As published on page 27 of the Newsletter of the Canadian Unitarian Council Vol. 53 • No. 2 • Summer 2011
Stewardship and sustainability are ‘ecobuzz’ words that are
rapidly becoming mainstream as Canadians think more about
fresh water resources. Thank goodness!
We are accustomed to hearing that one-fifth of the world’s
fresh water sources are located within our boundaries, but less
comfortable with the fact that only 2.6% is in southern Canada
where most of us live. We know that rivers were the highways
for voyageurs and explorers that resulted in a vast country of
2,000,000 lakes, bordered …
Paul Horgen (left) of the Comox Valley Project Watershed Society recieives a cheque for $1,500 from Creekside Commons Community Services Society (represented by left to right: Pam Munroe, Tim Crossin and Don Munroe) for the Eel Grass project to sequester carbon in the Comox Estuary. This project while removing carbon from the atmosphere also restores our estuary and povides local employment. And, Project Watershed Society as a registered charity can issue income tax receipts for donations. http://projectwatershed.ca/ For more information on the Blue Carbon initiative by Project Watershed, contact p.horgen@utoronto.ca.
Comox …
Students from UBC and volunteers from Project Watershedbraved the dark mudflats of the Courtenay River estuary last night in order to gather sediment samples and eelgrass shoots for a UBC carbon sequestration research project. The low tide was at 10:30 pm, so Michele Jones led the group out into the dark to a lower intertidal area. Sediments were gathered from two different depths using hand tools . In addition, 500 eelgrass shoots were harvested.
It’s a dirty job, but we got to do it!
Submitted by Celina on Wed, 2011-11-30 15:26
Keeping It Living is guided by the phrase “return of abundance,” which comes from the name “Comox” (“K’ómoks”), which means “land of plenty or abundance.” With a mission to bring about the return of abundance, the Keeping It Living project is dedicated to the “preservation of marshes, sloughs, mud flats, gravel beds, shore grasses, shrubs, forest, streams, rivers, and watersheds that provide nutrients to nourish estuary life.”
Estuaries are the meeting places of rivers and oceans, where stream flows meet ocean tides. As ever-changing transition …
Published: Tuesday, November 22, 2011
A series of environmental initiatives has resulted in this year’s ‘Courtenay River Estuary Keeping it Living Award’ being awarded to the City of Courtenay by the Comox Valley Project Watershed Society. The award, an original painting of the estuary by local artist Bev Byerley, is given annually to an organization in the Comox Valley in recognition of environmental leadership provided in protecting and restoring the estuary. The recipient keeps the painting to display for one year.
© Comox Valley Echo 2011
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