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| ![](https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif) | Raegan Mallinson, CABIN Trainer / Living Lakes (lower right), with CABIN Field trainees Ella Swan, Jody Cliff and Megan Peloso, 2015
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Living Lakes Canada offering CABIN Field Training in Nelson, July 26-27th! Register now to get prerequisites done prior to field training! More information ...
Friends of Kootenay Lake Hiring a Program Manager! Also, Kootenay Lake Community Values Survey open to July 18th!
Lake Windermere Ambassadors looking for volunteers to help with Summer Splash!
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| ![](https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif) | Kim Green, Watershed Geoscientist, in her natural environment. |
Sustainable Watershed Balancing Act
Special Guest Blog from Kim Green, Watershed Geoscientist
The term 'sustainable watershed management' is being thrown around quite a bit these days and seems to mean different things to different people with different points of view. As a watershed geoscientist who has studied watersheds of the Columbia and Rocky Mountains for the past 20 years I have gained some insight regarding how watersheds work and for me, the term 'sustainable watershed management' implies the preservation of the key underlying physical processes in a watershed that govern water and sediment transport.
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CBWN/SGRC Mapping Program
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| ![](https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif) | GIS maps = data + location
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QGIS for Beginners: Richard Johnson of SWAMP and Slocan Lake Research Centre will be leading an introduction to GIS and the use of QGIS, a low-cost, open source mapping package. To learn more about QGIS, see the QGIS website. The course will be offered through Selkirk College CEWT, at the Nakusp Campus. Contact [email protected] for more information or to register . Email CBWN if you are interested in a different date or location.
Open Data: The Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre (SGRC) was awarded a major grant from Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council in April of this year to work with provincial and local governments to promote Open Data. For CBWN members, this should mean improved access to and use of provincial and local datasets to understand our watersheds. For details, see the Federal Innovation funding announcement here.
with the support of the Water and Environment Program of Columbia Basin Trust |
We are recruiting!
The Columbia Basin Watershed Network is recruiting a very special set of
volunteers to help us make the most of our Network. We are establishing three Advisory Committees, each with different responsibilities. The Science Advisory will link members to the scientific knowledge they need, the Watershed Education Advisory will help members to promote their watershed education and training and help members that need education and training, and the Network Advisory will work to build the strengths and capacities of the network.
If one of these areas is of special interest to you, please have a look at the description pages, and contact us to ask questions or to nominate yourself!
... contact Tara if you would like to volunteer with the Network
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Aquatic Invasives news and updates
Stops are required with any watercraft including SUPs, kayaks and canoes.
Please consider renting a watercraft if you will be travelling outside of British Columbia, instead of traveling with yours.
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Events
For Event updates, please see our Events page on our website.
July 26-27, 2016 CABIN Field TrainingNelson BC Living Lakes Canada and Canadian Rivers Institute Visit Canadian Rivers Institute for more information and to register, or contact Raegan Mallinson of Living Lakes about the field course. September 28-30, 2016 Living Lakes Canada Water RallyVancouver BC September 27-30, 2016 Under Western Skies 2016: Water: Events, Trends, Analysis
Mount Royal University
Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
September 30 - Oct 1, 2016 Watersheds 2016: Building Capacity for Collaboration and Watershed Governance in BC
Vancouver, BC co-hosted by the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, the Canadian Freshwater Alliance, the Fraser Basin Council, and the First Nations Fisheries Council October 1, 2016 QGIS for Beginners Richard Johnson, SWAMP and Slocan Lake Research Center Selkirk College, Nakusp Campus Nakusp, BC September 30 - Oct 2, 2016 Glacier National Park Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network
Email us about your next event so we can share it here!
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