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SARAH DALZIEL
Boundary Creek Times Contributor
Conservation and reparation of habitat for the speckled dace was the focus of a meeting of the Kettle River Watershed Management team on Monday, Feb. 16. About 20 people attended, from Westbridge and Beaverdell through to Grand Forks. Speckled dace are in the minnow family, and as such are at the bottom of the fish food chain, and provide food for rainbow trout. They like clean gravels, and fast-flowing water both shallow and deep. The conservation plan is focused on three stretches of river, one on each of the three watershed river: the Kettle, West Kettle and Granby. Each stretch currently under consideration for conservation is over two kilometres long and contains all the types of habitat necessary for speckled dace survival. This includes overwintering and over summering zones, riffles, clean gravels and spawning areas. The emphasis of the meeting was on river reparation, both for the purpose of conserving speckled dace, and in general of preserving the river itself as good fish habitat. The first priority of reparation is reducing the inflow of erosion and silt to the river. Erosion has a cumulative impact on the river, with forestry, agriculture, range use, roads, and urban development all contributing, in some measure, to erosion. The speckled dace require clean gravels, not embedded gravels. Embedded gravel is somewhat necessary for other species, like the native fresh water mussel. Reparation is largely done through building up stream banks to prevent erosion, and the gradual building up of gravel bars to narrow, deepen and speed up the river. While bank reparation is fairly straightforward, prevent future erosion and mitigate current erosion swiftly. River reparation is more complex, and the impact of actions must be thoroughly studied before the reparation is actually undertaken. Building up stream banks is most often done through planting native species. Usually willow, cottonwood or red osier dogwood, roots will firm the soil, slow the water, and encourage silt and gravel to remain on the bank instead of entering the river system. When using riparian methods on gravel bars, willow is usually • See SPECKLELD DACE page A11
Bronze for BCSS Maddie Baia of Boundary Central Secondary (BCSS) senior girls basketball team goes for the shot against Roxanne Sorensen of Trail during the team’s game Saturday night at the Castlegar tournament as teammate Daniela Bergendahl (#11) looks on. BCSS won the game 42-37 to finish third out of eight teams. BCSS also beat Grand Forks 38-34. The team’s only loss came against L.V. Rogers of Nelson, the eventual tournament winner. Craig Lindsay photo