Restoring salmon spawning habitat.
Improving community flood protection.
Thinking globally
Acting locally
We are a local initiative inspired by a global movement seeking regenerative, nature-based solutions for a harmonious coexistence with water. We’re working to restore ecosystems, revitalize natural processes, and foster sustainable and regenerative relationships between people and water.
Chute Creek
Stewardship Society
Restoring in-stream and riparian ecosystem biodiversity employing nature-based solutions to regenerate salmon spawning habitat, while concurrently enhancing flood protection and community safety.
We are a ‘micro-example’ of a ‘macro-issue’.
Lower Chute Creek
Located in the beautiful southern Okanagan Lake valley of British Columbia, on the traditional, unceded and ancestral territories of the Syilx First Nations, the Chute Creek Stewardship Society successfully restored lower Chute Creek where it flows across the alluvial fan into Okanagan Lake. Chute Creek is part of the Columbia River watershed, which ultimately drains into the northern Pacific Ocean. Today, we are dedicated to the creek’s long-term stewardship while sharing the knowledge, relationships, and lessons gained through the project to inspire community-led restoration elsewhere.
Tour the completed Chute Creek restoration/reconstruction
Thanks to a generous gift from Jeremy Rempel of
RISING ACTION PICTURES
(June, 2026)
The Restoration of Chute Creek is COMPLETE!!
THANK YOU!!
(April 15th, 2026)
Supporters & Media
We are genuinely grateful for all the regional, provincial and national organizations, and individuals, who are generously supporting our commitment to restoring and stewarding lower Chute Creek.
We’re also grateful for those in the media who have taken an interest in our journey.
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
— Rachel Louise Carson