Land Use
Future-proof your Home with Water Management: $ave Money and Improve Resiliency by Harnessing Your Water Resources – Video
| Climate Coach, Events, Fire and drought, Food and Agriculture, Forests, Freshwater, Land Use, Native Plant Stewardship, Past Events, Resources, Videos, Webinar Video
Future-proof your Home with Water Management: $ave Money and Improve Resiliency by Harnessing Your Water Resources. Watch this informative webinar that will revolutionize the way you manage water on your…
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Fire Risk Reduction in the Coastal Douglas-fir Biogeoclimatic Zone- Video
| CARL, Events, Fire and drought, Forests, Freshwater, Land Use, Past Events, Resources, Videos
Transition Salt Spring hosted a workshop on February 27th, 2023 Fire Risk Reduction in the Coastal Douglas-fir Biogeoclimatic Zone:A Practitioner’s Workshop The event brought together over seventy participants, including regional…
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Reducing Fire and Drought Risk with Erik Piikkila
| CARL, Fire and drought, Forests, Freshwater, Land Use, Past Events
Reducing Fire and Drought Risk: Protecting Our Drinking Water and Homes from Wildfires We are delighted to present two presentations by local Forest Ecologist Erik Piikkila from Yellow Point Ecological…
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Maxwell Creek Watershed Field Files
| CARL, Fire and drought, Forests, Freshwater, Land Use, News
The Maxwell Creek Watershed Project (AKA the CARL Project) is a collaborative, multidisciplinary forest restoration project based on Salt Spring Island under the leadership of Transition Salt Spring with the…
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North American book release for Rosemary Morrow’s new book ‘Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture
| Food and Agriculture, Land Use, Past Events, Resources, Videos
“The road to restoration is putting back more than we take. The restorative ethic is inherent in permaculture and is basic to all natural and designed systems. This is the…
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Beyond Climate Change – A Case study looking at our Vulnerable Forests
| CARL, Ecological Research Network, Fire and drought, Forests, Freshwater, Land Use, Past Events, Resources, Videos
Beyond Climate Change – A Case study looking at our Vulnerable Forests Dr Ruth Waldick presents at UNBC on our Mt Maxwell Adaptation Lab Project on Nov. 11, 2022. Watch…
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Maxwell Creek Watershed Project Field Files Part 2: Developing surveying methodologies
| CARL, Ecological Research Network, Fire and drought, Forests, Freshwater, Land Use, News
Exerpt from: https://www.raincoast.org/2022/08/maxwell-creek-watershed-project-field-files-part-2-developing-surveying-methodologies/ Andrew Simon shares about the methodologies used in the Maxwell Creek Watershed project. By Shauna Doll, Gulf Islands Forest Project Coordinator August 5, 2022 The project takes…
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BC Releases Climate Preparedness and Adaptation Strategy
| Built Infrastructure, Fire and drought, Food and Agriculture, Forests, Freshwater, Land Use, Resources, Transportation
The strategy strengthens BC’s capacity to anticipate, prepare for and respond to the changing climate. This includes sudden events like wildfires, floods and heatwaves as well as changes that happen…
Read More Mt Maxwell Project
| CARL, Fire and drought, Forests, Freshwater, Land Use
Climate Adaptation Research Lab (formerly The Mt Maxwell Watershed Project) In 2021 Transition Salt Spring secured $100,000 in federal funding and other support to initiate this groundbreaking research around fire…
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