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“I have met so many stewards who are inspiring and so awesome. They do the hard work that creates the data that makes politicians listen,” said Dave Clough, a fisheries biologist who works with streamkeeper groups on the east coast of Vancouver Island

Dave was a member of a 5-person panel and town-hall, This was the program heart for the Nanaimo 2018 Water Symposium. Panel reflections on project experience set the scene for town-hall interaction. The over-arching theme was: collaboration is necessary for restorative development; and a ‘design with nature’ land and water ethic is key to ‘getting it right’ over time.

Dave Clough talked about training and supporting legions of volunteer stream stewards – what works and what doesn’t for long lasting watershed engagement.

“As a professional biologist, that is my career. But my heart is a streamkeeper. And I was that first. Howard English, down at Goldstream, taught me that the value of caring for the environment could come from anyone, from any walk of life. He was a barber. Streamkeepers are the engine that is going to make this (restorative development) work.”


ABOUT THE NANAIMO 2018 SYMPOSIUM:

The rhythms of water are changing – warmer and wetter winters; longer and drier summers. Adapting to this ‘new normal’ requires transformation in how we value nature and service land, and how we reconnect hydrology and ecology.

Why are the rhythms of water are changing in British Columbia? The short answer is that the water cycle is out of balance. Why is this? The explanation is that warming of the planet’s atmosphere is causing water to move more quickly and disruptively through the global water cycle. Local consequences are magnified.

In the urban environment, the goal of the ‘whole-system’ approach is to restore the water balance and re-establish watershed function!

Adapting to climate change requires transformation in how we perceive watershed worth and service land. Held in April 2018, the Nanaimo Water Symposium was designed to foster a conversation in the mid-Vancouver Island region and beyond about the transformational scope of the “Sustainable Watershed Systems, through Asset Management” program.

The symposium was an outreach and professional development event, held under the umbrella of the Georgia Basin Inter-Regional Education Initiative. Delegates learned about three initiatives in particular:

(1) the good things that flow from local government and stewardship sector collaboration;

(2) the over-arching role played by the innovative and precedent-setting Drinking Water & Watershed Protection Program in the Regional District of Nanaimo; and,

(3) the first demonstration applications of the Ecological Accounting Process (EAP) to assess “watershed worth”.

The Nanaimo 2018 Symposium was a ‘call to action’. The theme? Build on the good outcomes that flow from local government and stewardship sector collaboration!

It introduced a vision for ‘restorative land development’ that would re-establish creekshed function. And it energized the audience with this challenge: How will communities ‘get it right’ through collaboration as land develops and redevelops?

DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE SYMPOSIUM BROCHURE:

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The Symposium has been captured in its entirety in a set of five videos that have been uploaded to YouTube for ease of access by those who are curious and/or interested to learn about what transpired on April 11-12 in Nanaimo, British Columbia.

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