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Experience 1: Watershed Stories on the Capilano River

Location: Capilano Regional Park, North Vancouver

Hosts/Leaders: Kate Henderson & David Barnum (Metro Vancouver), EEPSA & Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation (HCTF)

Overview:

Every place has a story. Many powerful place-based stories focus around water. Through the lenses of human uses of water, more-than-human uses of water and Indigenous histories of water, participants will deepen their understanding of how to use their own local watershed as a teaching space. This day begins in the Capilano Watershed and moves downstream past the Cleveland Dam, through Capilano River Regional Park, the Capilano Hatchery, and then to Camp Capilano. Participants will: 

  • Get to know Metro Vancouver’s drinking water, water conservation, watershed management and education programs

  • Experience and celebrate the spawning season, the salmon forest and connections to nature 

  • Learn more about the Indigenous history of the Capilano River 

  • Be inspired to deepen the use of local watersheds and connections to community partners

  • Enjoy a tasty local lunch at Camp Capilano

Experience 2: Stories, Relationships, and Connections from the River’s Edge

Location: Langley, Derby Reach Park & Fort Langley

Hosts/Leaders: Vanessa Lee & Marlee St. Pierre: Langley Environmental Partners Society (LEPS), Parks Canada, Langley Environmental Awareness Programs (LEAP), BCTF’s Environmental Educators Provincial Specialists Association (EEPSA), Metro Vancouver Regional Parks

Overview:

Flow from Derby Reach Regional Park to Fort Langley National Historic Site with fellow educators and local partners. Be inspired to embrace the river’s edge for impactful local learning! Participants will: 

  • Explore connections and strategies to nature at Derby Reach Park bog platform 

  • Get to know how salmon help trees, lichen, and the bog  

  • Connect with educators from across BC 

  • Enjoy a tasty bannock lunch

  • Explore bio-cultural relationships and local history through an onsite experience at Fort Langley 

  • Be introduced to the Langley Environmental Awareness Program (LEAP), a program that embraces the outdoor classroom year round

Experience 2: Stories, Relationships, and Connections from the River’s Edge

Location: Langley, Derby Reach Park & Fort Langley

Hosts/Leaders: Vanessa Lee & Marlee St. Pierre: Langley Environmental Partners Society (LEPS), Parks Canada, Langley Environmental Awareness Programs (LEAP), BCTF’s Environmental Educators Provincial Specialists Association (EEPSA), Metro Vancouver Regional Parks

Overview:

Flow from Derby Reach Regional Park to Fort Langley National Historic Site with fellow educators and local partners. Be inspired to embrace the river’s edge for impactful local learning! Participants will: 

  • Explore connections and strategies to nature at Derby Reach Park bog platform 

  • Get to know how salmon help trees, lichen, and the bog  

  • Connect with educators from across BC 

  • Enjoy a tasty bannock lunch

  • Explore bio-cultural relationships and local history through an onsite experience at Fort Langley 

  • Be introduced to the Langley Environmental Awareness Program (LEAP), a program that embraces the outdoor classroom year round