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The biologists studied the beach sediments and identified potential spawning habitat for herring, sand lance and other important forage fish. “We also inventoried the shoreline’s ecological communities of vegetation,” says Warren Fleenor, RPBio, of Current Environmental, the firm hired to perform the environmental assessment. “We identified rare communities and used those to help inform the revised project design.” Of particular concern was the dune wildrye–beach pea community, which is red- listed (endangered or threatened) in BC. The biologists noted remnants of the community in the high intertidal and splash zones of the shoreline throughout the project area. Having biologists on the team was essential for determining the best approaches for erosion protection that considered environmental values as well as infrastructure values. “They tell me what’s important biologically,” McLean says, “and I tell them what the driving forces are and what we might do, and together we come up with a solution that is most appropriate for that environment.” For example, the shoreline’s dunes form a setting that is both geologically and environmentally unique, with fine sand deposits. McLean says “the challenge

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