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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 »

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 »