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Just

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on a beautiful day

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in mid-September and unusual gathering is
taking place in seminar and British Columbia.

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Local school children senior citizens and

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foreign exchange students First
Nations ranchers farmers foresters

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naturalist groups fisheries
biologists developers

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politicians the list goes
on What\'s the occasion.

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What is it that is barred people have

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such different ages backgrounds
and interests together.

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Well believe it or not they are
here to celebrate their watershed.

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To appreciate how this
extraordinary event has come

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about we have to know a little
about the region and its history

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from the mouth of the Fraser River on
the Pacific Ocean to seminar and at

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the southwest corner of two-swap lake it\'s

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a journey of about a thousand
kilometers by water.

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Maybe more. Yet every year for
as long as anyone can remember

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salmon in huge numbers have made this journey
to reach spawning beds in the Salmon River.

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Until recently. Well the salmon\'s
still come But in far fewer numbers.

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Changes in the watershed in recent decades
have not been kind to the salmon.

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Or more particularly to the habitat
they need in order to reproduce.

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Water quantity has declined partly due to
irrigation demands for local agriculture and

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ranching water quality has
suffered from sedimentation due to

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erosion from increased temperature as a
result of removing the riverbank tree canopy.

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And from the mindless pollution
of people who gave no thought to

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the consequences of their actions
the changes were obvious to

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everyone but among the first to
decide that the time had come

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to do something about it was
Mary Thomas a respected

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elder of the shoe swap nation who was born
and raised that seminar When I began to

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see the water going getting less and less

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every year a fish struggling
to get up that river.

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It really made me feel that we\'re losing

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something and I guess my son
was well he\'s counselor and

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between Hema lie we began to
talk about this concern that we

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had and I said you know we we we have to

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do something with God or act now but

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I was afraid because of I\'m a
native woman were both native.

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Who would listen to us Anybody
that would listen to a house.

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So by chance Louis met Dorothy
Arjun whose um town council to

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the only woman on Town Council and we
have a really good working relationship.

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She understands where we\'re
coming from and through her.

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This whole thing is just mush road
and something just beautiful.

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I think we we just
provided a body to kick it

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off very quickly at the very
beginning when many people came.

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We we really are

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a Salmon River Watershed roundtable

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I don\'t think when we started the process
we didn\'t say Well now let\'s form a

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roundtable in our community and we\'re going

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to have this goal that we\'re going
to restore the watershed it didn\'t

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start that way we were just concern people

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that knew we had problems and let\'s
talk about it we didn\'t really have

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a goal or a destination in mind when we

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started and it was decided
that we shouldn\'t because at

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the very beginning if we
feel that we\'re pressured

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now to make these decisions
then we could have ended up in

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confrontation We wouldn\'t
have taken the time to do

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the kind of bonding we have to count
the kind of respect that I think is

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present within that group and so
I think that was a critical step

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and with the attention to grassroots
involvement and participation.

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It just evolved and all of a sudden we
realized oh we\'ve done we formed around

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table Eric Mitchell of the open
organ band remembers that at

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the very first meetings
of the watershed group

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he and his people proceeded very carefully.

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So what I told some of the people that were

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there at the beginning right at the very
beginning and along the way a few times.

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Was that I wanted them if they were

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a government official Lake Department of
Fisheries and Oceans or Ministry of Environment

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or or what label ever they had you

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know that we didn\'t want them
to come to the table as as

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a representative of the government in in
in that way per se but we wanted them

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there first to be a person that was

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truly interested from
the heart about helping

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the salmon and about helping the water
we\'re on our second year now and

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there\'s you know two people that
didn\'t have it in their heart or

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not here But the ones the ones
that really mean what they

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are saying there\'s still
sticking with us when we

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first started and I started
to realize how complex

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this issue is I mean I\'ve been in
school for 2.5 years learning about

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watersheds myself when I
realized the complexity.

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I thought. Can we do this I mean are we

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just sitting at this table wishful
thinking that we\'re going to get

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all of these stakeholders
together and everything\'s

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going to work out and
as time went on and we

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listened and I saw what started happening
within the group I know we\'re going

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to Two and a half years later Dorothy
origins confidence is bearing fruit.

