Events

Join us for a morning of hands-on water quality monitoring across the S-amunu/Somenos Watershed! We’ll visit Somenos, Bings, Averill, and Richards Creeks, carpooling between sites to collect samples and record data. It’s a great opportunity to learn about key water quality parameters and how our creeks are affected by development and climate change. If you...

Spring is the time to see Nature Conservancy Canada's Cowichan Garry Oak Preserve ecosystem return to life!  Come out and do a bit of gentle maintenance while appreciating some of the flowers and birds under the leafing Oaks. Maybe you'll get some ideas for native plants in your own garden! Please rsvp by email if...

Help us pull the invasive aquatic weed parrot’s feather from Somenos Creek! Every week in the summer we will be in Somenos Creek cutting and removing parrot’s feather from Somenos Creek. Join us for a morning in the SMWS boat on Somenos Creek, spot some wildlife, learn about the impacts of invasive plants on aquatic...

Opening reception for 'Art of the Six Mountains,' a collaboration of the Cowichan Valley Arts Council and sixmountains.ca The multi-media exhibition, highlighting BC’s rare coastal Douglas-fir forest, continues through June 29. More information: https://cowichanvalleyartscouncil.ca/event/secrets-of-six-mountains-group-exhibition/

When the forest breathes: A conversation with Suzanne Simard From the Sierra Club of BC: With her book Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest. Now, with her new book When the Forest Breathes, she uncovers the ways that nature’s...

Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society has invited Jared Qwustenuxun Williams to speak at their AGM in the Quamichan Room at the Cowichan Community Centre. 

Spring is the time to see Nature Conservancy Canada's Cowichan Garry Oak Preserve ecosystem return to life!  Come out and do a bit of gentle maintenance while appreciating some of the flowers and birds under the leafing Oaks. Maybe you'll get some ideas for native plants in your own garden! Please rsvp by email if...

Help us pull the invasive aquatic weed parrot’s feather from Somenos Creek! Every week in the summer we will be in Somenos Creek cutting and removing parrot’s feather from Somenos Creek. Join us for a morning in the SMWS boat on Somenos Creek, spot some wildlife, learn about the impacts of invasive plants on aquatic...

Andy MacKinnon, the guru of BC plants, will provide an entertaining and informative talk entitled: “Rare Ground: Inside B.C.’s Most Endangered Forest” as part of the month-long exhibition, ‘Art of the Six Mountains,’  a collaboration of the Cowichan Valley Arts Council and sixmountains.ca. MacKinnon served as forest research ecologist with the provincial government for three...

Place - meet at Kinsmen hut corner of Methuen and 6th for a briefing and go down to the BC Hydro lot below the parking lot. Wear sturdy clothes suited to the weather and the work What to bring - water and refreshments and weeding tools and weed whackers We will have a supply of gloves and hand...

Memento Mori is Latin for "Remember that you die." We are forming a Not-For-Profit Group to discuss, look at and create options for Natural and Green Burial. Please join us to hear our mission and our vision for our newly forming organization and to dialogue with other Death Positive people. Some of us would rather...

Place - meet at Kinsmen hut corner of Methuen and 6th for a briefing and go down to the BC Hydro lot below the parking lot. Wear sturdy clothes suited to the weather and the work What to bring - water and refreshments and weeding tools and weed whackers We will have a supply of gloves and hand...

Join us for a morning of hands-on water quality monitoring across the S-amunu/Somenos Watershed! We’ll visit Somenos, Bings, Averill, and Richards Creeks, carpooling between sites to collect samples and record data. It’s a great opportunity to learn about key water quality parameters and how our creeks are affected by development and climate change. If you...

CSRT meetings on the third Tuesday of the month are both in-person and on zoom. Everyone welcome! 9:00-10:45 round-the-table update from each person about topics related to the Cowichan River by their organizations. But you can just listen, or speak as an individual too if you like.  11:00-12:00 speaker presentation. Please feel free to come...

Grab a picnc dinner and join us for a chat about our past and future direction. There is still time to become a member, allowing you to vote - and there is still time to join the board and help us move forwrd.  Mostly it's a chance for everyone to meet in-person before we all...

Spring is the time to see Nature Conservancy Canada's Cowichan Garry Oak Preserve ecosystem return to life!  Come out and do a bit of gentle maintenance while appreciating some of the flowers and birds under the leafing Oaks. Maybe you'll get some ideas for native plants in your own garden! Please rsvp by email if...

Help us pull the invasive aquatic weed parrot’s feather from Somenos Creek! Every week in the summer we will be in Somenos Creek cutting and removing parrot’s feather from Somenos Creek. Join us for a morning in the SMWS boat on Somenos Creek, spot some wildlife, learn about the impacts of invasive plants on aquatic...

This is a focused public presentation on the New Forest Act – a legislative proposal to replace British Columbia’s current forestry system. The session will clearly explain: What is actually happening in BC’s forests, why the current system is no longer working, the structural changes needed to fix it, hHow the New Forest Act framework...

Take a journey through time with stories of pre-contact village life and the impact of colonization. Since 2006 Elders here have been sharing their stories, their history and their healing following the values of nuts'amaat shqaluwun, people working together with one heart, one mind, one spirit. They remind us that the longest journey is from...

Join us for a ox-eye daisy removal event at the Somenos Garry Oak Protected Area. Learn about the importance of Garry oak ecosystem and their role in conserving biodiversity from our president Paul Gowland who will be leading the event. Tools, gloves and drinks will be provided.

Join us for a Community Celebration of Environmental and Climate Initiatives -  a public-facing event designed to celebrate, engage, and learn from the dedicated individuals and organizations driving climate initiatives and environmental stewardship across the Cowichan Valley! The overarching theme of the day is "understanding and exchange" and will be co-hosted by Our Cowichan Communities...