shuswapnativeplants
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Grindrod, British Columbia, Canada |
| Introduction | I moved here 20 years ago to get away from the cold winters and limited growing season in Prince George. I wanted to have a nice garden and begin an orchard along the line of permaculture as described by Bill Mollison and Masanobu Fukuoka. Now, even after all this time these are still my goals but, unfortunately, I remain a long way away from any orchard and am still struggling to get a garden. Local environmental/conservation issues have taken a lot of my time. I did not go looking for these but, when they presented themselves, I did not ignore them either. All of this was volunteer work, sometimes with others and sometimes alone. All of these issues are related to trying to get protection for water. I made a list which is below. I am surprised when I read this. I never imagined when I moved here there would be so many problems and that it would take so much of my time. Maybe this is why I am still a long way off from having a decent garden and a permaculture food forest. All these issues began just a few months after I moved here when my neighbour said, “You have to write a letter. Salmon Arm is trying to take our water.” |
| Interests | nature, native plants |
| Favorite movies | ISSUES WHEN, Planned dam in the Larch Hills above the Mara Meadows Ecological Reserve and over top of many ski trails. Four hearings with Water Management and Salmon Arm., http://www.eab.gov.bc.ca/water/98wat10a.pdf Request for costs report, http://www.eab.gov.bc.ca/water/98wat10b.htm, Initiated restoration of Violet Creek from illegal diversion., 1995 -1998 Boating restrictions for the Shuswap River, applications and appeal to Canadian Coast Guard., 1994 -1995 The first BC Rivers’s Day on the Shuswap River and assistance with future ones – river inhabitant survey, raffle for BC Heritage River posters, posters and display table of water and wildlife information., September 1994 Incineration plan for all the old latex paint at North Enderby Timber mill. Complaint to Ombudsman about public notification of test burn., 1994? Regulations needed for steep slope logging on private land, presentation to Regional District, article in newspaper and letter to editor., 1995 summer Land and Resource Management Plan for Shuswap Okanagan table member for conservation. Violet Creek Provincial Park established., 1995 - 1999 Complaint to the Forest Practices Board for protection of water from logging next to the Mara Meadows Ecological Reserve. , Full report http://www.fpb.gov.bc.ca/IRC96_Approval_of_Harvesting_near_Mara_Meadows_Ecological_Reserve_near_Salmon_Arm.pdf summary , http://www.fpb.gov.bc.ca/publications.aspx?id=2956&terms=mara+meadows, 1996 Fish rescue on Violet Creek with help from student volunteers. 1998 Stream restoration on Violet Creek, planting and new culvert., 1998 Logging road moved that went through the closed Mara Meadows Ecological Reserve. http://www.ecoreserves.bc.ca/newsletters/LOG0504.pdf , 1998? Animal parts (possible mad cow contaminated meat “waste) composting and incineration plan proposed by Ministry of Agriculture. 2009 - ongoing |