by alex morrison | Dec 6, 2022 | Newsletter, Outreach, Reconcilliation, TEK
by Judy Wyper, PWPA Member & Volunteer Each Friday in September, I joined about 20 others including PWPA Director Taryn Skalbania, for cultural sensitivity sessions with Pamela and Grouse Barnes. They are Westbank First Nation elders and knowledge-keepers,...
by alex morrison | Dec 6, 2022 | Newsletter, Outreach, Watershed Wisdom
this years’ theme: “Bridging Indigenous and Western approaches to Knowledge, Science and Management” PWPA members Taryn Skalbaia, Judy Wyper, and Alex Morrison attended this three day event in Osoyoos, to learn more about the management of water in the...
by alex morrison | Aug 1, 2022 | Events, Outreach, Peachland
June 14 2022 Quail’s Gate Winery was the location of an unveiling ceremony for a sculpture, commemorating the creation of a special Okanagan film about Okanagan Lake and the European settlement of the valley . The Lake / n’-ha-a-itk is a documentary film...
by alex morrison | Apr 12, 2022 | Events, Newsletter, Outreach, Peachland
Who Speaks for the Watershed? UBC Okanagan Researchers Study the Peachland Creek Watershed for answers. “Whose water is it, anyhow? Who owns Peachland’s water? Who’s responsible for Peachland’s water, who should be? What say do local indigenous have in this...
by alex morrison | Apr 1, 2022 | Advocacy, Events, In the news, Letters to the Editor, Outreach, Peachland, Watershed Watch
Published in the Peachland View, April 1, 2022 Do you know who owns Peachland’s water? Who is responsible for Peachland’s water, who should be? What authority do local indigenous people have over this ecosystem? Do you know who makes the decisions governing our water...
by alex morrison | Feb 27, 2022 | Advocacy, Newsletter, Outreach
PWPA is a signatory on a letter to George Heyman Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, regarding the delayed timeline for public engagement on the Watershed Security Strategy and Fund. You can read the letter here
