TLC for the Willow Creek Conservation Area
Drop by one of our upcoming information sessions!
Do you care about the Willow Creek Conservation Area - Greenways does!
If you regularly visit the beautiful greenspace that is the heart of Willow Point, you may have run into our Urban Watershed Restoration crew and our volunteers. Everyone has pitched in to sustainably restore impacted parts of the natural space to ensure it'll be there to enjoy for generations to come!
DROP IN at one of our upcoming three 'restoration info sessions' in October and find out more about Greenways' restoration efforts. No registration required! Please dress for the weather, as we'll be running the sessions rain or shine, bring your mask & curiosity. In case of severe weather, we will post a cancellation update on our Facebook events page here. You can find more details about the events in this great article the CR Mirror published last week, on September 20: "Campbell River conservationists to hold info session on Willow Creek restoration".
WHEN |
_ TOMORROW: Saturday, October 2, 10am until 2pm
_ Wednesday, October 6, 10am until 12/noon & 5.30-7.30pm
MEETING POINT | Martin Rd entrance
*PARKING IS VERY LIMITED!* Please try and use alternative transportation.
'GOOD CREEK NEIGHBOUR' guide | Do you love visiting the creek in your neighbourhood? Browse our GCNG brochure to become the best neighbour our creeks can wish for!
If you have any questions ahead of time, please don't hesitate to contact the project lead, our Habitat Management Coordinator, Camille Andrews, at camille@greenwaystrust.ca.
See you there!
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Annual Fundraiser for Greenways!
Get your ticket now!
Support our salmon enhancement programming and enter to win a prize: Our wonderful sponsors from the Brown's Bay Resort are doing it again, the second year in a row they are organizing a Non-Chum Derby to raise funds for Greenways. We are beyond grateful and so honoured!
Please help them to support us and get your ticket [$50] here. The resort will keep adding prizes to their Facebook page - follow them here.
SO BEAUTIFUL & SO CLOSE BY
Visit the Brown's Bay website here if you are interested in learning more about the resort!
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Haig-Brown Festival & Lecture
Sunday was marvellous
Despite some leaky clouds (and a leaky canopy), we had the best time at the 2021 Haig-Brown Festival! There's no better way to celebrate River's Day than at our favourite Campbell RIVER location, the Haig-Brown House, and alongside our amazing community partners. Families loved our watershed model demos, and Chuck’s nature walk along the Haig-Brown Kingfisher Creek as well as Callie and Melody's 'Rivers & Restoration' talk were a hit! We were even finally a big enough Greenways group for the #DifferentTogether Pledge photo - an initiative run by the Immigrant Welcome Centre [see pledge below].
The cherry on top of this fantastic line-up of events was the Haig-Brown Lecture w/ Dr. Suzanne Simard who presented her book 'Finding the Mother Tree' followed by a panel discussion with some wonderful local environmental stewards: Cynthia Bendickson, Sandra Milligan, Gina Thomas and Cory Cliffe.
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#SalmonSpawnWatch
Become a citizen scientist and share your salmon observations online!
A message from the Watershed Watch Salmon Society: "You can help us build a better picture of how the salmon returns are faring across the province. If you head out to see salmon spawning in your area, use your phone to take photos or make a short video and post on it social media with the date and location and the hashtag #salmonspawnwatch. Include any observations you make while you are there. If there are no salmon returning, and you expect them to, that is an important observation too!"
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Be Part of the Change
Get Involved
If you are interested in volunteering with Greenways, please e-mail us at volunteer@greenwaystrust.ca or give us a call 250-287-3785. We are all working from our homes until further notice. Volunteers are needed for:
- Greenways Conservation Team
- Fruit Tree Project
- Streamkeeping [Nunns, Woods, Simms, Willow, Haig-Brown Kingfisher & Detweiler Creek]
- Mountain View Community Food Forest
- Campbell River Hospital Food Forest
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LOOP DAY 2021
TOMORROW: Sat, Oct 2
Put on something green & hop, walk, stroll, roll or dance along the Greenways Loop between 10am and noon on October 2: Greenways will be running a 'station' at the Trask Road entrance to the Beaver Lodge - we're bringing our watershed table, stories & snacks! The wonderful and hardworking 'Loop Group' has shared event details on their 'Greenways Loop' FB page. Check out the locations of the other six stations and loop by counter-clockwise tomorrow!
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Project Update
Streamkeepers - Simms Creek Restoration
What's new with our Stream'Team?
In early September, Greenways’ Urban Watershed Restoration Crew worked alongside Simms Creek Streamkeepers on a habitat enhancement project, which involved reducing a few large debris jams, cleaning up garbage, and pulling out invasive plants. With the help from our dedicated volunteers and streamkeepers, we managed to remove 780 kg of garbage and invasive species from Simms Creek! The streamkeepers and the crew also installed conifer brush bundles at three locations in the stream where there was poor vegetation cover. The intention of the brush bundles was to provide salmon and other fish species with shelter and aquatic invertebrates as food sources.
A WIN WIN WIN
These activities will improve habitat conditions for fish and wildlife, while reducing flood risks on neighbouring properties.
MORE DETAILS | CR Mirror article & video, Sep 9, "Campbell River creek gets TLC from local ecology champions"
THANK YOU!
The Simms Creek restoration projects would not have been possible without the generous funding from The Healthy Watersheds Initiative (a program delivered by the Real Estate Foundation of BC and Watersheds BC, with financial support from the Province of British Columbia as part of its $10-billion COVID-19 response)!
We also want to extent our thanks to:
- The Campbell River Community Foundation for supporting Streamkeeper engagement!
- The Campbell River Salmon Foundation for funding the Simms Creek Habitat Assessment that informed most of the restoration projects accomplished this year!
- The DFO Community Advisor Stacey Larsen and Simms Creek Streamkeepers for sharing their expertise and knowledge!
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Come on Board!
The Greenways Board is currently recruiting new members: If you’d like to contribute to Greenways at a strategic level, please come along to a Board meeting to see what’s involved! We meet the second Wednesday of every month from 7-9pm. We are currently meeting virtually, but are aiming to start hybrid virtual/in-person meetings soon. If you are interested contact us at info@greenwaystrust.ca!
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Greenways in the Media
Visit our website and check out the NEWS section. You will find Greenways' recent media coverage listed. |
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