Turning to another aspect, there are so many of you who have spoken to this, but perhaps the question should go to ZoAnn Morten, as someone who is working with so many volunteer streamkeepers.
What lessons did we learn from the November floods? This could be taken into a number of other areas—as my friend Mr. Zimmer and other colleagues from British Columbia have seen—but it was volunteers who showed up in Abbotsford to sandbag, to protect a pump station and to stop it from being overwhelmed. What could we do better to harness the extraordinary energies of volunteers? They went out and rescued salmon from farm fields, and made critical decisions based on their own knowledge, but they were operating, essentially, outside of a multi-jurisdictional response to a major flood event.