Fifty-two thousand square kilometres.
UNBC professors Philip OWens, left, Margot Parkes, Ellen Petticrew and Stephen Dery will be taking part in various parts of research on the Nechako River basin, thanks to funding announced last week. Allan WISHART/Free Press
Those are some of the numbers involved in a series of research projects in the Nechako River basin, to be undertaken by the Integrated Water Research Group at UNBC.
“It’s an area about the size of Switzerland,” is how Dr. Ellen Petticrew describes the area the research projects will cover. “It covers all the tributaries of the Nechako draining into the river until it meets the Fraser.”