Due to unforseen circumstances there is a change of speaker for Sunday’s meeting.
Jack Minard, President of the Tsolum River Restoration Society, will give a one hour lecture on the value of habitat protection in light of his two decade experience in bringing back the Tsolum River. He will be our guest speaker at the Filberg Centre at 7 pm, Sunday March 18. The meeting is open to all members of the public, young and old, with an interest in the diversity of the Comox Valley environment .
Enacted in 1976 Section 35 of The Fisheries Act, which is now under serious political attack , has been instrumental in reversing decades of streamside degradation by de-regulated development and industry. Legally it was a direct extension of acts governing pollution and health. Scientifically, it was the logical outcome of work done mainly by the Yale University Forestry School and the Canadian Experimental Lakes Station of the Fisheries Research Board.
Jack Minard is the ideal person to speak out on the value of fisheries habitat protection. With more than two decades of valuable and irreplaceable experience in working to bring back a river that was killed by poorly-regulated mining practices in 1962, Jack Minard and local volunteers have managed to bring salmon back upstream the mainstem of the Tsolum by capping the mine site which is not directly connected to the main fish-bearing areas. This experience highlights the intimate ecological connection between non-fish-bearing habitat zones and the economically important zones, which proposed revisions to the Fisheries Act would open to destruction.
Comox Valley Nature is a non-profit society affiliated to BC Nature which fulfills its educational mandate by hosting monthly lectures, organizing weekly guided hikes and undertakes a variety of environmental projects . Founded in 1966, it is one of the oldest environmental societies on the North Island.
Meetings and lectures of the Comox Valley Naturalists Society are held on the third Sunday of most months at the Florence Filberg Centre, 411 Anderton, Courtenay. Meetings are open to the public, including children and youth. An entrance fee of $3.00 for the lecture is suggested for non-members. New memberships are always welcomed.
Please come out and join us for these important environmental topics.
Forthcoming lectures include: Bernice Muir: “The North Woods: Sights and Sounds of Lazo Marsh”
