Having the blood of Ernest Harrop himself flowing through her veins, Jennifer Dehnel has a long-time connection with the Harrop area. Like a storybook romance, Jenn’s husband Kurt grew up on the opposite side of Kootenay Lake, leading to their eventual meeting in their early teens. Being in the area for most of their lives …
The Purple Thistle Centre is a youth-run community centre based out of Vancouver that has several green projects on the go. They run an urban farm, have recently planted a food forest, and have three bee hives. Last summer, they set out to restore a small wetland which was being used as an illegal dump …
Continue reading Radical Wetlanders: Purple Thistle Group Restores Urban Wetland
One great thing about the 2012 Sea-to-Sky Wetlands Institute workshop, hosted on July 9 to 15, is that it was made more accessible due to the generous support of our financial partners (listed at the end of the article). This meant that those unable to attend in previous years, due to financial barriers (ex. Students, recent …
Continue reading Planning Somenos Marsh: Major Proposal Developed by Wetlands Institute Participant
You can’t say that volunteering for the BCWF’s Wetland Education Program doesn’t lead to great opportunities. In July one of our summer volunteer interns, Mike Botic, while volunteering at the Wetlands Institute (WI), was invited to the Quamichan Watershed (Vancouver Island) to witness the construction of several wetlands by Kai Rietzel, a WI participant. Kai …
Continue reading Wetland Institute Participant Helps Construct 7 Wetlands
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