The Nature Chilliwack Club is active in Citizen Science. Our members participate in Christmas Bird Counts, Butterfly Monitoring, eBird, Project Feeder Watch, Great Canadian Birdathon, Great Back Yard Bird Count, Ice Watch, water testing and many other programs that contribute to our understanding of nature. We recently completed our Chilliwack area bird brochure. We steward the Camp Slough Wildlife Area (CSWA). We hold monthly maintenance work bees (Coffee Cutters) at the site and are hosting a series of photoblitzes from August to October 2023 to document the biodiversity of the wildlife area.
Camp Slough Wildlife Area
The CSWA, a broccoli field overgrown with blackberries when donated in 1994, is a 8.1 hectare site with mixed forest, field, river and winter pond habitats. The property is bounded by Camp River Road on the north and the Hope Slough on the west.
It is owned by the Nature Trust BC,
leased to the BC Ministry of Environment and
stewarded by Nature Chilliwack.
We have a monthly maintenance work party, hold planting events and field trip to this area. In 2023 we began conduction a series of bioblitzes to inventory the flora and fauna of the area.
The Eastern Fraser Valley NatureKids and Nature Chilliwack members worked together to install 3-bat maternity boxes and a barn owl box.
The Nature Trust field team recently replaced our aging swallow boxes and this team helps at public planting events. The Nature Trust is presently drawing up a new long term stewardship plan.
“Coffee Cutters” Monthly Monitoring Session of Camp Slough Wildlife Area
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Aerial View of Camp Slough Wildlife Area
Our Stewards
Installing Bat Boxes
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