Tom Rutherford is a self-described “fish hugger:” And by extension, if you’re a fish hugger, then you’re a water hugger. On a sweltering summer morning, the air tinged blue with wildfire smoke haze, this retired Fisheries and Oceans Canada biologist and Cowichan Watershed board member bashes through a tangle of riparian vegetation to where the Koksilah River joins one of the main stems of the Cowichan River that brackets the sprawling estuary. Nearby a great blue heron perches regally on […]

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