Recent News: Youth Outreach

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »