One of North Vancouver's leading conservationists has won an achievement award named after deceased former North Shore Rescue leader Tim Jones.

Shaun Hollingsworth received the honour last night at Centennial Theatre at the opening of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival.

It was presented by Curtis Jones, son of the former paramedic who saved many lives before dying of a heart attack in 2014.

Hollingsworth is president of the Seymour Salmonid Society and he has helped save migrating salmon impacted by a devastating rock slide.

The problem originated when 50,000 cubic metres of debris and boulders flowed into the Seymour River on December 7, 2014.

The society has worked with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Metro Vancouver, the District of North Vancouver, and the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations to capture salmon and transport them to the Seymour River Hatchery. (More information on these efforts is available here.) North Shore Rescue was called on early in the process to offer assistance.

Hollingsworth is Canadian cochair of the Skagit Environment Endowment Commission and is on the board of the B.C. Conservation Society. He's past president of the North Shore Fish and Game Club.