Grant Amount: $150,000
Intake Year: 2026
Region: South Coast
Project Theme: Monitoring & Assessment and Land & Water-based Learning, Knowledge Sharing
Ehattesaht/Chinehkint First Nation (ECFN) is leading this project to install three strategically located weather stations across its Territory to provide real-time, high-quality weather data. These weather stations will join a previously installed station, creating a network which will be the highest resolution watershed monitoring program in Canada. Additionally, three existing industry partner stations will be incorporated including those from hydro and aquaculture facilities. Data from this network will create a window to weather conditions in critical hunting and fishing grounds, enable the real time monitoring of extreme heat events, allow for data driven decision making with industry partners, and start the baseline monitoring critical to data sovereignty and will be shared on ECFN’s in-house created online portal. This project is aligned with the Nation’s principle of Hišukišcawak —“everything is connected; everything is one”—and supports informed, data-driven decision-making around water, climate, and natural resource management.
“This is an excellent investment, one that will have long-term benefits for all of us who live, work and play in the ECFN Territory.”
– Chief Simon John