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LEPS ------upcoming events
Spring 2010
Upcoming Events:

- FREE Pasture Management Workshop - Wednesday May 5, 7-9pm, Semiahmoo Fish and Game Club, 1284 184 St, contact Lisa to register

- Glen ValleyAnnual Spring Bird Count: Saturday May 29, 6-12pm contact Lisa for more details

Please visit www.leps.bc.ca/events for more details

a) Trinity Western news release 08
b) Salmon in the Valley
c) Salmon River Endangered Rivers Nomination 2009

See the video of Fisheries Minister Shea in Norway promoting salmon farms in BC.

Mark Warama Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of the Environment ( MP for Langley BC ) ---is asked by Doug Mcfee SRES
---------- Given that the courts have recently ruled that the province does not have
the authority to regulate fish farms I wonder if you could let us know what
the federal government plans to do about issues such as sea lice, allowing
fish farms in high value wild salmon habitat etc. Minister Shea response

thanks --Doug Mcfee

Open Letter to Fisheries Minister The Honourable Gail Shea ---- Alexandra Morton

SRES School Field Trip Education Program -------------

Salmon in the Valley education program ( field trip

Floodplain--------------------

Groundwater----------------------------

Langley Township Mayor

Rick Green Initiate an immediate plan for GVWD Water lines into Aldergrove and Gloucester.

Questions to the Langley Township Candidates Civic elections 2008

Response of candidates

Education -------------

Letter To Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (March 24/06 )
Fisheries and Oceans response ( Aug. 25 / 06 )
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
News Release June 20 / 06
Salmon River Enhancement Society
Environmental Library
Coho Return To Salmon River
Culverts, bridges disastrous
Drinking water
Fraser tops B.C. endangered rivers list
Keeping the stream
Contact your MLA

Wild Salmon Policy ---------

New Topics -----------

a) Trinity Western grant proposal

b) Rain coast research society ------ Alexandra Morton

c) Open Letter to Fisheries Minister The Honourable Gail Shea ---- Alexandra Morton

      How to be an activist    -----------------------   Elizabeth May
              e) How to make sure you're heard --------------    Dakshana Bascaramurty

Activist toolkit

Locate and work with champions inside government
Form wide partnerships; they can give you technical strength, management capacity, and credibility
Keep your community involved through small winnable elements and public education
Be persistent - government moves slowly
Be patient - it takes nature time to respond
Support your community's passion for place

Tsolum river restoration Jack Minard ----Executive Director of the Tsolum River Restoration Society.
- Salmon river water watch ---- Sunday Sept. 27th / 09 River’s Day at Williams Park
                        Newsletter   Rivers Day 2009 edition
          a) ------info on what to bring
                  b) ----- worksheet
                  c) ----- summarize what we saw

1 The name of the society is SALMON RIVER ENHANCEMENT SOCIETY.

2. The purposes of the society are:

To protect and enhance the natural resources of the Salmon River Watershed through the encouragement and fostering of good relationships between all levels of government involved in the Salmon River Watershed.
To participate fully in all governmental and administrative processes relating to the Salmon River watershed.
To encourage and support research and public education on all resource management issues relating to the Salmon River watershed.
To foster and undertake enhancement programs consistent with the society's purposes.
To raise funds to support the purposes of the society.
To provide a forum within which Salmon River Watershed residents can participate in the protection and enhancement of the watershed's resources

Profile of Society

The Salmon River Enhancement Society is a citizens group formed in 1995. Several founding members of the group had been active in the Langley Environmental Organization and as citizen members of the Salmon River Watershed Partnership. There was a need for a separate citizens group which could work with the government agencies but would also increase public involvement and lobby the government agencies when appropriate. While the Langley Environmental Organization had been active in this role it was felt that stream stewardship works best with groups that are devoted to specific watersheds.

The goal of the Society is to increase public awareness of the natural values of the Salmon River and its watershed. We have had good public involvement and media coverage of Society events such as tree planting, Rivers Day and our Annual Open House with DFO during the spring trapping and tagging program of juvenile salmonids. Coming educational projects include a manual for new home owners to promote good environmental stewardship and the erection of roadside signs to advise people when they are entering and leaving the watershed. In addition, the society functions as a "watchdog" over the watershed and has an ongoing 2-year program of water quality testing in the Salmon River and tributaries.

The Society works in conjunction with SRWMP UBC and with LEPS and other local environment groups. We believe that we are making progress but there is much more to do to educate residents and to encourage them to become personally involved so that they will "buy in" to the importance of preservation and protection of the watershed.

Last update 06/24/2010