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  • Building Wetlands in the Somenos Marsh: Treating Storm Water and Creating Habitat

    Building Wetlands in the Somenos Marsh: Treating Storm Water and Creating Habitat

    This article was submitted by Elizabeth Bailey, Program Coordinator for the Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society.Elizabeth attended the 2014 Wetlands Institute. Along with a team of experts and community supporters, the Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society (SMWS) has restored a wetland pond in the Somenos Marsh to treat storm water and create wildlife habitat. It has been…

  • Building a Schoolyard Wetland: Kinnaird Elementary, Castlegar

    Building a Schoolyard Wetland: Kinnaird Elementary, Castlegar

    The BCWF’s Wetlands Education Program headed to the West Kootenays to build a schoolyard wetland at Kinnaird Elementary in Castlegar. With the help of the Grade 7 students, we constructed a liner wetland over two sunny days last week! There were several steps involved in building a liner wetland: The Kinnaird Elementary students and teachers…

  • The Troubled Purple Thistle Wetland

    The Troubled Purple Thistle Wetland

    A warm and sunny Sunday afternoon tends to bring out the gardener in many of us. What happens when there is no access to a green yard, a farm field or a sunny patio for planters? The trend toward community garden space and urban agricultural interventions has exploded, and Vancouver seems to be peaking when…