The Upper Columbia River and adjacent Columbia Wetlands are one of the largest wetland complexes in British Columbia and one of the largest floodplain systems in North America. The wetlands encompass 26,000 hectares and are one of the few remaining intact portions of the Pacific Flyway for migrating birds. The natural levees make the Columbia Wetlands incredibly unique, separating several hundred sub-basins with differing amounts of marsh, open water, riparian shrubs and floodplain forest. It is a large landscape with overlapping values of high biodiversity, ecosystem services, and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

In partnership with Living Lakes Canada, a member of the Columbia Wetlands Stewardship Partners (CWSP). The project seeks to increase open water habitat in Columbia Valley wetlands through the installation of a series of beaver dam analogs (BDAs), to conduct water quality and ecosystem biodiversity monitoring, with hopes to conserve the exceptional ecological and cultural values of the Columbia Wetlands system.