for the Salish Strait of Georgia is between 150 and 200 days, with most of the precipitation falling in the winter months. Moderate snowfalls occur from December to February, with July and August being the hot and dry months. Raw Natural Resources Of The Land: In the moist and temperate forests of British Columbia, limitless stands of cedar supplied the Coast Salish people with raw materials. The western red cedar was used for canoes, houses, clothing, and tools. The Salish harvested salmon and coastal shellfish as their nutritional mainstay, and supplemented their diet with deer, elk, moose, bear, migratory birds, medicinal plants, roots, herbs, and berries. Herring were abundant everywhere. Halibut generally spawn in twenty to two hundred fathoms of salt water and are found in the southern parts of the strait. Eulachon (or candlefish) ran in enormous quantities in the Fraser River, as well as in Bute Inlet. Sturgeons were also caught in the Fraser River, they usually entered the river system around the end of April, following the eulachon run. North Vancouver surveyors, 1893. Other fish such as flounder, dogfish, cultus cod, red cod, and rock cod, etc., are found in the Salish territories. Within a short period after colonization, the pristine traditional hunting and fishing grounds in the Coast salish territories were destroyed by the combined forces of logging, mining, saw mills, fish canneries, urban sprawl and hydro dams. Much of Vancouver and Victoria has been built on the top of vast shell middens and other ancient