Researchers on B.C. Salt Spring Island are working on a plan to protect an important freshwater reserve as risks mount amid a growing climate emergency.
Researchers with Transition Salt Spring, a non-profit dedicated to addressing climate change in the community, are working to protect the area from future climate disasters — namely wildfires that could compromise freshwater on the island.
Ruth Waldick, an ecologist and former Environment Canada researcher, is working on a plan to protect the area. "By removing some trees, doing some thinning, selective openings and so on to allow understory to come in … more water [will be] coming into the aquifer," he said. Although the forest could naturally correct itself over the next century, Mineau said they'd like to speed things up to protect the forest right away rather than wait and risk a fire destroying the area.Non-profit in Salt Spring Island, B.C. offers rebate to homeowners collecting rainwater
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