A few days ago, I had the immense pleasure of sitting down for a chat with Mary Haig-Brown. She’s a bit of a local hero when it comes to restoring degraded streams in the Greater Victoria region, although Mary would be the first to downplay her contribution and instead point to the effort carried out […]
Author: Rick Searle
World Wetland Day Feb. 2, 2021
Today is World Weltands Day. All over the planet, wetlands are being degraded and destroyed faster than the Amazon rainforest. Here in Canada, Ducks Unlimited estimates that our country has lost as much as 70% of it’s wetlands. In parts of the prairies, that percentage is as high as 90%. Like the prairies, BC’s coastal wetlands […]
Restoring Salmon to the Upper Reaches of Millstream Creek
Volunteer Putting Native Plants in the Ground “There has never been a more urgent need to restore damaged ecosystems than now.” So proclaims the United Nations as a preamble to declaring 2021 – 2030 the Decade of Ecological Restoration. The purpose of the declaration is to serve as “a rallying call for the protection and […]