Bye-Bye, Salmon Fry!
With a goodbye cheer, the chum salmon raised by the Galiano Community School were released into their new home at Grieg Creek. Using the Salmon in the Classroom curriculum, the students starting by doing a stream survey: measuring the water temperature, flow rate and pH, as well as assessing the habitat. After making sure the […]
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Herbal Harvest 2018– Spring Bloom Edition
Galiano Conservancy’s intern Yucco T attended our spring Herbal Harvest. Here are her impressions and her photographs. Note: We’ve just announced our Autumn Herbal Harvest. We hope you can join us. It was beautiful spring day. We learned that there are so many edible plants around us, and that everything has a lot of functions. We […]
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Learning and Working in Environmental Conservation: One Student Looks Back
Author: Katie Kushneryk, undergraduate student in UVic’s School of Environmental Studies Last autumn, in November 2016, I had the opportunity to participate in ES 470 Advanced Field Study: Community and Regional Coastal-Marine Conservation. As an undergraduate student at the University of Victoria pursuing a double major in Environmental Studies and Marine Biology, this field course […]
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The Future of Food Field School—Launch of a New Program
Last week, students from the Saturna Ecological Education Centre took part in our brand-new Future of Food Field School. We took a moment to ask education coordinator Reed Osler what the program is all about. (Photos by Yucco Takeda) Reed, what is important about the Future of Food field school? Well, the goal is to learn about […]
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Music for the Environmental Soul
The Musical Walkalong for Learning: An Outpouring of Art, a Gift to Students (Photos by Britt McLeod) Each August on Galiano Island, something amazing happens in the forest. Musicians, singers and performers make their way into the woods of one of Galiano’s protected natural areas… and they begin to play. As they fill the air […]
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