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Please join us at our Fall Member Meeting
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Open Source
Water Data Hub Dialogue:
Towards a Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework
November 29-30, 2017
Invermere, BC
More information and outcomes
here.
Convened by Living Lakes Canada, Columbia Basin Water Stewardship Network, Selkirk College.
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Burton Flats Photo: Jason Jobin, BCWF |
Community Engagement in Wetland Habitat Restoration in the Arrow Lakes
CBWN is happy to report that the new project to enhance community engagement in wetlands restoration is now underway. Doug Switzer from Nakusp has been hired as Community Engagement Coordinator and, as the job title suggests, he will be working with groups and individuals to encourage community members and groups to become more involved in issues related to wetland restoration and preservation.
The Arrow Lakes Environment Stewardship Society and the Slocan Wetlands Assessment and Monitoring Program are partners with CBWN in this project.
For more information visit our website
here.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of WWF-Canada and Loblaw Companies Limited.
If you are interested in working with other groups in your region on a collaborative watershed stewardship project, CBWN would like to help you! Email us at cbwn.coordinator (@) gmail. com to discuss.
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Living Lakes Canada, NALMS 2016, LakeKeeper Workshop, Photo by Heather Leschied |
Nominate
someone today for the
CBWN Volunteer AWARD
S
The CBWN wants to celebrate member achievements in citizen science, watershed education and habitat stewardship.
Do you have a hero in your watershed?
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CBWN Members, Mapping and Data
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CBWN/SGRC Mapping Program
Update
Kalyn May is behind the CBWN Summer Mapping Program. Read about her experience as a Coop student in the Selkirk College GIS program and working with several CBWN member groups on their mapping projects.
More information and contacts
here.
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Do you love the Columbia Wetlands, birds, and being outside? If so, participating in the Columbia Wetlands Waterbird Survey (CWWS) may be for you!
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Aquatic Invasive Species News
Volunteer Opportunities - Regional Invasive Committee's
Reporting Invasive Species
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Small Farmers Can Access Assistance with a Range of Issues Including Water
(Columbia Basin & Kootenay Boundary) - Agricultural producers in the region now have access to a new service offering technical support and expertise to help them succeed. Kootenay and Boundary Farm Advisors is a free service that is launching this summer.
More information and contacts
here.
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Professional Reliance in BC
A review of Professional Reliance has been announced by the new government in British Columbia (see our website for links to the news story and reports).
Professional reliance is a regulatory principle that is used in several resource management domains in British Columbia, including forestry and mining. The Ministry of Environment has promised to review this principle and its application throughout the government. This is likely to have important impacts on watershed stewardship on Crown Land throughout the Province.
Briefly, the principle of professional reliance is that the government will rely on the judgment of qualified professionals to assess complex situations on Crown lands and ensure that management objectives are met. This means that experts hired by proponents and licensees are making expert judgments on the balance of values, the level of acceptable risk.
We at CBWN are tracking this issue, collecting resources and information from various perspectives. At our Fall Meeting, Sept 23 in Nelson, we hope to be able to host a dialogue that helps all members to understand what 'professional reliance' is, and how the professional reliance review might affect us.
For more information and resources please go visit our
website.
If you have information and resources to share, please email us at cbwn.coordinator@gmail.com
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Funding Opportunities
Sept 8, Real Estate Foundation of BC Grants - Freshwater
October 3 ,
Columbia Basin Trust - Environment
Grants
Ongoing,
Kootenay Co-op Community Grants Program
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Events
September 13/14
, NELSON - Living Lakes Canada Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABiN) Field Practicum. More information here.
September 20-23
, NELSON - Different by Design- Exploring Innovation for Rural Prosperity Conference, Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation. More information
September 23, NELSON - Columbia Basin Watershed Network Fall Member Meeting. More information here.
September 25, Online, 11am Pacific - Fresh Ideas Webinar - Wetlands, From Science to Action, Canadian Freshwater Alliance. More information here.
September 29 - 30, CRANBROOK - Fall Gathering and AGM, KCP. More information here.
September 29 - October 1, BLUE LAKE CENTRE - Inquiring Voices Sustainability Symposium, CBEEN. More information
here.
October 13-15, KIMBERLEY - CBT, Col. Chris Hadfield Keynote Speaker for Columbia Basin
Symposium. For more information and register
here.
November 29-30, FAIRMONT HOT SPRINGS - Open Source Data Hub Dialogue: Towards a Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework, Living Lakes Canada, with partners. More information coming soon.
Have an event coming up? Let us post your next event on our website and newsletter, please
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Job Postings
Nature Conservancy of Canada - Program Director, Canadian Rocky Mountains Eco-Region, BC. More information
here.
Send us your news updates, events or job postings!
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