OldBlackDog
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Rebuilding B.C. dikes threatens 'historic' opportunity to heal salmon habitat, say environmentalists - BC News
After years of underfunding, the recent floods in British Columbia are prompting all levels of government to reassess gaps in how communities are protected from rising waters.
www.castanet.net
In August, UBC researchers found 85 per cent of historic salmon habitat had been lost since settlers arrived in the Lower Fraser River in the 1850s. The researchers, who mapped hundreds of obstacles in streams and along dikes, called for the removal of 1,200 barriers across the southern end of B.C.’s largest river.
