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Salmon River Enhancement Society

Langley British Columbia Canada

Citizens working to protect & enhance Langley's largest watershed

Floodplain--------------------

The Salmonriver floodplain

Endangered rivers 2008

The Salmon River watershed

Salmon River Floodplain Assessment Phase 2

Summary notes of Floodplain management plan

Experts offer flood strategy Langley Advance May 1/ 07

Floodplain loss raises risks ( Doug McFee )

Groundwater----------------------------

Groundwater Legislation " Why"   ( Doug McFee )

Ground Water Protection Regulation - Phase 1

Ground Water Protection

Wild Salmon Policy  ---------

SEHAB comments

SRES Response

Education -------------

Letter To Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (March 24/06 )

Fisheries and Oceans response ( Aug. 25 / 06 )

Fisheries and Oceans Canada
News Release June 20 / 06

Salmon River Enhancement Society
Environmental Library

Coho Return To Salmon River

Drinking water

Fraser tops B.C. endangered rivers list

Keeping the stream

Contact your MLA

New Topics

SRES---- News release    June 2/08

Salmon in the Valley education program    ( field trip )

SRES ----brochure

Trinity Western grant proposal

1. The name of the society is SALMON RIVER ENHANCEMENT SOCIETY.

2. The purposes of the society are:

To protect and enhance the natural resources of the Salmon River Watershed through the encouragement and fostering of good relationships between all levels of government involved in the Salmon River Watershed.
To participate fully in all governmental and administrative processes relating to the Salmon River watershed.
To encourage and support research and public education on all resource management issues relating to the Salmon River watershed.
To foster and undertake enhancement programs consistent with the society's purposes.
To raise funds to support the purposes of the society.
To provide a forum within which Salmon River Watershed residents can participate in the protection and enhancement of the watershed's resources

Profile of Society

The Salmon River Enhancement Society is a citizens group formed in 1995. Several founding members of the group had been active in the Langley Environmental Organization and as citizen members of the Salmon River Watershed Partnership. There was a need for a separate citizens group which could work with the government agencies but would also increase public involvement and lobby the government agencies when appropriate. While the Langley Environmental Organization had been active in this role it was felt that stream stewardship works best with groups that are devoted to specific watersheds.

The goal of the Society is to increase public awareness of the natural values of the Salmon River and its watershed. We have had good public involvement and media coverage of Society events such as tree planting, Rivers Day and our Annual Open House with DFO during the spring trapping and tagging program of juvenile salmonids. Coming educational projects include a manual for new home owners to promote good environmental stewardship and the erection of roadside signs to advise people when they are entering and leaving the watershed. In addition, the society functions as a "watchdog" over the watershed and has an ongoing 2-year program of water quality testing in the Salmon River and tributaries.

The Society works in conjunction with SRWMP UBC and with LEPS and other local environment groups. We believe that we are making progress but there is much more to do to educate residents and to encourage them to become personally involved so that they will "buy in" to the importance of preservation and protection of the watershed.

Last update 07/24/2008