The Sargeant Bay Society is a non-profit organization located on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. As environmental stewards, our Mission is to promote conservation of the natural habitat of Sargeant Bay and its neighbouring watersheds. We invite you to learn more about the work we are doing to protect this ecologically sensitive habitat and how you can make a difference.
Please join us by becoming a member!
Upcoming Events and Current Activities
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PARK CLOSURE NOTICE 9:00 pm Sept 24th – 6:00 pm Sept 25, 2024
The final phase of the fish ladder install will take place this week. In order to allow the heavy equipment operators to install the “Beaver Baffler”, the upper gate and berm will be closed from 9:00 pm September 24th until 6:00 pm September 25, 2024.
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BERM CLEAN UP Tuesday October 8th – 9:00 – noon
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Loon Foundation Monitoring Symposium
Tracking the true biodiversity of local marine and freshwater environments on the Sunshine Coast.
The Loon Foundation Monitoring Symposium is a gathering of local citizen scientists, professionals, volunteers, and curious community members for sharing and collaborating in the long term monitoring of coastal aquatic biodiversity on the Sunshine Coast. Community members are invited to:
- Connect with great speakers about biodiversity monitoring in and around the Salish Sea, water quality monitoring, and Marine Conservation Areas.
- Contribute to a Roundtable discussion about preserving the biodiversity of coastal waters around Pender Harbour (kalipin).
- Meet fellow citizen scientists and nature enthusiasts that actively work to support biodiversity monitoring, and find out how to get involved!
Saturday September 21
10 am – 4 pm
Pender Harbour Community Hall
Register at the door for this free, community event.
For more information about this community event, please click on the link below
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Cross-Canada Citizen Science Event September 13-16, 2024
The Sunshine Coast Natural History Society (SCNHS) and the Sargeant Bay Society (SBS) are announcing an opportunity for our members to participate in a cross-Canada citizen science event sponsored by the Canadian Wildlife Federation.
For full details and how to sign up if you are already registered on iNaturalist, go here. If you haven’t joined iNaturalist, download the app from the App store and follow the instructions here . You can then begin contributing to citizen science for the Sunshine Coast as all entries will also become part of the Biodiversity of the Sunshine Coast Biodiversity project.If there is sufficient interest in this event and you would like to learn more about iNaturalist, you are welcome to join a small group by contacting Rand Rudland (randrudland@gmail.com) .
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New Fish Ladder
We are very excited to announce that a new aluminium Fish Ladder was installed in early August.
The fish ladder was engineered to allow salmon and smaller fish to enter the ladder more easily at lower tides. The new design also incorporates a “beaver deceiver” which will allow water to flow into the ladder from a submerged pipe in Colvin lake, thereby enabling fish to pass, even when there is a beaver dam at the top of the ladder. A new level ground viewing platform was also built and installed by dedicated volunteers. We hope you take some time to check out the new fish ladder and viewing platform.
The link below will lead you to a special newsletter about the fish ladder installation. What an incredible process!!
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2024 Sargeant Bay Society Student Bursary
Congratulations to Sarah Pearson-White, the recipient of the 2024 Sargeant Bay Society Student Bursary. Enjoy your studies at the University of Victoria Sarah!
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Spring Newsletter
Please click on the link below to learn about what we’ve been up to!
We acknowledge with gratitude that we live and work on the unceded ancestral territories
of the shíshálh and Skwxwú7mesh Nations.