UPCOMING EVENTS
General Meetings - First Tuesday of every month 7 pm - 9 pm
2023
April 13 7-9pm Thursday– Forestry Forum Indigenous Perspectives – Mill Bay Hall
April 21 4-7pm Friday - MBNS Fun Fair
April 22 10am - 2pm Saturday – Earth Day
SLREC- Rotary Community Clean up
May 22 World Biodiversity Day
May 27 9am - 2pm Saturday Info station at St Johns Academy Fun Fair
June - Island Return It Charity Of The Month
June 05 World Environment Day
CERCA Bat Symposium at VIU - 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
June 30th Friday– 2pm-5pm
West Shawnigan Lake Provincial Park Q’ushin’tul Ancestors Walk Rest Stop:
Walking Together on the Creation Story Pathway from T’sou-ke to Swuq’us
July 06- CERCA Bat Symposium at Providence Farm - 7:00 p.m. to 9:0 p.m.
August - Fundraising Raffle Begins
Sept - Indigenous Plant Medicine Walk - tba
Sept 23 BC Rivers Day
Sept - Forestry Tour with Mosaic - tba
October 13 - CVRD Local Area Planning 4-7pm at Shawnigan Community Centre
October 14 - CVRD Local Area Planning 11am-2pm at at SLCC
January 1st 2024 - Raffle draw
* event details to be announced when confirmed
2023
April 13 7-9pm Thursday– Forestry Forum Indigenous Perspectives – Mill Bay Hall
April 21 4-7pm Friday - MBNS Fun Fair
April 22 10am - 2pm Saturday – Earth Day
SLREC- Rotary Community Clean up
May 22 World Biodiversity Day
May 27 9am - 2pm Saturday Info station at St Johns Academy Fun Fair
June - Island Return It Charity Of The Month
June 05 World Environment Day
CERCA Bat Symposium at VIU - 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
June 30th Friday– 2pm-5pm
West Shawnigan Lake Provincial Park Q’ushin’tul Ancestors Walk Rest Stop:
Walking Together on the Creation Story Pathway from T’sou-ke to Swuq’us
July 06- CERCA Bat Symposium at Providence Farm - 7:00 p.m. to 9:0 p.m.
August - Fundraising Raffle Begins
Sept - Indigenous Plant Medicine Walk - tba
Sept 23 BC Rivers Day
Sept - Forestry Tour with Mosaic - tba
October 13 - CVRD Local Area Planning 4-7pm at Shawnigan Community Centre
October 14 - CVRD Local Area Planning 11am-2pm at at SLCC
January 1st 2024 - Raffle draw
* event details to be announced when confirmed
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Past Public Information Events
The Shawnigan Basin Society hosts a series of Shawnigan Watershed Information events. Past topics have included:
March 15th 2022 - Resilient Coast for Salmon with Kelly Loch - Virtually Zoom Meeting ID: 882 0265 8287 Passcode: 336082
February 15th 2022: Community Outreach Discussion - Vic Neufeld, BC Coalitions Institute
January 18th 2022: Coho Salmon Project with Ken Gray
October 30th 2021: Shawnigan Basin Society's Fundraiser at Cherry Point Estate Winery - Locally inspired, forest to foreshore, gourmet dinner, art centered silent auction and a perfect opportunity to enjoy some unique & award-winning local wines
September 11 & 18 2021 : Medicinal plant identification, traditional storytelling and medicine making with
Cowichan elder Della Rice Sylvester.
May 8th, 15th, 22nd 2021 : Koksilah Ancient Forest Reserve Tour - Guided Forest Walk & Talk with Ed Wiebe
November 5th 2020: Mosaic Virtual Tour! Presented by Molly Hudson - Director Sustainability; David Beleznay, Manager – Hydrology & Terrain; Pam Jorgenson – Land Use Forester
October 31th 2020: Biochar Burn with Shelagh Bell-Irving
October 20th 2020: Flower Power! Presented by Genevieve R. Singleton, B.Sc., Biology; M.Ed.,
Counselling Psych., Nature Interpreter, Biologist, Polster Environmental Services,
September 15th 2020: Gardening with Native plants presented by Dorothee Kieser, Master Gardener
September 4th & 18th 2020: Medicinal plant identification, traditional storytelling and medicine making with Cowichan elder Della Rice Sylvester.
May 2020: Shawnigan Basin Society Information Sessions with Directors Terry Lineham and Bernie Juurlink.
