2. Restoring Shelters in the Stream

This new exhibit illustrates how B.C.'s Watershed Restoration Program is restoring watersheds damaged by past logging practices. It shows the importance of installing fish-friendly culverts and how the addition of large woody debris to streams provides better fish habitat. Rivers vary widely in size, length, grade and where they get their water. The size and flow of small coastal rivers can greatly fluctuate as they receive most of their water from rainfall. As a result, their maximum size is reached in the winter when it rains the most. Most rivers in the interior of B.C. are at their zenith in late spring or early summer, when the snowmelt runs off the mountains.

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