home.social

#bccoast — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bccoast, aggregated by home.social.

  1. #ThrowbackThursday
    2020.

    #Laichwiltach Nation’s Hereditary Chief Tsahaukuse's (aka George Quocksister Jr.) traditional, #handwoven Chief's #hat. Made from yellow #cedar bark with beading & an #EagleFeather attached.
    Sitting in front of the woven hat is a row of some #handcarved miniature canoe #paddles, carved from red & yellow cedar. Chief Darren Blaney of the #Xwémalhkwu aka #Homalco #FirstNation #carved over 100 of these paddles. They were carved in #honour of the many young Homalco lives lost.

    #Indigenous #CoastSalish #BCFirstNations #IndigenousBC #NativeCanada #IndigenousArt #NativeArt #IndigenousCanada #handmade #BritishColumbia #PacificNorthwest #ButeInlet #ImOnABoat #VancouverIsland #CoastalBC #BCCoast #Cascadia #Salishan #PNW #Comox #photography

  2. The #CowichanRiver #estuary is one of the largest & most important in #BritishColumbia. The #watershed drains 90,000 hectares & provides #CriticalHabitat to dozens of #fish species, including #steelhead, #Chinook, #chum, #coho & #PinkSalmon, as well as brown, #cutthroat & #RainbowTrout. But the #Cowichan’s troubles are by no means unique; they are a #CaseStudy for a much larger problem.

    #TimberCompanies store #LogBooms all along the #BCcoast, says Jamieson Atkinson, a fish #biologist & program manager for the #Aquatic #Research & #Restoration Centre at #BritishColumbiaConservationFoundation. “It’s shocking.” While #estuaries make up less than 3% of British Columbia’s coast, they provide rich #habitat for 80% of the province’s coastal #wildlife. The #FraserRiver estuary, near #Vancouver on the mainland, supports more than 300 species of #birds & 80 species of fish & #shellfish for at least part of their life cycles.

    thetyee.ca/News/2024/07/05/Est

    @thetyee

    #BCpoli #environmental #WildFirst #ProtectNature #ProtectWildlife #Ecological #ecosystems #Conservation #VancouverIsland #WildSalmonAlliance #ProtectWatersheds #StopEcocide #NatureFirst #VanIsle #Nature #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #PacificNorthwest #WildlifeConservation #HabitatRestoration #ProtectNature #DefendNature #PNW #IndustrialPollution #BanCorporateLobbyists

  3. Work at the #PebbleHill #reservoir began in the fall of 2021 to prepare for #NaturalDisasters in the future.
    Metro #Vancouver has been steadily #upgrading its reservoirs since the '90s to ensure it can provide #water to the region following the "#BigOne " — a #megathrust #earthquake expected to hit the #BCcoast someday.
    cbc.ca/amp/1.6783105

    #BritishColumbia #Canada #PNW #PacificNorthwest #EarthquakeProofing #PlanningAhead #Cascadia #YVR

  4. #AlertBayShipyards now #abandoned & #decaying - it's falling into the ocean, slowly. #Panorama shot of part of the old #shipyard & a sketchy, wobbly & crooked boardwalk to dock w/abandoned building that nature is reclaiming back. Lots of moss, plants & baby trees are growing all over it.

    #NamgisTerritory #BCCoast #GalentinesWeek #BritishColumbia #Canada #PNW #PacificNorthwest #BCNorthIslands #WorldInMyEyes #MyPerspective #samsung8 #CellphonePhotos #RoadTrip

  5. There's fir & cedar #trees - #growing out of the decaying old #dock #wood - which used to be a loading area for long abandoned fish saltery/cannery/fish nets sorting station. #Nature is incredibly #resilient & if left alone, it will #reclaim anything man has built.

    #AlertBay #CormorantIsland #BCCoast #BCNorthIslands #BritishColumbia #Canada #PNW #PacificNorthwest #GalentinesWeek #RoadTrip #NamgisNation #NamgisTerritory #WorldInMyEyes #MyPerspective #Samsung8