![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Music in this episode was produced by Aner Andros, Hildegard’s Ghost, the Hot Sugar Band, Ben Hamilton, and Sunfish Moon Light. This episode features Stu Crawford, Captain Gold, Lynn Lee, Dan Okamoto, Nate Spindel, Kii’iljuus Barbara Wilson, Anne Salomon, Charles Menzies, Nate Spindel, Ollie Popley, Crystal Young, Shayanna Sawyer, Hannah Freegan, Stu Crawford, Jenn Chow, and Yarrow. We will need to revisit the site again this summer to see if the kelp continues to come back and the urchins continue to stay away. Most of the kelp that returned to the site when you saw it was annual kelp, which means that it does back every fall/winter. Red urchin densities were reduced by over 90% to successfully mimic sea otter predation on urchins.Summer kelp density went from almost 0.1 plants (stipes) to more than 1 plants per metre squared, a 10-fold increase!.Summer kelp depth went from 0.5 m chart datum to about 8 m depth chart datum.Since we visited Gwaii Haanas in the Summer of 2019, the study has progressed! Here is an April 2020 update from Lynn Lee: ![]()
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