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This watershed celebration
has helped the community

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recognize that there are
common long-term interests

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far outweigh the competition
and conflict which

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had marked and in crucial
ways marred the past.

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There is now a sense of how only interest
groups in the watershed can work

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together for the wisest possible future

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and the interesting thing
about this process is that

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it\'s really driven by the community and therefore
you have the government groups you have

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the native leaders you have
everyone participating as it\'s

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not a process that\'s being
driven by a specific agency.

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Because if it\'s driven by
for example are Our agency.

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Our responsibility rests with
Crown Land and so we have

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really no links to private land but
because it involves arrangers and they\'re

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participating in a process because
it involves the native community in

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the reserve lands we can actually have
a real watershed plan where you\'re

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not just looking at a component of

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the Washington you can look
at the NB entire watershed.

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The watershed celebration includes field trips
to landowners properties along the river.

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Participants looked at various
techniques used to stabilize

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the river banks the importance of
re-establishing tree cover to provide shade

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the need to control cattle access and many

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other factors that affect the health
of the river and its watershed

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That night the celebration continues

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salmon arms Mayer talks of how an
environmental disaster has been inverted

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the regional member of parliament expresses

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amazement about what can
happen when a community

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decides to take its future into
its own hands the Salmon River.

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Before the community of salmon arm
was here and settlements came was

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probably one of the most prodigious
salmon rearing streams and the west coast

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and it is through the impact
of urbanization and the impact

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of agriculture that we because
of lack of foresight I guess.

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Had endangered that resource.

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Thankfully the foresight of

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Many individuals many stake players throughout
this community and other communities have

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taken upon themselves to
correct the damage that\'s

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done of course it never hurts to be reminded
that celebrations are supposed to be fun.

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These young people from
around the world I had

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a special dimension for the second year in a
row they have come to salmon arm to work on

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rehabilitation projects Over
the next two weeks there\'ll be

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working with the community building bank
stabilization structures planting trees and

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wetland vegetation and learning about
the many factors that need to be

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thought of to help the river
regain its health these

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might seem like small things but they make

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a difference just to allow my son
to my grandchildren some day maybe

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to go down the river and still
see healthy salmon coming up

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a clean river clean river
where you can go in and

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drink out and not you know a few years ago

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I you know I wouldn\'t want to
drink out of it now This year is

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actually not that I think the rivers scene
what we\'re trying to do in this helped

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Minnesota mental agriculture presents
severe challenges so the task of

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watershed management chemical pesticides
herbicides and fertilizer is associated with

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crop production and waste
products associated with

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livestock and dairy operations are
powerful environmental agents.

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Unless they\'re well
managed their impacts on

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the water quality of a region
can be devastating in fact a

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recent U.S. study identified agriculture as

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the major polluter are by
far of American Rivers.

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However there are encouraging
signs Many modern

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farmers are reexamining their
practices and becoming leaders in

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the field of environmental management
in Ontario the bombing industries

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environmental farmland chose a broad
understanding of the problems and recommend

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some imaginative ways of dealing with it

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now one of the problems
associated with livestock.

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Looks like this when

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cattler allowed unrestricted access to
streams for drinking the results can

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be destructive in a number of
ways the trampled banks lose

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their plant cover and become degraded
resulting in soil loss and erosion.

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The channel becomes wider
and shallower causing

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water temperatures to rise Which
limits the ability of fish and others

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dream life to survive and of
course when the animals relieve

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themselves directly into the stream
bacteria levels begin to climb.

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Many farmers are now using imaginative
systems which provide their cattle with

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all the water they need without
requiring direct access to the stream.

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On this farm water from ahead pond is
being piped to a sister which uses

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a simple float valve to regulate flow

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and the cattle seem more than
happy with the arrangement.

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This curious looking device is a
nose pump it does a great job of

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providing water on-demand and once
again the cattle shows no sign

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of having trouble using it Systems such as

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these allow farmers to use fencing
which need not be expensive

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to keep cattle out of the stream
credit valley conservation biologist

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Bob Morris explains that not only is that

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good for the health of the stream
but it\'s good for the cattle.

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One of the problems often especially not

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just with creeks but wetlands
is there\'s actually a danger

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to the cattle in the wetlands
either getting caught up in the in

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the swampy muddy areas are
losing him in the woods.

