PREVIOUS DNS Monthly Meeting: Tues. 04 May, 2021
Speaker: Deborah Jones
Topic: Rain Gardens for Salmon (link to YouTube video of presentation)
What do gardens have to do with salmon?! Learn exactly what rain gardens are, the many benefits they provide, and why they’re essential for healthy ecosystems (especially salmon streams). Enjoy photos of some of North Delta’s 29 school and community rain gardens, then get ideas for quick ’n’ easy ones you can do yourself.
Deborah Jones has a BA in Urban Studies, a Masters of Library Science, and worked for Vancouver Public Library for over 30 years.
She and husband Ib Nielsen joined the volunteer group Cougar Creek Streamkeepers in 2004, after noticing illegal tree-cutting on the banks of the most productive salmon stream in North Delta. They put their gardening experience to work on a restoration planting project along that streambank.
One project led to another, and then another, and another ….
Deb now serves as volunteer Rain Gardens Coordinator for the Streamkeepers, overseeing the maintenance of 29 school and community rain gardens created since 2006 in collaboration with the City of Delta, Delta School District, Pacific Salmon Foundation, Nature Trust of BC and others. She also advises the Nature Trust on their rain garden grant program.
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