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Andrea and Grant Gustafson (from left), Leah Dickens and Karen Irvine take a hike on a glacier in the Eureka Bowl — a part of Eureka Peak — a popular hiking destination for outdoor enthusiasts east of Williams Lake. It took the group three hours to get to the peak. The weather this time of year is perfect to take in some of the natural surroundings before beautiful scenes like this are covered entirely in snow.
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Two months after the Mount Polley Mine tailings breach, staff at the Dr. Max Blouw Quesnel River Research Centre are ready to share research findings at an open house in Likely this Saturday, Oct. 4. “We started Aug. 4, the day of,” said research centre biologist Sam Albers. A “whole host” of people from
University of Northern British Columbia staff and students, to Department of Fisheries and Oceans staff and researchers from the University of British Columbia have been involved, Albers confirmed. They have been collecting water, sediment, and biological samples from the Quesnel Lake watershed and looking at the movement of water and sediment plumes in Quesnel Lake. “I am very excited,” he said.
“It’s all very preliminary but we will talk about what we’ve done and places we believe the research should go moving forward.” Everyone is welcome to join the staff to discuss the findings and plans for the future, he added. There will be a research presentation at 10 a.m. followed by refreshments and a barbecue at noon. The research centre is located
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