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Caring for our environment
The Environment Club and a few student volunteers made an end-of-Earth Week trek to Portland Island in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve to support Parks Canada staff with an on-going habitat restoration project. Plenty of broom was pulled to give the native plant species a fighting chance to make a comeback. Our hatchery has also been a focus for the E-Club. Fin-clipping and fry releasing into Hartl Creek and Shawnigan Creek are marking the ending of a successful year of incubation and rearing of thousands of coho fry.
Students are involved during the curricular day as well and recently, the Environmental Science 11 classes have been engaged in a forestry unit. Forest measurement skills have been developed and put to work on the LTER (long term ecological research) project to investigate the impacts of selective logging on a host of features in our research forest.
– Scott Noble
– Scott Noble
We acknowledge with respect the Coast Salish Peoples on whose traditional lands and waterways we live, learn and play. We are grateful for the opportunity to share in this beautiful region, and we aspire to healthy and respectful relationships with those who have lived on and cared for these lands for millennia.
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