Harbours Shorekeepers
Members of the Esquimalt Lagoon Enhancement Association are participating in VEHEAP's harbour Shorekeepers. Each year, local residents map and survey the intertidal plants and animals at an established site at the mouth of Colwood Creek. The goal is to obtain standardized data over several years to monitor and assess long-term changes in the Esquimalt Lagoon intertidal community. Through volunteering in the program, community members learn the Shorekeepers survey techniques and about the intertidal communities in the lagoon, impacts to those communities and what residents can do to reduce these impacts.