Al4-Sunday News, March 30, 1980

Students
to start
salmon

project

West Vancouver students
will take part in a program to
restore Rogers Creek as a
natural habitat for cohoe
salmon.

The decision was made by
the West Vancouver School
Board at Monday’s meeting
when Diana _ Rowles,
facilitator of environmental
education presented a
proposal for the Salmonid
Enhancement Program for
the board’s approval.

The proposal outlined the
government program which
is designed to rejuvenate the
habitat of salmon and in-
volves the clearing of creeks
obstructed by construction
or culverts, Rowels ex-
plained to the board.

The program will involve
Rogers Creek, Rowles said,
and although there are trout
in that creek now and there
used to be salmon at one
time, the construction of the
upper levels highway
destroyed the creek as a
salmon habitat, she added.

The highway construction
was a factor in destroying
the natural balance in the
water, Rowles pointed out.

The program will involve
two elementary teachers and
their classes. Janice Cashin
and her grade 6/7 class at
Pauline Johnson school will
participate in stages of the
program during which the
water quality and flow will
be tested in the creek and an
incubating box will be
placed in the creek.

CLASS TIME

About 50 hours of class
time will be spent preparing
the stream for the incubating
box, according to Rowles.
The work would begin in
April, continue through May
and June and be carried over
to the new school term
starting in September.

Stage two will involve
turning the creek into
“returning river” for the
salmon. Culverts will have to
be adapted to allow the
salmon to return up the river
and fish ladders might be
necessary to make this
possible, Rowles told the
Board.

An alternative to adapting
the culverts would be to
build a salmon trap and have
the ‘students collect the
trapped fish and carry them
past the obstacle.

Rowles pointed out that
some students from Cashin's
class and from the second
class involved - Dale Lund-
strom's grade 6/7 class at
Irwin Park School, hve along
the creek The = students
could look after the in-
cubating box on a full-ome
basis. Rowles said

The Irwin Park School
will parucipate in stage two
of the program = Rowles
estimated thal the classes
would spend one hour a
week working on the
program

The Board gave en
thusiastic approval for the
school district's participation
in the program The total
cost of the program, $450,
will be covered by the
government.

“The program = sounds
perfect,” Trustee Norm
Alban pointed out

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