We focus on educating our local community with a broad range of activities and workshops focused on the importance of our waterways.
Our programs include community art projects, water cycle related field trips, and workshops for the wider community.
Since 2009 NSSK has helped facilitate salmon conservation themed art and science based workshops offered to local elementary schools through Artist for Kids. The workshops help raise awareness and increase understanding of the unique environment we share on the North Shore. These workshops have resulted in beautiful murals (Heywood Park Hatchery 2009/12, Mosquito Creek Estuary 2016) and colourful banners (Coho Festival 2014/15).
Wild Chance – documents the MacKay Creek Ecology Community Art Project (photo: Wild Chance) Click on the above image to view the video.
Art generated through science workshops offered to local schools – Heywood Park Hatchery (photo: Heywood hatchery)
Art generated through science workshops offered to local schools – Mosquito Creek Estuary Mural (photo: Art – mural 1_cropped, (photo: Art – mural 1_cropped) Click on above image to view video
We have prepared lessons for elementary school classes about creeks, how they work, and how to protect salmon. Based on a combination of in-class and streamside learning, activities include a ‘salmon mystery game’, a one-minute challenge, and bug surveys. We have worked with classes at the Morten Creek hatchery, Hastings creek at Hunter Park as well as the lower Seymour River during the salmon spawning season.
Salmonids in the Classroom – a program run by Fisheries and Oceans Canada to support salmonid incubation in the classroom
Stream to Sea Education Program – Fisheries and Oceans Canada helps students become aquatic stewards
Gently down the Seymour – Seymour Salmonid Society runs education programs at the hatchery and on the Seymour
Storm Drain Marking Program – for supplies for storm drain marking projects to increase public awareness, contact Lynn Valley Ecology Centre
These photos are from two workshops held in Fall 2016 where students investigated the fish fence on the Lower Seymour, and salmon carcasses.
Contact the BC Government:
Report All Poachers and Polluters (RAPP)
24 hr hotline: 1‐877‐952‐7277
Contact Fisheries and Oceans Canada if
salmon are involved:
Observe, Record, Report
1‐800‐465‐4336
DFO.ORR-ONS.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