March 17th 2020: Cougars and Wolves and Bears... Oh my! Dr. Mira Ziolo
March-August 2020: Postponed due to COVID -19 health advisories
February 18 2020: DEVELOPING AN ECOLOGICAL LEGACY IN THE SHAWINIGAN LAKE WATERSHED
January 21 2020: Water Quality Studies In the Cowichan Valley by Kate Miller, Manager of Environmental Services
December 17 2019: THE WELLSMART PROGRAM
December 3 2019: WHO,WHAT,WHERE,WHEN,WHY & HOW
November 19 2019: Malahat Highway Bypass, Our surrounding area.
October 17 2018 : Has the time come for Municipal incorporation? Pros, cons, boundaries, costs and how does incorporation actually get established.
October 14 2018: Watershed Forest Tour...see below for details.
October 2018: Whole watershed planning. How to take advantage of the new water sustainability act to develop a sustainable watershed management plan. Incorporating Shawnigan is discussed in Saving Water: Stewardship of the Shawnigan Community Watershed in Chapter Eleven.
September 26 2018: A 50 Year Perspective on the watershed forest, how forest companies are planning for the future in the shadow of climate change and how we also could look 50 years ahead for all of our community interests
September 19 2018: Foreshore Restoration, and how to make your shoreline natural again
September 12 2018: Milfoil invasion in the lake, and what we can do about it.
Additionally, the book Saving Water: Stewardship of the Shawnigan Community Watershed by Bruce Fraser, Kelly Musselwhite, Brock Musselwhite and Chase Musselwhite has been published
and is now available through the Shawnigan Lake Museum for $20 per copy.
All proceeds will be donated to the Museum to help with their expansion project.
"Three generations speak about the state of the Shawnigan watershed, the need for a heightened sense of environmental awareness and a wide-ranging approach to ecological governance of the community. Topics include ecological principles, lake and watershed issues, planning for the future and municipal incorporation. The book contains both technical and deeply personal material but it is the comments from Brock at twelve and Chase at ten that give a stunningly clear perspective on what really matters." (Bruce Fraser)
Look 50 Years into the Future with the Basin Society
Watershed Forest Tour 2017
The greatest influence on the security of our watershed is the ecological health of the upland forest. Much of that forest is the private domain of two major forest companies, Timber West and Island Timberlands, both of which continue to harvest their land when the trees have matured to commercial value. In the last decade or so, the watershed forests have been logged, replanted, and now await the next rotation some 50 years into the future. To make sure that there will be a healthy crop of trees for that next rotation the companies will tend their plantations dealing with threats of drought, fire, disease and pests. Their healthy forest is our secure watershed. Their 50 years of forest management is our 50 years of life and community.
What do we have to look forward to in Shawnigan in the next 50 years? How old will you be? How old will your children be? How many people will live in Shawnigan? What will the village look like? What will have happened to our lake? How will the same issues that concern a forest company over the next 50 years influence our lives – climate change, population growth, water demand, economic development, social licence for industry? Most often we only think in terms of next year, next pay cheque, next vacation, next school year or next election, let alone time two generations away.
Timber West and Island Timberlands rouse to the challenge of illustrating their 50-year perspective on the forest with residents of Shawnigan. They demonstrated what it takes to deal with rotation length planning and challenged us to demonstrate what it takes to plan for our society over the same span. This took start with a forestry field trip into the watershed highlands on October 14' 2017. The companies illustrated on the ground what the long-term perspective looks like to foresters. The Basin Society will follow up with a dialogue with the participants to explore what the long-term perspective looks like to Shawnigan citizens.
What do we have to look forward to in Shawnigan in the next 50 years? How old will you be? How old will your children be? How many people will live in Shawnigan? What will the village look like? What will have happened to our lake? How will the same issues that concern a forest company over the next 50 years influence our lives – climate change, population growth, water demand, economic development, social licence for industry? Most often we only think in terms of next year, next pay cheque, next vacation, next school year or next election, let alone time two generations away.
Timber West and Island Timberlands rouse to the challenge of illustrating their 50-year perspective on the forest with residents of Shawnigan. They demonstrated what it takes to deal with rotation length planning and challenged us to demonstrate what it takes to plan for our society over the same span. This took start with a forestry field trip into the watershed highlands on October 14' 2017. The companies illustrated on the ground what the long-term perspective looks like to foresters. The Basin Society will follow up with a dialogue with the participants to explore what the long-term perspective looks like to Shawnigan citizens.
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