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So a lot of times this
solves two problems at once

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Bob\'s experience in the watershed
gives him a good perspective on how

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farmers are incorporating
environmental concerns into

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their day-to-day operations It probably
relates to what\'s farmers are seeing

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the actual environmental problems and then
they take the time to educate themselves

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were others their
operations are going along

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fine they don\'t realize some
of the damage is occurring.

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Those are the farmers.

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We need the target and educate dawn lob is

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one farmer who has spent more than
30 years educating himself and

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others he has been studying
and applying new ways to make

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his operation both more efficient as
well as more environmentally friendly.

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By the 160s he began to become aware
that many routine practices of

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modern agriculture clearing
trees maximizing acreage in

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production increased tillage And so
on were in fact degrading the soil.

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Traditional field preparation
involving plowing and

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spring and fall results in
a great deal of soil loss.

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Most of that soil ends up in streams and
waterways and contributes to their degradation.

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Both the farm and the
environment are the losers.

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Don began at first to
experiment with greatly

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reduced ploughing or low Tilly
And ultimately moved to

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a system of no tillage at all or
no till as it is called he found

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his crop yields were

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as good and better than before and soil
runoff from his fields was greatly reduced.

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He also built a series of
earthwork dams or berms which

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delay whatever run off there is and release
it slowly into his drainage system.

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Other measures included
extensive tree-planting

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which reduced wind erosion
and moisture loss due to

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evaporation as well as creating
habitat for wildlife and

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birds which operators natural
pest-control agents.

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He also decided to take marginal
land out of production And by

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planting it with trees and place it
in reserve for future generations.

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What\'s really important
to recognize is that

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these management practices
are as sound financially.

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As they are environmentally.

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I guess I\'m interested
in soil conservation.

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Because first of all because
I believe that each of

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us come to this world with a
responsibility to leave it

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a better place if I owned it I think that\'s

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a pretty basic responsibility that
we need to address and I have found

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that in the process of developing a
conservation firm plan for my farm and

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implementing it It hasn\'t cost me money to

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do that it\'s actually made farming
more profitable and more interesting.

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Although not directly related to

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his crop production he recognized that
the health of a stream flowing through

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his property could be
improved after a program

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of planting trees and shrubs to
reduce the water temperature.

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I\'m doing in stream work
to create pools and

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ripples which aerate the water
and improve Fish Habitat.

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Here\'s what the screen looked
like only 5-years ago.

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Here\'s what it looks like today

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Niagara crop soybeans for which
your vegetable oil is produced

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I have to manage the soil so Luddite Odeon

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and causing the quality of the water
below that crop to be degraded because

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that\'s where your drinking water comes from

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the drinking water that is used for
making your soft drinks for for

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drinking at the table and why does it
comes from your tap it\'s coming from

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the ground and whether
we farm or whether we

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have cited a cottage with

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an inappropriate septic system or whether
we have an industrial site where or oil or

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some other contaminants being spilled on the
ground we all need to be concerned about

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how we manage the The products that

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are under our control are
the practices that we carry

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because it impacts on the
quality of water that we have

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now and also on the quality of
water that\'s can be there for

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future generations a major spill
can take on off a long time to

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clean up one of the problems of managing

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our groundwater is that most people have

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very little understanding of what it
is many are surprised to learn that.

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Outside the larger urban areas.

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Most if not all our water comes from

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underground aquifers 70% of the water
in the air stream is groundwater.

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Only a few decades ago even professionals had
little idea The intricate connections how

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subterranean water who has a field of study
called hydro-geology what is groundwater.

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Why is it important and
what do we have to do to

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protect it these three questions
are being energetically and

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entertaining Lee examined
at an exciting initiative

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called the children\'s groundwater
Institute which organizes

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DeLong groundwater festivals
in an atmosphere of fun with

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more than 14 activities enters each illustrating
some aspect of the crucial water cycle.

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Children learn as they play.

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Basically the philosophy of the
children\'s brownwater Festival is

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one of education what we are
interested in educating

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youngsters But we\'re also
interested in educating

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them in a fun way we feel
that it goes hand and hand.

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Our philosophy is to try
and reach ultimately

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every grade 456 child

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in Canada and we feel that if we
concentrate at that age level.

