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The Stoney Creek Environment Committee collaborates with streamkeepers for several creeks in Burnaby to improve watershed management.

Byrne Creek

In April of 1999 the Byrne Creek Streamkeepers formally began as an addition to the Byrne Creek committee of the Vancouver Angling and Game Association. The group cares for Byrne Creek in Southeast Burnaby and its tributaries.

Our main activities include water quality monitoring through sampling, testing and invertebrate surveys, spawning salmon counts and most important, education of watershed residents about the creeks in their neighbourhood and the connection between the storm drains and the streams. We are also working with the city of Burnaby toward improving stormwater management practices.

The Stream of Dreams project - environmental education combined with community art - which began by creating a fence mural at the corner of Edmonds and Kingsway, in the heart of Byrne Creek's headwaters, has expanded beyond Byrne Creek Watershed to include more than 25 lower mainland schools and numerous community groups across BC. Visit the web site of the newly formed Stream of Dreams Murals Society to learn more about the program. Byrne Creek also has its own website: Click here.

Byrne Creek Streamkeepers meet on the second Thursday of each month through fall winter and spring at Clinton Elementary School at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, contact:
Joan Carne
Address: 6392 Neville St., Burnaby, B.C., V5E 1A6
Phone: 604-433-5125
e-mail: Joan Carne

Eagle Creek

This creek rises on the west side of Burnaby Mountain and flows through housing developments to Burnaby Lake. Over the past years, the Eagle Creek volunteers have organised the following activities:
  • Live fish trapping to establish the presence of juvenile salmonids
  • GIS mapping of Eagle Creek
  • 24,000 coho fry released in the past 3 years
  • Girl Guide education on creek health
  • Birds, Butterflies, and Bees event at Burnaby Lake
  • Removal of two bridges removed due to garbage concerns at Greystone housing complex
  • Major creek cleanup at Broadway and Lake City
  • Ongoing: Creek monitoring and bug sampling.
A series of rearing ponds have been approved for the area between Broadway and Lougheed Highway.

The group meets Sundays at 10:00 am in front of the IGA, Greystone Village near the Burnaby Golf Course.

For more information, contact:
Janice Froese
Address: 7755 Government Road, Burnaby, B.C.
Phone: (604) 420-0038
e-mail: Janice Froese

Sapperton Fish and Game Club

The Sapperton Fish and Game Club is a family-oriented organization that has been actively involved in streamkeeping in the Brunette River watershed since 1969.
Our continuous efforts to restore salmon and salmon habitat resulted in the return of coho salmon to the Brunette River in 1984 after a 30-year absence. Our club has continued its salmon, trout and steelhead restoration activities to the present with the completion of major projects, such as a fishway over the Cariboo Dam, a salmon hatchery, and several instream structures over the last ten years.
While preservation and restoration of the Brunette River is our major ongoing community project, we also sponsor outdoor activities for the whole family, such as camping, fishing, boating and picnicking.
The Sapperton Fish and game Club members meet regularly on the first Wednesday evening of each month at the Centennial Community Centre (beside the Canada Games Pool) at Sixth Avenue and Cumberland Street in New Westminster.

For more information, contact:
Elmer Rudolph
Address: PO Box 40099 Royal City Postal Outlet, New Westminster, B.C., V3M 6J7
Phone: (604) 521-3346

Picture of Elmer Rudolph

One for the hatchery - Elmer Rudolph holding spawner.