Fridays at the Millard Learning Centre Every Friday, volunteers meet at the Galiano Conservancy’s office at the Millard Learning Centre at 10am before setting out to work on a variety of ecological restoration projects. Volunteering typically starts at 10am and ends at 2pm. Fridays Contact: Adam Huggins, GCA Restoration Coordinator restoration@galianoconservancy.ca / 250-539-2424 For more […]
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Make a Difference Week – Volunteer Restoration Day at Zuker Shore Access
Zuker Shore Access Restoration Day – Sunday, June 13th, 10am – 2pm Help Make a Difference in this Bramble Blitz! We are restoring native pollinator habitat by removing a swathe of invasive Himalayan blackberry, which will open up space for the restoration of a native riparian plant community. To register, please contact: Charlene […]
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Make a Difference Week – Volunteer Restoration Day in the Chrystal Creek Watershed
Chrystal Creek Watershed Restoration Day – Friday, June 11th, 10am – 2pm The Chrystal Creek at the Galiano Conservancy’s Millard Learning Centre once supported majestic, old-growth western redcedar forests and swamps, but over a century of forestry and agriculture use has left it in a degraded and diminished state. Over the next 5 […]
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Make a Difference Week – Volunteer Restoration Day in the Nuts’a’maat Forage Forest
The Nuts’a’maat Forage Forest is an ecocultural restoration project that reimagines the relationships we can have with damaged ecologies and with one another as we work together on the land. It is a shared space where we are restoring and caring for an indigenous forest ecosystem that provides us with a diversity of important foods and medicines.
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Galiano Conservancy’s Annual Battle of the Broom
The yellow blooms that pepper rocky outcrops and disturbed slopes each spring signal the advent of the Galiano Conservancy’s annual Scotch broom removal campaign. As has become tradition, interns and the summer students, led by the fearless Jenna Falk, hike up the face of Mount Sutil every year armed with loppers and harnesses, ready to […]
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A Two-Day Adventure on Galiano Island
On May 16th and 17th, students from the Middle Years Shared Ecological Education Centre (MY SEEC), from Salt Spring Island, visited our Learning Centre for one of our Two-Day Educational Adventures. This is a program where groups stay overnight at the Millard Learning Centre, and during the day take part in two of our hands-on […]
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Restoring an Island’s Ecology
“Ecological restoration is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.” The Society for Ecological Restoration International Science & Policy Working Group. 2002. Galiano Island lies in the heart of the Salish Sea and the Coastal Douglas-fir zone. This region is unique due to its natural ocean […]
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