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WaterShade Year 3 – Focus on Priority Assets
July 25, 2025 - The WaterShade project will improve thermal refuges conservation with a progressive approach. Based on work completed in previous phases, this phase is focussed on the implementation of targeted actions to...

Opening up breeding habitat by breaching beaver dams
July 25, 2025 - Dams on the Patapédia, Upsalquitch and Kedgwick sections of Restigouche River will be identified with the use of arial surveys and computerized tools. Field crews will be deployed to open...

WATERSHADE Phase 2
February 4, 2025 - Description: This project consists in implementing actions resulting from the implementation plan developed in Phase 1 of the Watershade project. The thermal refuges policy and the decision tree will be...

Opening up breeding habitat by breaching beaver dams
February 4, 2025 - Description: Using arial surveys and computerized tools, the Conseil de Gestion du Bassin Versant de la Rivière Restigouche will locate the dams on the Patapédia, Upsalquitch and Kedgwick sections of...

WATERSHADE Phase 1: Development of a policy and an implementation plan
August 3, 2023 - This project consists in implementing a restoration plan for thermal refuges on the Restigouche River watershed. In the first phase, a policy will be codeveloped for thermal refuges, namely: premices,...

Reproductive breaching of beaver dams and logjam dismantling
August 3, 2023 - With aerial flyover and computerized tools, dams were localized on the Patapédia, Upsalquitch and Kedgwick sections of Restigouche River. Field teams will be deployed to open the habitat a few...