When: March 3, 2025 from 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Guest speaker Sheila Harrington will give a talk about her recently published book, Voices for the Islands- Thirty years of Nature Conservation on the Salish Sea which .
Voices for the Islands brings together the stories and experiences of those who rose to protect areas at risk within their island communities.The book is a fascinating compendium of stories chronicling the creation of local nature conservancies, and the people behind them, on seventeen islands on the Salish Sea from the 1990s to the present day.
SHEILA HARRINGTON is an author, sailor, and environmental advocate with a thirty-year career in the conservation field. She was the founding executive director of the LandTrust Alliance of BC (LTABC) from 1997 to 2011 and a director of the Lasqueti Island Nature Conservancy for more than twelve years. She is co-author of the bestselling Islands in the Salish Sea Community Atlas, a finalist for two BC Book Awards and third-place winner of the BC Historical Federation prize. She edited and published Positive Vibrations magazine in the 90s and Giving the Land a Voice, Mapping Our Home Places and the BC Kingfisher magazine in the early 2000s. She currently lives off-grid on Lasqueti Island.
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