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| Share Your Stories! The newsletter was created as a platform to share updates from the Park Board and for our Park Partners and Stewards to learn about what is happening in our parks and connect with each other.
Send an email to parkstewards@vancouver.ca with any comments, feedback, and articles to be featured in the upcoming editions of the newsletter! To share your work and events, please be aware of the following dates:
- Featured articles must be submitted by the 15th*.
- Stewardship events must be submitted by the 26th* with event details.
*of the current month to be featured in the following month.
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Vancouver Bird Week will be returning to celebrate all things avian! Stanley Park Ecology Society (SPES) is coordinating Bird Week again this year. From May 11 to 17 there will be workshops and walks galore hosted by a variety of partners across the Lower Mainland. From bird walk tours led by local experts to bird-related arts and crafts, there is something for everyone.
Leading up to the festival, Vancouver Bird Week will also be posting a new feature: Countdown to Bird Week! Join in as they profile a new bird species for you to discover – highlighting the diversity and beauty of Vancouver‘s local birds.
To launch Bird Week, SPES will be hosting a Bird Week Take-off Celebration on May 11th centered around the Nature House on Lost Lagoon. Bringing together bird enthusiasts and the bird curious,
visitors can create bird-themed crafts, learn how to spot common backyard birds, and take some Instagram worthy shots with our feathery photo wall. The Take-Off will also feature the return of the popular Bird Parade many will remember from Vancouver International Bird Festival last year. Occurring on World Migratory Bird Day, the original inspiration for Vancouver Bird Week, this Take-off Celebration is the perfect way to wet your beak for more bird fun!
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Check out the website for more information on Countdown to Bird Week, the Take-Off Celebration and other activities hosted across the Lower Mainland during Vancouver Bird Week! Happy birding!
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| Vancouver's urban forest includes every tree in our city - on streets, in parks, public spaces, and backyards! The Park Board tree sale is intended for Vancouver residents to enhance our urban forest. Since 2010, 125,854 trees have been planted! Starting Tuesday, April 30, $10 trees are available online for purchase.
Please keep in mind Vancouver households are eligible to purchase up to 3 trees in total. Purchases of more than 3 trees per household will be refunded.
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| Urban agriculture creates vibrant gathering spaces, increases biodiversity, supports local food resiliency and promotes social inclusion. There are many spaces in Vancouver that could be ideal for urban agriculture. To better support and enable urban agriculture, we are inviting you to share your ideas, identify, establish, and steward potential new locations for 2020.
Community groups or individuals interested in starting new urban agriculture initiatives can submit an expression of interest.
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Volunteering in our parks? Remember to Make It Count! Use the forms below to track and record the growth of your events and community involvement. If you host numerous events a month, please contact us at parkstewards@vancouver.ca to receive the Stewardship Tracker spreadsheet.
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Park Partners Use the link below to keep track all of your stewardship, education, and research events!
| Park Stewards Use the link below to record your hours of involvement and activity in our parks!
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Colour Me Local Dye Garden Work Party Where Renfrew Ravine Park, Renfrew Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description This garden is full of plants which support pollinators and our Colour Me Local natural dye programs at the Alder Eco-Arts Hub (Slocan Park Fieldhouse). Everyone is invited to help weed, water and maintain the garden, and it is a great chance to learn (or show off) gardening skills, meet neighbours, and enjoy the spring time. Come find out what plants you can grow in the Pacific Northwest to make colour!
Date: May 8th
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location Renfrew Ravine Park at Renfrew Street and 24th Avenue | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Vancouver Bird Week Where Metro Vancouver Description Visit Vancouverbirdweek.ca to see all the different events happening throughout Metro Vancouver! | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Everett Crowley Park Work Party Where Entrance/Parking for Everett Crowley Park Trails, Kerr Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description The Everett Crowley Park Committee (ECPC) is hosting our next stewardship event on Saturday, May 11th. Come out to meet new people and help remove Himalayan Blackberry at a local Vancouver park.
Date: Saturday, May 11th, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: Everett Crowley Park (meet at the parking lot on Kerr St)
Gloves, tools and refreshments will be provided. Please dress appropriately for the weather and wear sturdy, close-toed shoes. If you are running late to the event, check the park signboard, as we will post a map/directions to our work area.
Feel free to get in contact with us if you have any questions or would like more information at:
twitter: @ecpcstewards
MeetUp: https://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Environment-Meetup/
Hope to see you there! | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Jericho Park Tour Where Jericho Beach Park, Point Grey Road, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description Come visit Jericho Park on Saturday, May 11 from 10:00 AM to 11:30AM and learn about its history -- human and natural. We'll have a look at various bird habitats in the park, including the shoreline, the ponds, meadows, and deciduous woodlands. We will also look at areas where volunteers have been removing invasives and planting native trees and shrubs. Along the way we can discuss how best to preserve natural areas in a crowded city.
Meet at the bridge over the pond (near east side of Park) | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Secrets of a Temperate Coniferous Forest. Where Trailhead at Spanish Banks Beach, NW Marine Drive Description On this beautiful forest walk we will see how the components of a typical second-growth temperate forest consisting of both native and non-native plants are competing for survival to produce a functional but ever-changing whole. We will also look at the work done in restoration of Spanish Creek, one of four “lost” streams of Vancouver City brought back to life for salmon spawning.
This is a free, public, interpretive botany field trip for Salmonberry Days of the Dunbar Residents Association. No registration required.
