Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood is a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh journalist living and writing in North Vancouver. In 2022 she won the Canadian Association of Journalists' Emerging Indigenous Journalist award. She writes stories about Indigenous Rights, the arts, sustainability and social justice. She has worked with The Tyee, Media Indigena, CBC, CiTR 101.9 FM, and National Observer. She earned her Master of Journalism degree at the University of British Columbia. Her best days are spent wandering through the North Shore mountains.
Stories by Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
After the fire: the long road to recovery
13 min. readA B.C. Indigenous group has been working to bring its territory back to life and...
Want to save B.C. salmon? Bring back Indigenous fishing systems, study says
Traditional technologies, harvesting practices and management systems could bring endangered populations back from the brink,...
Public money ‘helped fund extinction’ of B.C. caribou through mining subsidies: report
The destructive impacts of three coal mines on critical caribou habitat were justified by promised...
‘A lost run’: logging and climate change decimate steelhead in B.C. river
When zero fish showed up for a winter count in the Gold River on Vancouver...
The last free river of Manitoba
The Seal River is Manitoba’s only major waterway that hasn’t been dammed — and five...
‘I wanted to show them I wasn’t extinct’
The Canadian government declared them extinct 64 years ago. These living, breathing Sinixt people beg...
Blue carbon: the climate change solution you’ve probably never heard of
Coastal ecosystems like salt marshes sequester millions of tonnes of carbon, but have been whittled...
Seabridge Gold asks B.C. for more time to begin KSM mine construction, citing COVID-19
If granted, the extension would give Seabridge Gold 12 years to achieve a ‘substantial start’...
Four reasons 2020 is set to see the lowest Fraser River sockeye salmon return on record
Even a low-ball prediction for the number of sockeye returning to the Fraser River was...
