsible Mining Report, Video and Checklist
Report
Checklist
Key Risks & Lessons at the Red Chris Mine Report
Report: A.Berchold, 2025
Toxic Legacy Tailings Map, Video and Reports
Visit the British Columbia Mine Tailings Map to learn more.
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Risks of Tailings Dam
Failures in the Face of
Climate Change
Analysis of BC Future Tailings Storage Database
Dirty Dozen Reports (2025, 2023, 2021)
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2025
2023
2021
Telkwa Coal Project Technical Reviews
Visit What Matters In Our Valley to learn more.
Water Quality and Fish Health Data Resources
Ongoing Legacy of Metal Mines on Babine Lake
A.E. Berchtold & M.H.H. Price, 2021
Sub-lethal metal toxicity concerns for Unuk watershed salmonids from Seabridge Gold’s proposed KSM mine
M.H.H. Price, 2014
Sub-lethal metal toxicity effects on
salmonids: a review
M.H.H. Price, 2013
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
Activity: 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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Activity: 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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Activity: 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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Activity: 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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Activity: Salmon Life Cycle Word Search Puzzle
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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Activity: 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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Experiment: Soil Erosion Bottles
This experiment demonstartes to students how unprotected soil can be washed away by rain, causing damage to the environment, and it also reveals how the vegetation dependent on soil to survive can help protect it.
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Experiment: Water Filter Challenge
In this activity, students will compete in groups to make the most effective filtration system for clarifying dirty water. While, this activity does not filter the water to reach drinking standards, it does help students explore the first stage of water treatment— filtration.
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Arts & Crafts: Michelle Stoney Colouring Pages
Michelle Stoney is a Gitxsan/Cree artist from northern BC who has generously offered to share her artwork with the public. These colouring pages include salmon, wildlife, plants, trees, cultural images, fish, insects, amphibians and seasonal images. Each Image is accompanied by the following message from the artist: ***you have my permission to use this however you like, print it out, colour it on your phone , iPad , add to it, change it up, bead it , paint it … anything goes ****** I just please ask that you do not use it for sale or for profit *** If you’d like to make a donation (this is my full time job) I am accepting PayPal or etransfer to [email protected]
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Arts & Crafts: Make a Salmon Life Cycle Plate
Students will be able to organize the stages of the salmon life cycle in order, and recognize the cyclical nature of the life cycle, while having some fun colouring. Thanks to Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Stream to Sea Program for the colouring page.
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Education Support Resources
Download our summary of excellent resources available to support both classroom and community-based education programs relevant to salmon and watersheds.
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Responsible Development Initiative
Renewable Energy Report 2021
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Overview of the Renewable Energy Sector in Northwest British Columbia
Dan Mesec and Tania Millen (2017/2021)
Responsible Mining Report
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Responsible Mining in British Columbia: Guidelines Towards Best Practices
Adrienne E. Berchtold and Michael H.H. Price (2018)
Tourism in Northwest BC
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Tourism in Northwest British Columbia: Operations, Initiatives and Opportunities
Tania Millen (2018/2020)
Opportunities for Sustainable Forestry in Northwest BC
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Opportunities for Sustainable Forestry in Northwest British Columbia
Tania Millen (2019/2020)