Wuikinuxv Lake Watershed Restoration Project
Wuikinuxv Nation
Photo: Wuikinuxv Lake by Coast Funds
The traditional salmon management system in Wuikinuxv Territory resulted in extremely high abundances of salmon and involved specific families and individuals in deep relationships with specific salmon nursery streams and rivers, with rights and responsibilities to these individual salmon populations. If families and individuals can be reconnected with these rights and responsibilities, salmon populations have a chance at being restored. This project aims to reconnect families with their home watersheds and rebuild traditional stewardship relationships with those places. Wuikinuxv Territory has no roads connecting the community of Kitit to the rest of the territory, so all the watersheds in the territory are boat-accessible only. Reconnecting families to these watersheds will increase the health and well-being of community members, as well as position the community to take a leadership role in watershed restoration in the watersheds that have been heavily impacted by historical logging and overfishing.
CATEGORY
Indigenous Knowledges
and Land-based Learning
WATERSHED(S)
North & Central Coast
GRANT AMOUNT
$290,000
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