Landslide mitigation to protect salmon habitat begins at B.C. First Nation
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UCLUELET — A First Nation in British Columbia has partnered with an environmental group to try to mitigate the harms of a massive landslide — known locally as “Big Bertha” — on salmon-bearing streams in the area.
The Redd Fish Restoration Society says in a statement that it is partnering with Hesquiaht First Nation on Vancouver Island’s west coast to stabilize and prevent further erosion from the slide, which is sending sediment into local streams and degrading salmon habitat.
The slide is described by Redd Fish as “logging-related” and the first slide happened in 1999, although the group says more than 490 slides have happened since then on unstable terrain covering 430 hectares.
Society director Jessica Hutchinson says the slope has been “a source of ongoing damage” for local streams as the sediment smothers spawning beds and degrades aquatic habitat.
