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Environmental Groups

 

Alpine Club

Allen & Maureen Parsons    604  485 6882   Email  

Promotes access to and appreciation of the alpine regions in our area and environmentally sound forest management. Provides logging road updates. Activities include alpine hiking, rock climbing, mountain climbing, back country snowshoeing and skiing. Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photographs.

Community Advisory Group to Stillwater Timberlands Cascadia

c/o 4695 Cascade Place, V8A 2X7

Pam Dowding     604 4855243
Cathy Bartfai      604 414 4687  Email
Fax: 604 485 3777

Website

Junior Forest Wardens #127

4753 Manson Avenue

604 485 5347  Tom Odale   604 485 4108

Ages 9 years and up; promotes an interest in conservation and protecting forest resources; encourages good citizenship.

Meetings:  Wednesdays, 6:30 - 8:30 pm Edgehill School, 7312 Abbotsford St

Malaspina Land Conservancy Society  Website   Email

4580 Michigan Avenue. Powell River, BC   V8A 2S8

A non-profit organization that assists private land owners to preserve their private lands through donations of land or funds, bequests, purchase, fundraising or conservation covenants.

Janet Alred, President
Paul Schacter, Vice President
Denise Reinhardt, Secretary
Eva van Loon, Treasurer

Membership: $10  Please call 604 483-3683 for more information.

Malaspina Naturalist Club  Website

Elizabeth Tenhoeve, President  604 485 2125
Janet Alred, Past President   604 485 0077   Email
Heather Harbord   604 485-5379
Sherri Wretham  Email

Founded in January 1999, the Malaspina Naturalist Club welcomes all residents and visitors interested in the flora, fauna and geology of our beautiful temperate rainforest. Associate members of the Federation of BC Naturalists.   Activities include monthly field trips, community learning programs and local nature research.  New members welcome.

Meetings: 10 per year with a social gathering at 7:00; meeting and speaker at 7:30
United Church Hall, 6932 Crofton Street. . Meetings are scheduled at the speakers convenience.

Parks and Wilderness Society (PAWS)

Eagle Walz   604 483 9565   Email
Scott Glaspey   604 485 9463

Website

Donations to Millennium Park Fund are accepted at the Powell River Credit Union and are tax deductible.  Receipts will be issued.  More.... (pop-up window)

Pebble in the Pond

C6 RR1 Pine Tree Place, Powell River  V8A 4Z2

Founding Directors: CaroleAnne Leishman, Emma Levez Larocque, Janet May,
Karen Skadsheim, Melissa Call, Judi Tyabji Wilson

A group started in Powell River by a small group of people who were feeling frustrated and helpless about the state of the environment. The plastic issue came to our attention because of an article that was posted on the Internet about the Pacific Gyre, of which none of us had ever heard before.

After doing some research into the gyre and reading more about it, the feeling of horror was so strong that we couldn't just sit by and do nothing. And so we became pebbles in our pond, hoping to get information out to the public about the plastic issue, and get the wheels turning in order to rid our city, our province, our country, our oceans - and ultimately the world of this destructive material.

Website   Email

Rod and Gun Club

3300 Rifle Range Road
PO Box 81, V8A 4Z5

 Club House:  604 485 4459
Ken Jackson    604 487 4332

Facilities include outdoor and indoor ranges. Hosts trap, pistol and rifle shoots. Involved in conservation projects.

Meetings: 1st Wednesday each month, 7:00 pm at the clubhouse.

 

Salmon Society

6270 Yew Street, V8A 4K1

Manager: Shane Dobler   604 483 9440
Membership Coordinator: Bob McCartney  Email

Website     Email

Organized to enhance the salmonoid stocks. Currently operating salmon hatcheries at Duck Lake and Powell River Pulp Mill; and a spawning channel at Lang Bay.

Savary Island Land Trust Society

Executive Director: Liz Webster     604 483 4743

Website   Email

The Savary Island Land Trust (S.I.L.T.) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of natural areas and biological diversity on Savary Island for present and future generations.  S.I.L.T. was incorporated as a society in October 1997 and received registered charity status in June 1998.

Transition Town Powell River

Part of a world wide movement that is responding to the threats posed by climate change, resource depletion (peak oil) and economic instability. Although the movement is world wide it is a community based response to these challenges. We focus on and encourage community and local resilience. Powell River is the eighth city/town to become an "official" transition town in Canada. Video (more information)

Local contact: Kevin Wilson  Email

Willingdon Creek Habitat Restoration Project

c/o 6274 Walnut Street, V8A 4K5

SandI Morris    604 414 0160     Fax: 604 414 0161

Restoration of fish habitat on Willingdon, McFall and McGuffie Creeks. Strictly volunteers.

 

 

 

There is an excellent video explaining global warming in a way that anyone can understand by Friends of the Earth.