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...