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First of all we can educate
youngsters effectively

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at that age level there\'s still
willing to learn and then we found

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that they go home and they
share their experiences with

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their family with their parents
and ultimately if we keep this up

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for a period of time we hope
that these youngsters who

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will know a lot more about water
and the environment will go

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on to Behave in a much
different way than we did

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when we reacted and we were brought up
by its third year of existence it has

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blossomed into an event involving more
than 2 thousand grade school students

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several 100 volunteers many of whom are
in senior high school and some ingenious

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educational hands-on demonstrations that
create a day of laughter curiosity and

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learning from the effects different types of
ground surface have on precipitation runoff.

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To the potential for waste
in domestic plumbing.

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To getting a real sense of how much water
measured in buckets the average household uses

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to computer simulations
of weather patterns and

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water budgets A day to
remember for the future.

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The institute plans several of
these festivals every year and

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eventually I have I have this
dream about the fastball.

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And what it is is taking the festival
across the country from east

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to west utilizing a train
and actually loading

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all of our material onto
a train starting at

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the East Coast And making stops
at every little village and town

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along the way and sharing all
of all of this wealth of

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knowledge that we built up now with
youngsters right across Canada.

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I\'ve worked on this project
on behalf receiver and

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I\'ve indicated to my boss that if
CB wouldn\'t give me the time off to

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go to this one weakness will I take

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my own time it\'s almost spiritual
when you\'re there and you

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see all these youngsters running around

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the site against all this
knowledge understanding.

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Water and understanding the
environment to a degree

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that you wouldn\'t ever believe it
is very spiritual as far as I\'m

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concerned that same spirit
of enthusiasm and commitment

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Driving community initiatives right across
the country in metropolitan Vancouver.

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There\'s a small waterway
which remarkably is still

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the home of a wild salmon run
it\'s called Muslim creak

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a dynamic volunteer group is working
to ensure that future generations of

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Vancouver rates will still be able to witness
the spectacle of the annual migration.

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These volunteers come in all ages.

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Each with their own personal
perspective is it a large project.

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Well it\'s a drop in the bucket
and the list of priorities is

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very low but it is important
and if people can afford

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to put some time in I want to have a
positive effect the Fraser is one of

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the world\'s most important
salmon ribbons logging

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agricultural and urban impacts on
the rivers ecology are staggering.

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The Fraser River estuary management
program frame is an ambitious attempt to

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address those impacts and to support
projects to rehabilitate the resource and

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change the way people
interact with the river

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the marshes and the Fraser\'s estuary
Our critical staging points in

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the salmon\'s annual migration
habitat degradation Here is

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a serious limiting factor in determining how
many young salmon or Smoltz we\'ll make it

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out to see you in a
healthy condition and at

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the other end of their life
cycle how many will be able to

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rest here in preparation for the ordeal

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of their upstream odyssey
to wheat spawning grounds.

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Once again these initiatives depend on Hardy
volunteers cherry slack is one of them.

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My family came over in 1947 and we

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started fishing log salvaging gold
wherever I am a boat builder I\'ve done

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a lot of large wooden boats on the
co-styrum master ship right so I got

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interested in now i\'ve just about semi

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retired so as a terrorist both time you
put something back into the phishing.

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You\'ve you\'ve made your your muddy
from fishing so now\'s the time to

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put some volunteer work back into
the industry so that\'s what I am

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concerned as modeled by family
thing it\'s a great a great idea

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because we\'ve all I can say I\'m
repeating myself we\'ve all earned are

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living from the river and it\'s
about time to give something back

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the marsh Rehabilitation
Project is sponsored by

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the fisherman\'s union and the
T bunks Uzuki foundation.

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It draws its workforce from a variety of
community residents Working in teams may is

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a team coordinator who
understands the importance of

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listening to and involving all
segments of the community.

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Well we certainly see projects
like this as an opportunity

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for you know industry business
environmental groups fishers

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groups native and non-native
Fisher group to work

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together to protect and enhance
this resource so that there

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is enough for people to
go for everyone to have

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the headwaters of the Bow River in Alberta
rise on the East Slope of the Rocky Mountains

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one of the major impacts on
the river is the fact that as

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a mature stream it flows through the
center of downtown Calgary Bringing

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the right people in the
community together to voice

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their own concerns and listen
to the concerns of others is

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the guiding philosophy of

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the Bow River Water Quality Council Chris
Campbell is the council\'s executive director.

