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Dave Davies from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans speaks to Shaw about the Courtenay River Estuary in this short community clip.
(Contact Project Watershed via projectwatershed@shaw.ca if you are interested in taking a wetlandkeepers or streamkeepers course.)
Many thanks to Shaw TV for Keeping It Living by sharing this footage.
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Biologist Michele Jones from Mimulus Biological Consultants speaks to Shaw about the Courtenay River Estuary and its wealth of biodiversity in this short community clip.
(Contact Project Watershed via projectwatershed@shaw.ca if you are interested in taking a wetlandkeepers or streamkeepers course.)
Many thanks to Shaw TV for Keeping It Living by sharing this footage.
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Comox Valley Record Published: July 08, 2010 6:00 PM
Updated: July 08, 2010 6:09 PM
Dear editor,
My earlier letter (Record, July 2) was for Ralph Shaw only.
Anyway, the point of my letter was to remind Ralph of his obligation to educate people who imagine that releasing small fish and keeping big fish is a sensible thing to do, or that it is ethical to catch salmon headed for other people’s rivers.
As local archeologists Nancy Greene and David McGee have shown, Valley rivers once produced so much fish that …
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By Lindsay Chung – Comox Valley Record
Published: July 06, 2010 3:00 PM
Courtenay councillors are joining the Stick in the Mud Club.
Council approved a sponsorship of $500 to the Project Watershed Society to sponsor the cost of carbon dating one wooden stake from the ancient fish traps in the Courtenay River estuary Monday.
Nancy Greene and Jim Gillis recently spoke to council about the multi-year mapping and research work undertaken in the past seven years on the thousands of aboriginal fish traps in the estuary and asked …
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Cash left from bash
Comox Valley Record Published: June 17, 2010 6:00 PM
Updated: June 17, 2010 6:07 PM
The Comox Valley SPCA, Comox Valley Land Trust and the Keep It Living estuary campaign benefited recently from a surplus of funds from the Ruth Masters 90th birthday party.
“We asked people to donate to cover the expenses for the event and the surplus would go to causes Ruth supports,” said organizer Pam Munroe. “Community came through generously, including the Comox District Mountaineering Club, which covered half the cost of …
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Comox Valley Record – Published: June 17, 2010 6:00 PM
Updated: June 17, 2010 6:05 PM
You’re invited to join the K’ómoks First Nation, I-Hos Gallery and Vancouver Island MusicFest for an all-ages evening celebration of National Aboriginal Day and the summer solstice.
It happens June 21 from 5:30 to 10 p.m. at the K’ómoks First Nation land on the shores of the Courtenay River estuary.
Come and meet renowned guest artist Corrine Hunt, co-designer of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic medals.
Hunt is a member of the Raven Gwa’waina clan from Ts’akis, …
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Comox Valley Record – published: June 10, 2010 6:00 PM
No, you weren’t dreaming.
Those were the Dyke Road Dancing Ducks you saw on Comox Road near the Rotary viewing stand — wiggling their bills, kicking up their web feet, shaking their tushes, and waving their red and white No Gas on the Dyke signs. It’s their way of courting support in courting season.
The Sierra Club will be back in court Monday to try to block the development of the proposed Gas and Go service station on the Dyke (Comox) Road, …
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A variety of artists came together, Keeping It Living by donating 50% of the price of their artworks, sold through the online auction, to Project Watershed for their work on restoring and preserving the Courtenay River Estuary.
This video takes a quick look at some of the highlights of the art entered into the auction…
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The media from our Estuary Gala Gathering event that took place on the 29th of May is up on the site.
Click HERE to see it.
In the meantime, here’s something to wet your appetite. Doug Cox and Todd Butler were Keeping It Living at Zocalo Cafe, getting people into the spirit of things. Enjoy.
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Zac Whyte and the Comox Valley Regional Distict are Keeping It Living.
“The Comox Valley Regional District (CVRD) has launched a new water education campaign urging residents to adopt simple measures that will assist in achieving a 27 percent reduction in consumption for the Comox Valley water system by 2014.“
We love each and every one of our rain drops, which has been falling in abundance for the past few weeks.
Give some online kudos by subscribing to Zac’s YouTube channel or visiting the CVRD’s “Water” section on their website.
