Cortes Children's Forest Trust (Page 1)

Children's Forest Land Acquisition Update

The Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society is excited to share more details about progress on the purchase of the Children’s Forest. We have entered into an agreement with … read more »

Purchase and Sale Agreement

The Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society (FTCCIS/Children’s Forest Trust) has some wonderful news to share. We have signed an historic sale and purchase agreement with Mosaic Forest … read more »

New website is live!

We're pleased to announce the release of our new website! Join us at corteschildrensforesttrust.org to explore the significance of the Children's Forest, and see what we're … read more »

2025 AGM – A Power Point Overview of 15 Years

A retrospective of the accomplishments of fifteen amazing years for the Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society! A nearly impossible task to capture the many hours of joyful discoveries, wild … read more »

RESET Labs - Simon Fraser University Visit

FTCCIS hosted SFU Faculty of Health Science students & instructors in the RESET Lab’s 2024 field school. The lab was interested in the Children's Forest Trust initiative as a case … read more »

Cortes Island Elementary/Junior Secondary School Field Trips

School District #72 students & teachers were invited to walk the Children’s Forest for a place-based, experiential exploration of Spring in their ‘backyard’. The teachers were as equally excited as the students, … read more »

Klahoose/Ayajuthem Language Session

FTCCIS hosted Klahoose First Nation Elder, Jesse Louie, and high school students in the Children’s Forest for story-telling and teaching the cultural uses of forest plants for food & medicine. The students … read more »

2024 AGM with Merlin Sheldrake

Merlin Sheldrake, biologist, is a long-time, summer resident of Cortes and author of ‘Entangled Life – How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds & Shape our Futures (2020) and presenter/narrator of the … read more »

Deer Trails Program

The Land Conservancy of BC partnered with the FTCCIS to offer a pilot programme aimed at young adults who are seriously contemplating a naturalist profession. Participants in the Deer Trails Naturalist Program explored … read more »

2023 AGM

We were exceptionally fortunate to have a stellar cast as keynote presenters – Dr Suzanne Simard, author (‘Finding the Mother Tree – Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest’) & UBC Professor of Forest Ecology; Tzeporah … read more »

Giving Tuesday 2022 Update

This year's Giving Tuesday Campaign was an enormous success and we raised 13,905$! We want to thank everyone who worked hard on the campaign and donated their time and money. … read more »

FTCCIS Virtual AGM 2022 - Forest Alphabet

This year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we made the decision to keep our AGM virtual for the second time. Despite the challenges of this platform our AGM was a resounding success and … read more »

Spring Nest Box Project

The spring nest box project was a collaboration between the FTCCIS and Friends of Cortes Island Society. Thirty-eight nest boxes were built by families for violet-green & tree swallows and hairy woodpeckers. One … read more »

Virtual AGM Presentation by Paul Stamets

A great big thank you to Paul Stamets and his amazing, fascinating presentation that helped to make our virtual AGM such a great success! … read more »

Giving Tuesday Update

We were overjoyed with the generosity and response from the Cortes community, near and far. … read more »