![]() As one arm reaches farther east to Port Moody, B.C., the other stretches north, to the mouth of the Indian River (xʔəl̓ilwətaʔɬ). Some 15 kilometres inland from the first narrows, it splits. Wildfire smoke blanketed the inlet in October as the Tsleil-Waututh Nation field crew set out to collect clams for testing.īurrard Inlet separates the Fraser Lowlands, now home to Vancouver and surrounding cities, from the mountains of the North Shore. So, they mask up, push off from the dock at the Deep Cove marina and head northeast, towards the hazy wall of mountains. The samples they collect will decide whether Tsleil-Waututh Nation can harvest clams from the inlet and - even just once this year - eat them without the threat of illness. Fuelled by an unusually dry fall, fires are raging to the south, cloaking a vast area in an eerie veil of smoke.Īny other day the three-person crew of Haley Crozier, Travis George and Charlie George, may have decided to stay indoors, but the community is relying on them. But the concern today isn’t so much the virus, as the degraded air quality. It’s October 2022, two and half years into the pandemic, so it’s not unusual to see people wearing masks. The air is thick with wildfire smoke as a Tsleil-Waututh Nation field crew readies their boat for a trip into the north arm of səl̓ilw̓ət, the waterway settlers have come to call Burrard Inlet. ![]()
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