Nanaimo & Area Land Trust Society

Land acquisition & protection programs: mt. Benson acquisition phase 2; nanaimo river properties; harewood plains; hamilton marsh cable bay port alberni property and yellowpoint property. Land management: on going implementation of the martha warde property management and parnassian woods management primarily to remove invasive species and maintain access for education and restoration. Land stewardship: presentations to city of nanaimo mayor and council on critical habitat and biodiversity areas in nanaimo; water quality monitoring on holden creek departure creek walley creek cat stream chase river cottle creek blood creek beaver creek richards creek bech creek and nanaimo river; participation on the nanaimo river watershed roundtable; bat surveys; salamander surveys; turtle surveys and nest protection; pollinator surveys mapping and habitat restoration; watershed restoration on walley creek cat stream; departure creek; cottle creek; cutthroat trout habitat survey. Education and outreach: seasonal events such as rivers day world water day world turtle day brant geese festival and earth day festival; stream keeper workshops and speaker presentations; guided habitat and plant walks; attendance at community events with presentations and information displays; cowichan climate resiliency conference water stewardship presentation on the theme of blue ecology - the interweaving of indigenous and western watershed stewardship science; presentation on urban... Education contunied... Habitat restoration and protection at the planning institue of bc conference; social media sharing of information; school water stewards - curriculum based water stewardship program in 13 elementary schools western painted turtle (wpt) monitoring involving citizen scientists locating areas where wpt are present and protecting their nesting sites; mid-island stewardship caucus meeting of stewardship groups in the mid-island area looking for ways to support each other's st