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One issue that I think is very

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important hopping and how society works
and and what are the benefits of

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these Council\'s is how
people work together but

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really anything you want to achieve
you can achieve if you get

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the right people at the table
the ones who can tour willing

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to listen and willing to make
a change the systems are just

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just contrivances and there\'s there\'s I

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believe that anything that you
within reason that you achieve

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considering everyone\'s needs is possible The
Annapolis River in Nova Scotia to look at it

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seems an idyllic stream flowing
through a serene pastoral landscape

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the fact is that in recent years

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coliform bacteria counts have
made it unsafe for swimming.

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These people engaged in water chemistry
sampling or volunteers of the

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clean the Annapolis river project
Carp they live on or near

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the river and decided to get
involved in this case to the extent

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of participating in training workshops to
learn how to carry out these procedures.

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Well we\'ve become involved when
they read it in the newspaper as

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matter of fact I thought since we lived on

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the river I mentioned that
the land that would be

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a good project for us to do since we
live right on the river we\'ve tested

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river because we knew
it was getting bad and

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I don\'t like the thoughts that you
can\'t swim in it are efficient and

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so on and so forth Stephen hobbled
is Karp\'s program director.

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He stresses the value of

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a nonconfrontational approach what we tried

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to do is not point fingers
and say you\'re doing

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something really rotten and measurable and
they shouldn\'t be doing that but rather

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to work with people fighting on

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the river or work on problems to
find constructive solutions that

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work and work is certainly
what Dara less baryons and

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some of his friends have done on the
hay River in Prince Edward Island

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They rolled up their sleeves and
put in some 6 thousand hours

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to restore brook trout habitat to
this and other small streams in

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the area just volunteers getting
together and clean up the river.

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Just this hair particular river here
and we got two or three more River

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where cleaned up and you can
just tell by looking in at

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their how much it cleaned up for
in the last year a few 100 miles

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away in Fredericton New
Brunswick David fold

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stir and his group are at work
on a much larger watershed.

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The great Saint John river.

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By organizing exhibitions and events celebrating
the rivers rich history there fostering

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a greater appreciation for the St.
John River as

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a heritage resource And as a
focus of community inspiration.

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Mainly I think we\'re talking
about stewardship just being

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sure that we invoke a very
high-quality of stewardship.

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On this river and I think if we do that
we cast our eyes half a century ahead.

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Will be well satisfied with what we\'ve

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gone by now it should be clear that the
central theme that weaves all these stories

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together is a simple one the water
resources of this country belong to

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us the future of those resources is
by in large up to us they will be.

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What we decide to make And when we

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decide to get involved and join with
others in our various communities

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the results I personally enriching in
many and often surprisingly in the past.

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Governments at a municipal provincial and
federal levels have all tried to regulate

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the water resource or some section of it

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as sustainable development becomes
more the philosophy that\'s applied.

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I think we\'re realizing that many of
the problems we\'re facing aren\'t.

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They\'re just not an appropriate topic
they\'re not an appropriate subject

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for regulation what you\'re working
at it\'s changing people\'s mindset

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And you\'re trying to change the way
they view the world they live in

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the way they respond to that world and
the way the exercise stewardship.

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Over their own property their own
lot there on woodlot there on farm.

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There on business and these
aren\'t areas in which

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government can successfully become involved
governments don\'t change people\'s outlook.

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They can control their their actions
to a certain extent but they can\'t.

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Fundamentally changed the way they
behave and a community group.

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Coming into a management
situation dealing with

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a management problem brings to that problem

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An unbiased position
they\'re not seen as coming

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in with a big sticks are not seen
as the regulator no one\'s afraid of

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what will happen next or the
controls that would be placed upon

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them the strength of the community
group that lives in peer pressure

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lies and encouragement lies in the fact

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that all your friends are doing
it so you\'ve got to be doing it

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to the work with the community at

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a community level on issues that mean something
to the community and through education.

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Time and peer pressure and the
communities full perspective on

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the resource changes and that\'s how I

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think we\'re going to be
successful in the long run Okay