by alex morrison | Apr 7, 2021 | Events
Herb Hammond is a Registered Professional Forester and forest ecologist with 40 years of experience in research, industry, teaching and consulting. Currently his work is carried out through Silva Ecosystem Consultants and the Silva Forest Foundation. He is best known...
by alex morrison | Apr 7, 2021 | Events, Member Activities & Meetings
Because it’s Earth Day, PWPA is foregoing a regular members’ meeting for this week and instead is provide the full 1.5 hours to host a special stand-alone event to mark Earth Day. Into the second year of a unique pandemic, which most of us have no previous...
by alex morrison | Mar 11, 2021 | Newsletter, Recipes, Watershed Wisdom
Be sure to pick very ripe berries. You can tell by the color. Deep red almost purple. You can find Chokecherry bushes everywhere in the Okanagan especially along the waterways. THEY ARE ORGANIC AND FREE. Clean picked berries. Remove stems and leaves. Put whole berries...
by alex morrison | Mar 11, 2021 | Member Activities & Meetings, Newsletter
At the February members meeting, we had special guest, Michelle Connolly present information about Conservation North, a community non-profit fighting old growth logging, based in Prince George. Her presentation was very relevant to what’s happening in...
by alex morrison | Mar 11, 2021 | Uncategorised
by Lee Humphries: Director PWPA, National Geographic Certified Outdoor Educator I remember when I first learned in Grade Three that the way through Canada was made by the water. All the explorers, traders, rail lines, roads….ALL follow the waterways. According to...
by alex morrison | Mar 11, 2021 | Events, ForestMarch, Newsletter
MEDIA ADVISORY PEACHLAND TAKES A STAND – Forest March BC March 19th, 2021 For Immediate Release March 2021 Peachlanders Take a Stand to Halt Clear-cut Logging in Watershed On Friday, March 19, 2021, The Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance (PWPA) together...
by alex morrison | Mar 11, 2021 | Floods, In the news, Letters to the Editor, Newsletter
On March the Okanagan Basin Water Board issued a press release commenting on the need to rethink the management of lake levels in Okanagan Lake, to mitigate the risk of extreme flooding in the future. You can read it all here. The impacts of clear-cut logging on...
by alex morrison | Mar 9, 2021 | Uncategorised
Peachlanders Take a Stand to Halt Clear-cut Logging in Watershed On Friday, March 19, 2021, The Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance (PWPA) will be taking a stand for the Peachland Watershed on March 19th at noon at the IGA parking lot and Highway 97. “With...
by alex morrison | Feb 28, 2021 | Advocacy, In the news, News Releases, Peachland, Watershed Watch
District of Peachland selects prominent local watershed advocate for Healthy Watershed Committee (Peachland, March 1, 2021): The Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance (PWPA) is pleased to announce the appointment of PWPA co-founder and director, Taryn Skalbania, to...
by alex morrison | Feb 14, 2021 | Did You Know...?, Newsletter, Watershed Watch
British Columbians have NO right to clean water and how this impacts Peachland and our watershed. Is fresh drinking water a human right? The Human Right to Water and Sanitation (HRWAS) is a principle that acknowledges that clean drinking water and sanitation are...
