
By OB35
A possible outcome could be a very positive one with having lots of animals come back like cutthroat trout, frogs, more birds and the creek being in a very healthy condition. Which will be a great outcome

By OB35
Colquitz creek has salmon. Craigflower creek has salmon. Millstream creek also has salmon. What's different in bowker creek then these other creeks is that they are clean enough that salmon actually have resources to live off of.

By OB35
We need a healthy watershed to have healthy animals, with a healthy watershed we will obtain healthy animals so that requires good water quality. We need to make sure we have healthy keystone species that will stay for some time otherwise are ecosystem will always be changing.

By OB35
The pollution levels need to drop quite a bit for the fish to get a healthy living area. The levels of rain that builds up needs a draining system to make sure that it won't flood over in any way so the fish won't have the risk of being wiped out by a flood.

By OB35
We can restore river otters back in a couple of ways i found this article online about a river otter restoration in New Mexico. It would take a lot of efffort and work with changing the waer quality and making sure that they have a wide variety of prey to feed on and a variety of aquatic plants for the otters to eat.

By OB25
Once we have tackled the necessary conditions for salmon to live in Bowker Creek, keeping them here is the next challenge. To preserve the run, a great deal of education must go into the community, and the emphasis on not littering. There must also be occasional clean-ups, to block any dams that have formed and may block the path of the salmon.

By OB34
Bowker Creek current water quality: Temperature: (average) 12 degrees celsius. Dissolved oxygen (average) 8.25 ppm. pH: (average) 6.5. Phosphate: (average) 0.25 mg/l. Nitrate: (average) 0.37 ppm

By OB34
Temperature: bellow 12 degrees celsius. Dissolved oxygen: greater than 9 ppm. pH: between 7 and 8. Phosphate: below 0.25 mg/l. Nitrate: below 1 mg/l.