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b.c. writer sheila harrington hopes her new book will act as an antidote to today’s cynicism and remind readers, through conservation success stories, that positive change can happen.
voices for the islands: thirty years of nature conservation on the salish sea , out now, focuses on the stories of people living on the salish sea islands who formed land trusts/conservancies, who work in marine and land conservation today, and those who worked in provincial and federal agencies that helped to create federal and provincial parks on the islands.
“there are a lot of people in the world who are feeling kind of hopeless,” said harrington, who has lived off the grid on lasqueti island for the past 15 years.
to write her book , harrington packed up her 28-foot macwester sailboat and travelled to islands in the salish sea (puget sound to the edge of desolation sound) and interviewed veteran conservationists on how they rallied others and gained local, provincial and national support to secure protected areas and parks.
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the 75-kilometre trail on vancouver island is rated as one of the world’s greatest hikes. this gem of a book provides a practical and easy-to-use resource for hikers with plans of hitting the west coast trail.
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after more than three decades in print this is still an essential guide to the fundamentals of seamanship for ocean paddlers.
this book is a true west coast classic.
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with photos by nancy randall, this part travelogue and natural history book takes readers on a fabulous journey extending from port renfrew on the strait of juan de fuca to desolation sound.
the book is filled with facts about plants, animals, the area’s history, parks and communities. throughout, it highlights events in nature that are west coast and wonderful.
while not directly connected to the salish sea, this environmental true-crime tale tells the story of a unemployed b.c. forest engineer named grant hadwin who in a bizarre protest in haida gwaii in 1997 took a chainsaw to the legendary 300-year-old sitka spruce tree that stood 50 metres tall and was covered with golden needles.
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