Rearguard Falls in June 2019. The photograph shows the river landscape; no migrating salmon are visible.Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich) · CC BY 4.0Photo details
Photographed: 2019-06
Original title: 2019-06 Rearguard Falls (02).jpg
A short walk to Rearguard Falls opens onto a much longer journey: Chinook salmon returning from the Pacific to the upper Fraser River.
White sturgeon at the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Abernathy Fish Technology Center in Washington, April 2024. A still from Typhanie Shepherd’s USFWS underwater video, not a fish photographed in the Nechako River.Typhanie Shepherd / USFWS Pacific · Public domainPhoto details
Photographed: Taken on 17 April 2024, 11:45:00
Original title: White Sturgeon at Abernathy Fish Technology Center (53661481504).jpg
Beneath the Nechako is a conservation story measured in decades: long-lived white sturgeon, missing young fish and the work to restore a riverbed.
The Fraser and Nechako confluence during unusually low water in spring 2024, photographed by Andrew Kurjata. This records a particular water level, not the usual appearance of the rivers.Andrew Kurjata · CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Photo details
Photographed: 2024-04-03
Original title: Some photos from where a confluence of rivers should be I took last week for a story you may have seen on CBC
At Prince George’s river confluence, a changing line in the water can reveal sediment, seasons and the slow work of two rivers mixing.
Berg Lake beneath Mount Robson. This older photograph illustrates a glacier-fed mountain lake; glacier extent and shoreline conditions have changed since it was taken.Airj1012 at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0Photo details
Photographed: 2005
Original title: Berg Lake - Mount Robson.JPG
Turquoise, clear blue, green or almost black: the colour of a northern BC lake tells a story about light, water and what its watershed carries.
Fallen wood along the Berg Lake Trail, photographed in August 2011. This illustrates forest structure without identifying a particular decay organism.Sébastien Launay · CC BY 2.0Photo details
Photographed: 2011-08-19 19:18:22
Original title: Forest along Berg Lake Trail.jpg
A fallen tree can become shelter, a seedbed and a slow-moving store of carbon. Look closer at the wood beside a northern BC forest trail.
The Nechako River Bird Sanctuary in Vanderhoof, photographed in August 2012. This is a habitat view outside the spring migration season.irmiller · CC BY-NC 2.0Photo details
Photographed: 2012-08-19
Original title: Nechako River Bird Sanctuary
River islands, migrating geese and the small details of a stopover make Vanderhoof’s Nechako River a rewarding place to watch spring unfold.
Trumpeter swans in British Columbia in 2019. This species photograph illustrates the birds discussed here; the source does not identify Fraser Lake as the location.Jakub Fryš · CC BY-SA 4.0Photo details
Photographed: 2019-03-28 18:05:19
Original title: Trumpeter swans in winter.jpg
Fraser Lake’s winter swans offer a quieter northern BC outing, shaped by open water, feeding places and conditions that change through the season.