Activity Schedule 2026
Bat Project: ongoing
Echometer Group: 2025 Data processing and reports (January/February)
Selection of eight new locations (March/April)
Kaleidoscope Group: report preparation of 2025 data (January)
Start of 2026 Monitoring
Glass Fiber Phase II: ongoing, pending funding
VIU cooperation arrangements (January)
Fundraising (February/March)
Collection of bio-samples (May/June), pending funding
Westcan Terminal: new
Drone Survey North shore Westcan (February)
Meetings with Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, West Coast Environmental Law (January-March)
Earth Day: new
Turn off lights (February 2026)
Mariners Island: ongoing
Drone survey (March)
Log count and removal (April)
Forage Fish Monitoring: ongoing, pending funding
Dungeness crab larvae monitoring: ongoing (starting in May)
CERCA’s self-guided Estuary Trail: ongoing
Maintenance (May/June)
Blackley Trail: ongoing
Planting/seeding jointly with Nature Cowichan (March)
Swallow Population Monitoring: ongoing
Box cleaning (August)
Lobbying for: ongoing
Salt Marsh rehabilitation initiatives
Lobbying against: ongoing
inter-tidal log-boom storage
light pollution in the estuary