Morrison Creek Streamkeepers

As you've probably noticed, we've had some problems with the website and volunteer time lately. Hopefully that is over and we will try to keep you updated on the happenings around the creek. As a relative newcomer, the chum run was incredible this year! I have never seen so many…

Word reached Morrison Creek headquarters on Friday that the evil warlord Castor (nicknamed Bucky the Beaver) had taken hostile action in Nelly Creek. This encroachement took the form of totally damming a main culvert, choking it off completely and thereby blocking the legitimate aspirations of the Pink Salmon people for…

One of the little and elusive Morrison Creek Lamprey. For us old folks 17 cm equals about 7 in. Photo by K Inman Dr Dick Beamish and his team were studying the Morrison Creek Lamprey, otherwise known as Lampetra richarsoni var. marifuga (just marifuga to its friends), in Morrison Creek…

  Merlin on a wire. Photo by K Clouston I have been trying to get a good picture of these pesky little falcons for months now and finally succeeded.  Several months ago I saw one or two, sometimes three sitting at the very top of one of the large fir…

Builders hard at work creating nest boxes. Photo by Ian Moul Since the vegetation damaged by the salmon enhancement work we did two years ago has still not completely recovered we decided that our activities this year would be easier on the instream residents of Morrison Creek.  As mentioned in a…