It takes me exactly 8 minutes to ride from our home to one of my fave spots by nearby #ColquitzRiver. I have a few fave spots around this local nature park. It connects with several other local #Saanich parks.
We've had a tonne of rain recently. While walking along the trail I stumbled upon this verdant green watershed! Some of the greenest plants I've ever seen!
Capital Regional District’s Get to Know Your #H2O Tours are a great way to discover how your drinking #water is delivered from the source to your tap. During the tour you’ll discover the natural landscapes, water supply #reservoirs, and the treatment process that provides Greater Victoria with high quality tap water.
#Sooke has ordered Viewpointe Estates to stop work within the 30-metre riparian area of its #development project, citing potential violations of #environmental regulations.
The move follows concerns raised by residents about the project’s impact on #EllaStream and the surrounding #watershed.
In regard to the #ClimateCrisis, IMO, there is no shortage of solutions for many myriad, curiously connected, problems (not to mention #overshoot#predicaments). Where we're slacking, it seems, is deployment of them (at least the scale of the Civilian Conservation Corps [1933 to '42], for example). Landscape rehabilitation, i.e. 'hands-on' application of long-practiced earth- & water-work techniques, used by humans over 1000s of years; #CheckDams / pits / channels / #acequias / #ponds; mimicking beavers, essentially. Slowing water down, spreading it out, & sinking it in, as the #permaculture aphorism goes. The gathering together of actual human beings to lay hands on and apply simple tools to generate radical regenerative shifts in the regional #watershed#ecology & #hydrology (as well as health & trade) is being modeled for the world to see, in various locales. It's one thing to watch a video. To make it happen everywhere is both necessary AND possible. Start yesterday if not sooner.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwIZ5tgj-b_R8F_TpYQRhkoQCNvx7evTm
I want to show how beautiful & important that community parks & greenspaces are essential to our living ecosystems. Nature doesn't need us - WE NEED NATURE!
Uploading my video from Calvert Park hike now. Shot from a fantastic viewpoint - atop moss & lichen covered huge boulders. We climbed atop them boulders & rested for snacks/water break. Took photos & one vid.
Today. I hiked Calvert park in early afternoon with my friend, Marie. Got lost, ended up in someone's backyard & walked down their driveway back to road. The old trail back to road has been blocked off.
Meet the mighty Elwah River out on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s not just another pretty place but also the sight of the world’s largest dam removal project.
*Update March 2023: Work officially began on the Klamath River Restoration, now the world’s largest dam removal project.