Trip leader: David Cook, Biologist
Date: Sunday, May 12th
Meeting time and duration: 10:00 am. Approximately 3 hours.
Meeting place: Trailhead at Spanish Banks Beach, NW Marine Drive. See Pacific Spirit Regional Park map at: http://www.hr.ubc.ca/health/files/Pacificspiritmap_1.pdf
The Spanish Banks Trail is Trail No. 23 on the map.
Contact
David at cookeco2@yahoo.com or 604-924-0147 if you have any questions. | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Jericho Park May Work Party Where W 4th Avenue and NW Marine Drive, Vancouver Description Join Jericho Stewardship Group's March work party on May 12th from 9:30AM – 12:30PM!
• What we'll do
We will be removing overgrown invasive plant from the growing native plants in our parks.
Come join us in helping make sure that Jericho Beach Park remains a healthy ecosystem for Vancouver!
Meet at the bridge between the duck ponds.
• What to bring
Please bring sturdy shoes, and water. Tools and snacks will be provided.
• Important to know
The weather will be cold so dress for the weather!
Learn more at: https://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Environment-Meetup/events/calendar/ | | Add To Calendar | | |
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5th & Pine Pollination Stewardship Event Where 1696 W 5th Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1N8, Canada Description Become a steward of Fifth and Pine pop-up park!
On Thursday, May 16th from 5:00pm to 7:00pm the Park Board will host a community stewardship event. We will tidy up the space and build on the existing pollinator habitat with more flowering plants and grasses. Come by for a few minutes, an hour, or the whole event. Bring your friends!
Be prepared: Rain or shine: Please dress for the weather.
What to bring: We have gloves and tools for everyone, but if you have favourite gardening gloves or tools, please bring them along. We’ll also have light refreshments to share.
Register by email to participate: parkstewards@vancouver.ca | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Geology of the Vancouver area as seen in Jericho Beach Park and along Kitsilano Beach. Where Jericho Beach Park Description What you will see: The tide will be low and after a brief sortie in Jericho Beach Park we will walk east looking at the rocks and landscape features both along the Kitsilano Beach foreshore and what we can see across Burrard Inlet. We will see coal-bearing sandstones with leaf fossils laid down by 40 million year old rivers; giant boulders brought south by glaciers from their source as far away as Squamish and stranded here 12000 years ago by the retreating ice; a volcanic dyke, evidence of 32 million year old volcanic activity; and how unceasing wave action is slowly eating away the beach frontage. Looking around Burrard Inlet, we will observe rocks and land forms that were created over the last 100 million years by plate tectonics, sea-level changes and ice movement.
The route along the beach is somewhat uneven and rocky, so wear appropriate non-slip footwear
that may get wet from the sea water left by the retreating tide.
This is a free, public event for Salmonberry Days of the Dubnar Residents Association. No registration required.
Date: Saturday, May 18th
Time and duration: 11:00AM | Approximately 3 hours
How do you get there?: This event will commence from the parking lot at the far west end of Point Grey Road (which is a cul de sac ending at the eastern boundary of Jericho Beach Park. Do not end up in the parking lot on the west side of Jericho Beach Park.
Contact David at cookeco2@yahoo.com or 604-924-0147 if you have any questions.
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Colour Me Local Dye Garden Work Party Where Renfrew Ravine Park, Renfrew Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description This garden is full of plants which support pollinators and our Colour Me Local natural dye programs at the Alder Eco-Arts Hub (Slocan Park Fieldhouse). Everyone is invited to help weed, water and maintain the garden, and it is a great chance to learn (or show off) gardening skills, meet neighbours, and enjoy the spring time. Come find out what plants you can grow in the Pacific Northwest to make colour!
Date: May 22nd
Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location Renfrew Ravine Park at Renfrew Street and 24th Avenue | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Still Creek Streamkeepers Meeting and talk by Elmer Rudolph, President of Sapperton Fish and Game Club Where 2750 East 29th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description Interested in the Health of Still Creek and the Renfrew Ravine? Join the Still Creek Streamkeepers for our monthly public meeting and a talk and discussion with "salmon hero" Elmer Rudolph. Rudolph has worked for decades in restoring the Brunette River with the Sapperton Fish and Game Club, making it possible for salmon to return. We are excited to learn from someone with his experience, care and dedication for salmon and watersheds.
Date: May 27th
Time: Meeting: 6:30 PM to 7:00PM
Talk and Discussion: 7:00PM to 8:30PM
Locaiton: Slocan Hall | | Add To Calendar | | |
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Building Community in Your Community Gardens Where Little Mountain Neighbourhood House, Main Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada Description This is an invitation for community garden members and organizers to meet, share your successes, lessons learned and how we can collaborate to build community in our community gardens.
Please bring materials to the meeting you would like to 'show and tell' and share. This will be our second meeting as part of developing our city-wide community garden network.
Date: May 30th
Location: Little Mountain Neighbourhood House (3981 Main Street, Vancouver)
Time: 6PM to 9PM
Please RSVP at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/building-community-in-your-community-garden-tickets-61166841670
The event is hosted by the Riley Park Community Garden in partnership with the Park Board. To learn more about Riley Park, visit our website (rileyparkgarden.org), sign up for our newsletter and check out the Event Calendar.
For more information on the Meet Up - contact Joanne at
joanne_mackinnon@lmnhs.bc.ca
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