Join stewardship and streamkeeping groups from across the Comox Valley on Saturday September 20 from 10 a.m. till 3 p.m. in Puntledge Park for Family Watershed Day!
This annual event celebrates the incredible work of local organizations, highlights stewardship and restoration projects, and helps build connections to the waterways of our community. From the Vancouver Island mountains and Comox Lake, through the rivers, creeks and wetlands of the Comox Valley, and down to the shores of the Salish Sea, water connects us all.
Activities will include guided walks of Puntledge Park, demonstrations and information from local groups, and kids’ activities including face painting, book readings, watercolour painting, music and a family scavenger hunt. Attendees will learn about restoration initiatives, land protection projects, research and monitoring programs, salmon enhancement, source-to-tap drinking water education, the science of watershed protection, and cool volunteer opportunities.
This year’s event also features a day-long participatory art project facilitated by Juliana Bedoya of “Plants as Teachers”, all about how we are Connected by Water.
For a detailed schedule of activities, visit the facebook event here.
Participating organizations include Project Watershed, Cumberland Community Forest Society, Beaufort Watershed Stewards, Comox Valley Regional District (Watershed Protection), Comox Valley Naturalists Society, Millard Piercy Watershed Stewards, Tsolum River Restoration Society, Comox Valley Land Trust and Conservation Partnership, Courtenay Youth Climate Corps BC, Morrison Creek Streamkeepers, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and Little River Enhancement Society.
Family Watershed Day aims to build connections between residents of all ages and the special community organizations who care for our watershed in so many ways. Pack a picnic and stay for the day!
