Angela Kroning
Community Advisor: Jim Wilson
View Region 9 Roundtables

Angela has been a resident of the Sunshine Coast, located in the territories of the   Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, shíshálh, Tla'amin, Klahoose and Homalco First Nations, for over 40 years. She has always been involved in education and conservation, of the special place she has been privileged to call home, as a volunteer and in her career.

Partnering with Dianne Sanford, they trained streamkeepers as per the Pacific Streamkeepers Federation protocol for twenty years on both the lower and upper Sunshine Coast before retiring in 2022.

Currently Angela is an active volunteer with (and is occasionally contracted by) the Sunshine Coast Conservation Association (SCCA) as a Marine & Freshwater Liaison. In this position she has been their ongoing representative at the Ocean Protection Plan I & II Forums for at least six years.  As a streamkeeper for the SCCA, she monitors water quality, conducts spawner surveys and traps fry on Ch’kw’elhp/Gibson and Dakota Creeks. She is a member of the Ch’kw’elhp/Gibson Creek Restoration Working Group. This multi-partner project co-led by the Squamish Nation and SCCA aims to replace a fish impassable culvert and restore habitat in the lower reaches of the creek.

She also volunteers as streamkeeper in her local Chaster Creek watershed assisting members of the Sunshine Coast Streamkeepers Society in assessing water quality, conducting spawner counts and fry trapping. Using this data, she recently collaborated with the Elphinstone Community Association and the SCCA in preparing submissions in response to the BC Timber Sales pilot Watershed Risk Management Framework (Mt Elphinstone South Watershed Assessment Phase 1 and 2 Report, July 2023)

She continues to sample for forage fish eggs (surf smelt and Pacific sand lance) with the Sunshine Coast Friends of Forage Fish - an endeavour of fifteen plus years. Also ongoing is assisting with mapping and transplanting of eelgrass in various locations from Gibsons to Sechelt Inlet.

Angela recognizes that, especially in response to climate change, that conservation and restoration of wild salmon requires all of us, across all jurisdictions, to work together to protect and restore habitat and she remains firmly committed to doing just that.

Dianne Sanford- alternate

Dianne Sanford is a Director with the Seagrass Conservation Working group and has  been mapping and monitoring eelgrass since 2001.  Working with SeaChange Marine Conservation Society, she has coordinated various shoreline and subtidal restoration projects on the Sunshine Coast.

She is sole proprietor of Moonstone Enterprises, since its inception in 1996, and provides Environmental Education and environmental monitoring services, working closely with the Sunshine Coast School District and the many camps on the Sunshine Coast, as well as the local governments.  Marine education is her specialty, and she has developed and delivered many beach programs.

 Many children on the Sunshine Coast know her through the Salmonids in the Classroom program, as she held the Education Coordinator contract for Fisheries and Oceans Canada for many years, in which salmon are raised from eyed eggs to fry. 

 She is a Streamkeepers Trainer for the Pacific Streamkeepers Federation, a past director of NRAC, (Natural Resources Advisory Committee, a group advising the Sunshine Coast Regional District,) and alternate director on the SEHAB committee (Salmonid Enhancement and Habitat Advisory Board).

 Dianne is the coordinator for Sunshine Coast Friends of Forage Fish, coordinating volunteer sampling for sand lance and surf smelt over the past ten years at various Sunshine Coast beaches.

Several local beaches have proven positive for surf smelt and sand lance spawn.