Youth Initiatives - Cortes Children's Forest Trust

Alumni & Ambassador Ceremony

BioBlitz 2019 hosted four special guests at the Friday evening campfire circle - four alumni from the book, ‘Forest Alphabet: Artistic Visions of a Forest in Trust to the Children’. In 2010, Alma, … read more »

Photos: Fall walks in the Children's Forest

October's Nature Study Day November Art/Nature day … read more »

2019 BioBlitz Photos!

Bioblitz 2019 was a great success, with nearly 100 participants! Here are a selection of photos from the Bioblitz and forest camp. … read more »

BioBlitz 2019!

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, … read more »

Ceremony Honours Children’s Forest Ambassadors

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 … read more »

BioBlitz 2018 Video Trailer

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. … read more »

BioBlitz 2018 Photos!

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 … read more »

A FOREST FULL OF THANKS …

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 … read more »

Youth Streamkeepers Spring 2018

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 … read more »

BioBlitz! 2018 & our new Camp Skills Workshop

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 … read more »

April 1st Nature Study Day… No Fooling!!!

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 … read more »

Nature Study Days in the Children’s Forest

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 … read more »

Children’s Forest Fairy Tea Party

The Children’s Forest tea party was a delightful afternoon of youth improv theatre and delectable treats. Huge thanks to the youth for their shining, witty, inspiring improv theatre that brought laughter & … read more »

Children's Forest Youth Update Summer 2017

As the youth programming for The Children’s Forest slows down for the summer, I want to offer the community an update. It has been a fast paced, fun filled, deeply educational and … read more »

Shorekeeper Foreshore Training 2017

Shorekeeper foreshore training was sponsored by the FTCCIS and offered to Cortes youth in May of 2017. Twelve permanently established sites in the rocky foreshore of Cortes Island are monitored annually by the … read more »