TUC is anticipating Busy 2019 season in the North Saskatchewan River Watershed.
During the summer of 2018, TUC staff were busy in the foothills west of Caroline working on projects along Rocky Creek and Fall Creek to help rehabilitate habitat for Alberta’s provincial fish – the Bull Trout. 2019 looks to be no different, with projects slated for a number of streams in the headwaters thanks to funding from the Environmental Damages Fund for the Upper North Saskatchewan Watershed (UNSW) Rehabilitation Project. The project was launched in October 2019 and will wrap up in March 2020, and is a partnership between TUC and Alberta Environment and Parks.
This project fits well within the North Central Native Trout Recovery program and will benefit Bull Trout, and Mountain Whitefish, in addition to other fish species in the region. The UNSW project was launched to identify fish habitat concerns and rehabilitate habitat through aquatic and riparian restoration and/or management changes. The project team has been successful at implementing rehabilitation works along streams within this watershed to restore damage from OHV trails and there are additional opportunities to restore more streams that have suffered damage from industrial, agricultural, or recreational land use activities in the upper North Saskatchewan River watershed.
Using fisheries and recreational trail assessment data collected by AEP in 2018, TUC is working with AEP to prioritize rehabilitation work and plan activities for the 2019 field season. 2019 will be a busy year ahead with sediment monitoring training events for volunteers, temperature logger installations, and construction work all planned for summer 2019 with a focus on the Tay River and other area streams. Stay tuned for volunteer workday notices so you can help us make a difference for native fish recovery in Alberta!
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