Quarterly Report to BC Nature - February 2010
Annual General Meeting Minutes - January 9, 2010
Declaration Calling for the Removal of Open Net Cage Salmon Farms from the Wild Salmon Narrows
Castanet.net News - Off-road vehicles must be registered
by Contributed - Story: 50728 Nov 10, 2009. Rules for off-road vehicle registration and licensing, helmet use, youth safety and environmental measures will be implemented over the next two years under a new off-road vehicle (ORV) management framework, announced Tourism, Culture and the Arts Minister Kevin Krueger today...
Quarterly Report to BC Nature - November 2009
President's Report to BC Nature Fall General Meeting - August 2009
Letter in Support of BC Library Funding
The Lillooet Naturalist Society sent a letter to Honourable Margaret Macdiarmid, Minister of Education and Minister responsible for Early Learning and Literacy, in support of our library and to protest the proposed financial cutbacks. (PDF copy of the letter). There is also an online petition for individuals at www.stopbclibrarycuts.ca
Quarterly Report to BC Nature - August 2009
LNS Update - June 2009
BC Nature Annual General Meeting - Resolution on Fish Farms
A resolution on Fish Farms from the Lillooet Naturalist Society to the BC NATURE (Federation of BC Naturalists) Annual General Meeting on May 2, 2009 passed. (PDF copy of the resolution). For more information regarding this, Ruby Berry will be at the Salmon in the Canyon festival this Saturday, August 22nd. Ruby will have an information booth - she's with the Georgia Strait Alliance and this is her area of expertise.
Powerhouse Foreshore Restoration Project News
Are you building, renovating, making a road or expanding your gardens this spring? If you think you have some native plants, grasses or small shrubs that may be impacted, the Lillooet Naturalist Society will come and dig them up to use on local restoration projects. See Poster for contact details.
Powerhouse Foreshore Restoration Project 2008
A copy of the Powerhouse Foreshore Restoration Plan is available at the Lillooet Library. This manual will be updated on a regular basis to include additional researched information. Data based on monitoring reports will also be included and provide guidance to future work.
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Hiking Guide
Our hiking guide, Canyon to Alpine, features 25 local walks and hikes plus information about natural history.
Only a few more are available for sale locally!
The Fate of the Fraser
Exploring BC's future by journeying the length of its mightiest river. First in a series. By Colleen Kimmett. Published in The Tyee.
Fin Donnelly and Sustainable Living Leadership Program (SLLP) participants arriving in Lillooet. Photo: Ian Routley. Larger photo.
Save Our Boreal Birds!
Billions of birds need Canada’s Boreal Forest to breed and raise their young. But unchecked industrial development is carving up the Boreal. The birds can’t speak for themselves -- it’s up to us. Save our Boreal Birds - Sign the Petition Today!
Letter to the Adventure Tourism Manager
The Lillooet Naturalist Society sent a letter to the Adventure Tourism Manager (Ministry of Tourism, Sport and the Arts) registering concerns and objection to the application for heli-skiing, heli-hiking and heli-fishing by Coast Range Heliskiing Ltd. (PDF copy of the letter)
Position Statement Review
You can sign the CASSE (Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy) position statement on economic growth at http://www.steadystate.org/PositiononEG.html
Prosperity without Growth?
NEW - A major report published 30 March by the UK government’s sustainable development adviser argues that the pursuit of economic growth is one of the root causes of the current financial crisis, as well contributing to a growing environmental crisis and undermining well-being in developed countries.
Proposal to Nature Canada
This article is written as an information preamble to a proposal that Nature Canada adopt a position statement on the fundamental conflict between economic growth and biodiversity conservation following those of a number of ecological and economic societies around the world.
Catalog Project
The Lillooet Naturalist Society has undertaken a project to catalog all species of animals, plants and insects in this area.
As part of this process, we are pleased to include a list of butterflies that are found in this region.
We would be happy to receive other lists of plants, plants or insects, which we could add to the catalog.