Industry Updates
This page highlights the latest updates, initiatives, and upcoming activities of the Alberta Watercourse Crossing Collaborative (AWC3) as it works to restore fish passage and improve habitat quality across Alberta. Stay informed on knowledge-sharing initiatives, education and training opportunities, regulatory support efforts, and evidence-based research that advance effective and collaborative watercourse crossing restoration.
Beavers---Canada's national animal---are nature's original engineers. Their impressive dam-building and tree-felling abilities can dramatically shape landscapes, creating wetlands that store water, improve water quality, and support biodiversity.
The Watercourse Crossing Remediation Grant Program administered by Alberta Forestry and Parks (AFP) provides grants to municipalities for the inspection, assessment, design and construction of watercourse crossings to improve fish passage and reduce se...
The Alberta Watercourse Crossing Inventory (ABWCI) App is a tool to help document stream crossings and support the prioritization and remediation of habitat for Alberta's native fish species, including Arctic grayling, Athabasca rainbow trout...
This directive outlines a strategy for collaborative watershed-based approach to inspections and remediation of non-compliant crossings. It is a regulatory strategy to identify and commence remedial watercourse crossing work to provide fish passage...