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RE: ZOOM LIVESTREAM: we had originally intended to Livestream the Nanaimo event but due to lack of a volunteer to manage it, we will not being doing the Livestream. The presentations will be recorded and emailed to everyone who previously signed up for the Livestream within 2 weeks of the event. We apologize for any inconvenience.
DATE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 12-4:30pm
LOCATION: BEBAN SOCIAL CENTER, AUDITORIUM A, 2300 BOWEN ROAD, NANAIMO
PARKING: free at the Beban complex
COST: by donation at the door
RECORDINGS: Presentations will be recorded and publicly available at https://www.boundaryforest.org approximately 2 weeks after event.
| TIME | EVENT PROGRAMME NANAIMO |
| 12:00-12:15 | OPENING: MC Guy Dauncey – Yellow Point Ecological Society, Indigenous Welcome – Snuneymuxw Elder (TBA) |
| 12:15-12:40 12:40-12:50 Q & A | Geraldine Manson, Snuneymuwx Elder & Traditional Knowledge Keeper: Traditional Uses of the Forest |
| 12:50-1:00 | Break |
| 1:00-1:25 1:25-1:35 Q & A | Dave Weaver, Beaufort Watershed Stewards: How much logging is too much? Vancouver Island Case Study – Tsable River Watershed |
| 1:35-2:05 | Break |
| 2:05-2:30 2:30-2:40 Q&A | Daniel Arbour, Regional District, Comox Valley Regional District – Shifting management of Private Managed Forest Land Act over to Regional Districts and First Nation Communities |
| 2:40-2:50 | Break |
| 2:50-3:15 3:15-3:25 Q & A | Jennifer Houghton, Boundary Forest Watershed Stewardship Society: The New Forest Act for Public Land & How to Get There |
| 3:25-3:45 3:45-3:55 | Paul Manly, Nanaimo City Councillor – Banning Glyphosate, Changing the Forest Practices Code + Approaching MLAs |
| 3:55-4:10 | Role Play |
| 4:15-4:30 | Q & A/Panel Discussion |
SPEAKERS
Geraldine Manson – Geraldine has worked for her community since 1980 and gives credit for her cultural wisdom and education to her Elders, present, and Elders who have passed on. As the Elders’ Coordinator for Snuneymuxw First Nations, she carries many other responsibilities that relate to culture and traditions in the community. Geraldine has served her community as elected council-member. She was mentored by Dr. Ellen White (Kwulasulwut) in the traditional cultural practices of the Snuneymuxw people.
Dave Weaver – Dave has worked in field forestry for 37 years, for many BC organizations. He was a Registered Professional Forester (RPF) since 1981 and resigned from this association when he retired in 2016 – to help free his voice. He started his career right here on Vancouver Island, working for one of BC’s largest forest companies – MacMillian Bloedel – as a Field Forester for 11 years, but left realizing corporate forestry was not for him and moved with his family to Smithers BC. While in the northern interior for 14 years, he worked as a Forest Consultant performing pre and post logging assessments, but also worked part-time as a Forestry College Instructor, teaching applied ecology. He also held a joint Woodlot Licence, implementing low-impact forestry techniques. For the last 12 years of his career, he worked for the BC Ministry of Forests out of Victoria. During these final years he traveled all over BC, developing innovative silviculture policies and provided field training in alternative approaches to clear cutting. Currently Dave is volunteering with the Beaufort Watershed Stewards in Fanny Bay and has completed two watershed health assessment reports and is now sharing their significant findings.
Daniel Arbour – Daniel Arbour, was elected as Comox Valley Regional District Area A Director in 2018, and re-elected in 2022. Daniel also holds a position as Partnerships and Grants staff at the University of Victoria’s Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, working remotely from the Comox Valley. Prior to holding these roles, Daniel worked as an economic development officer on Hornby Island (2014-2018), and as a Program Manager at Ecotrust Canada (2007-2014). Daniel holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies from Royal Roads University, and a certificate in Public Policy Analysis from the London School of Economics. Daniel is currently working on a proposal to amend the Private Managed Forest Land Act.
Paul Manly – Paul Manly began his environmental activism and advocacy as a teenager and worked as a campaigner and organizer for Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee. After graduation from broadcasting in 1991, he turned his activism towards media production. In 1993, he produced a video exposé that led to a moratorium on logging in the CRD/Victoria community drinking watershed. In the 2004, he produced an exposé on the aerial fertilizer spray program in the Nanaimo community drinking watershed that led to the end of that practice. He has produced numerous documentaries including ‘Voices of the River’ about the Nanaimo River and ‘Troubled Water’ about community drinking watersheds within the E&N land grant lands. He continued his advocacy for watershed and biodiversity protection as the Member of Parliament for Nanaimo Ladysmith from 2019 to 2021 and now as a Nanaimo City Councillor and Director on the Nanaimo Regional District board.
Jennifer Houghton – After her Grand Forks home flooded in 2017 and 2018, Jennifer became deeply involved in reforming forestry in BC. She co-founded BFWSS along with a small group of locals concerned about the damage from industrial logging to the ecosystems in the region. Jennifer has done extensive filming of the effects of the flooding on the people of the area. She has been the lead organizer of Forest March BC, forestry summits, and runs the Facebook group BC Forestry Reform. She continues to speak, present, and collaborate with BC grassroots groups to drive for forest management to prioritize ecosystems and local communities rather than corporate profits. She is the Project Manager and presenter for the Power of Forests project.
Master of Ceremonies: Guy Dauncey, Yellow Point Ecological Society. Guy is an ecotopian futurist who works to develop a positive vision of a sustainable future, and to translate that vision into action. He is founder of the BC Sustainable Energy Association, and the author or co-author of ten books, including Journey to the Future: A Better World Is Possible. He is an Honorary Member of the Planning Institute of BC, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. His websites are www.earthfuture.com, www.journeytothefuture.ca and www.thepracticalutopian.ca.