A FOREST FULL OF THANKS…
… to the great community turnout for BioBlitz 2019!!!
Yet again… close to 100 enthusiastic participants walked into Carrington Bay Park basecamp the first weekend in May to visit,
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green cedar feathers
rambunctious children chatter
soft forest stillness
The Board of the Forest Trust for the Children of Cortes Island Society recently honoured several youth as Children’s Forest Ambassadors at a
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On March 3, the Forest Tribe gathered for a walk into the springtime sounds of the Children’s Forest!! We were welcomed by golden-crowned kinglets calling from the high canopy and we mimicked
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Sabina Leader Mense welcomed the Quadra Island Outdoor’s Club members to the Children’s Forest on a beautiful January the 23d!!! Club members rolled in on the first ferry to Whaletown Bay
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The 2018 BioBlitz in the Children's Forest was a great success! See this post for the full report, and this post for fantastic photos of the event shot by Seamus Summers.
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This collection of photos, shot by Seamus Summers and Jonah Weyler, captures the wonder of BioBlitz! 2018 in the Children's Forest. Learn more about Seamus's photography here. For a
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A FOREST FULL OF THANKS…
… to the great community turnout for BioBlitz 2018!!!
Close to 100 enthusiastic participants walked into Carrington Bay Park basecamp and explored the Children’s Forest with us over
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Youth streamkeepers were making their way gently down the creek, wild, wet & slippery, and any respectable trout or coho were as far away as possible from the hip-wading youth participating in another
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FTCCIS is excited to announce their participation in an exciting new partnership on Cortes Island!!! Cortes Wild! is a partnership initiated by the Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society (CIMAS) to support their
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BioBlitz! 2018... May 4, 5 & 6
Camp Skills Workshop... April 20
In preparation for our Community Campout at Carrington Bay Park campsite, base camp for BioBlitz! 2018, a Camp Skills Workshop will
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Another EPIC walk, this time from Carrington Bay campsite the back way onto Blitz Bluff!!! Only for the hardiest of heart; this bush whacking was serious!!!
We found previously undiscovered bluffs bursting with
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FTCCIS Nature Study Days in the Children's Forest continued this month with an epic hike up Blitz Bluff and north around the east side of the Carrington Lagoon!
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Place-based, experiential education; AKA, good fun!
Alan Gussow, artist and environmental activist defined place as “a part of the whole environment that we claim with feelings.”
The Children’s Forest on Cortes Island
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