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Parksville 2019 on YouTube > Improving Where We Live – “The Symposium provided a huge boost to MVIHES, in our efforts to draw attention to our ‘watershed health depends on you’ program,” stated Peter Law, President, Mid Vancouver Island Habitat Enhancement Society (April 2019)

July 1, 2019


Peter Law narrated a video about the environmental conditions and challenges faced in the Shelly Creek watershed. The video includes an overview of the condition of the Shelly Creek stream channel for Coho salmon and Cutthroat trout. It also illuminates the efforts of MVIHES to preserve and protect the stream. “At Parksville 2019, the field day at Shelly Creek was a big hit, in large part due to the charismatic personality of stream restoration innovator Dave Derrick in conducting both the classroom and outdoor lectures,” stated Peter Law.

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Parksville 2019 on YouTube > Beacons of Hope on Vancouver Island – “We are moving into the exciting part of the program. We are moving into restorative development,” stated Richard Boase, Water Stewardship Symposium Series Moderator, when he shared his perspective on featured Vancouver Island success stories to start the afternoon session on Day Two of the Symposium (April 2019)

July 1, 2019


“Some heavy lifting has gone into the wonderful stories that we are sharing at the symposium. Most importantly, there is a return on investment when restoring natural systems,” stated Richard Boase. “There is a lots of work yet to be done. What if community groups started coming forward and saying we like this project because we believe there is a restoration return on investment? The takeaway message is that, from an asset management perspective, these restored assets are going to give us a return.”

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Parksville 2019 on YouTube > “Storm Cunningham reached out to the Partnership a year ago. He wanted to be part of the symposium and help us with moving forward with restorative development,” stated Richard Boase, Water Stewardship Symposium Series Moderator, when he set the stage for the closing presentation at the Symposium (April 2019)

June 30, 2019


In this video clip, Richard Boase introduces Storm Cunningham to conclude Day Two of Parksville 2019. “Everywhere one turns these days, some form of the words ‘renewal’, ‘restoration’ or ‘regeneration’ appear. Storm Cunningham was the catalyst of that global ‘re’ trend when his first book, The Restoration Economy, was published in 2002,” stated Richard Boase. “Storm Cunningham believes that we need to start talking about, thinking about, and researching the ‘whole’ created by the myriad activities that are already restoring our built and natural environments worldwide.”

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