| PREVIOUS DNS Monthly Meeting: Tues. February 7, 2023, starts 7:30 pm Speaker: Sharon MacGougan Topic: Miyawaki Forest-Celebrating Biodiversity (links to YouTube recording of Zoom presentation) |
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Planting the First Miyawaki “Pocket Forest” in Western Canada
The Garden City Conservation Society and Richmond Senior Secondary’s Green Team recently planted the first Miyawaki “Pocket Forest” in Western Canada. These biodiverse forests can exist in small spaces and could be a perfect addition to our city parks and other protected lands. At the meeting we’ll share a Power Point presentation documenting the steps of our process from start to finish. Could this kind of forest be part of the answer to the big question – how to mitigate ecological loss? We hope so.
Our society also engages in stewardship activities on the bog area of the Garden City Lands (GCL), including a successful shore pine rescue, and sphagnum moss research, transplant and propagation in collaboration with Kwantlen Polytechnical University. Time permitting, we’ll show a short video of our most recent sphagnum moss project on the GCL.
Sharon MacGougan
Sharon is President of the Garden City Conservation Society, director of the Tir-na-nOg Theatre School
and Casa Meshiko Cultural Society; White Crane kung fu instructor, member of the International Council of Dance (UNESCO) and accredited teacher of Aztec dance. Sharon has a deep love of the natural world and is committed to the idea of “good measure”, something that she learned from her father at a young age. Always give back a little bit more!
Delta Naturalists Society 