Ideas!!

Peninsula Streams is taking action on the peice of stream adjacent to Adam Kerr park. The stream currently suffers from drought like conditions during the summer, preventing the main stay of many water loving creatures that make up a healthy stream ecosystem. Currently, there is a well further down the creek and it has been proposed to move the water from the existing outlet further upstream which could provide water in the dry months. While we were visiting the stream we saw a muskrat chasing a rat, I liked this. The riparian zone of this section of the creek has been dominated by reed canary grass. It is unsure if the canary grasss is a totally invasive species or if the canary grass has spread further south on the Island. It behaves like an invasive and should be removed from the creek.
It is in the communities best interest to revive and preserve urban parks as they offer sanctuary to the individuals of the community. A park like Adam Kerr has the potential to support wildlife of all sorts. It seems to me that the degradation of urban parks is a reflection of how detached we've become from understanding why we valued parks in the first place.

Young Ambassadors of School District #63 Isolate Environmental Superhero

Currently Mr. Floatie is as close an environmental superhero as Victoria's got. The folks up in Sydney think it's about time a more attractive and versatile superhero bring environmental causes to the forefront of the community. The people in charge of creating the image and scope of this new environmental superhero are the grade sixer's for school district #63, North Saanich. Some of the contestant superheroes include Waterwoman, a woman so pure she can suck polluted water up her right arm and purify the water as it travels across her chest and out the other arm. Super leaf and Acorn Boy are a team of enviromental avengers whose ultra sensitivity to pollution make this pair the world's greatest duo of indicator organisms. Many other environmental superhero admissions were received for the grade 6'ers and all of them creative and educational. The winner of this contest will see their enviro superhero design come to life. The presence of the superhero in our communtiy will symbolize our ongoing stewardship and awareness of environmental initiatives while putting the youth in the driver seat.

Keep track of this blog to find updates regarding the environmental superhero contest and the big event coming up in April called, "Days of Action, 2009" put on by the creatures of habitat and Penninsula Streams and others. Keep in touch bloggers!!!!