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Spiral Farm (Kootenay Permaculture)
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Ecological restoration with Slocan River Streamkeepers
Permaculture design with Kootenay Permaculture
Nursery, plant propagation, native plants and seeds
Homesteading and agroforestry at Spiral Farm
Sinixt territory, Slocan Valley, BC
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Beaver Dam Analog (BDA)
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This B.C. group imitates beavers to restore wetlands after devastating wildfire
It’s an effort to both replicate and bring back an animal that’s impeccable at one job - building dams. As the Radio-Canada’s Julien Latraverse explains, it’s key to restoring wetlands after devastati...
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January 9, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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The Conservation Ledger
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The conservation ledger: What we lost and what we gained in 2025
Extinction is rarely a moment. It is a process that unfolds offstage, marked by missed sightings, thinning records, and the slow reassignment of hope to footnotes. Discovery, too, is rarely a moment. ...
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January 8, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Galiano Island, BC
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FARM JOB: Galiano Island, B.C. - Galiano Conservancy Food Forest, Sustainable Food Systems Technician - Young Agrarians
Galiano Conservancy Food Forest in Galiano Island, B.C. is seeking a Sustainable Food Systems Technician!
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January 8, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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Major conservation of B.C. forestry land totalling 45,000 hectares announced | CBC News
The Nature Conservancy of Canada says Kootenay Forest Lands, located in southeastern B.C., is among the country's largest private land conservation projects to date. It becomes part of a network of pr...
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January 8, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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The Beaver Institute
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Beaver Institute | Home
Advancing Beaver Management and Watershed Restoration. Learn More About Beavers, Get Beaver Help, and Professional Info available from the Beaver Institute.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Global Earth Repair Convergence 2026
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About the Global Earth Repair Convergence - Global Earth Repair Foundation
Join us May 9–13 for a hybrid convergence and festival at Fort Worden and online! Unite to green the planet and cool the climate—subscribe for updates!
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January 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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The Genius of Trees by Harriet Rix review – how trees rule the world
The story of how the Earth, and human beings, have been shaped more than we know by these forces of nature
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January 4, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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The Last Forests Project - A Story of Northern California's Kelp Forest Ecosystem Collapse
YouTube video by Marco Mazza
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December 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Here's a shot I got in May of a Cliff Swallow colony on the central coast. There were so many nests I lost count and I can't wait to get back there in 2026!

#Birds #Photography #Nature
Photograph of a Cliff Swallow colony
December 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Are you draining aquifers or replenishing them? Most people are in the former category.
keithdjohnson.bsky.social Keith D Johnson❌👑🇺🇦💚#TerraformEarth1st @keithdjohnson.bsky.social · Oct 2
How'd you like to be the person(s) referred to when the local springs, dry for decades, finally come back to life? You & your friends could be...if they were focused.
How to Rescue a Sinking Water Table
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December 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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New wetland oasis created in South Downs National Park - South Downs National Park
Six hectares of much-needed wetland for wildlife has been created following the realignment of a rare chalk stream. The restoration of the Cockshut Stream, near Lewes, has seen the area quickly become...
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December 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Nature
November 4, 2025
December 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Food Forest Podcast: John D. Liu – How to create food forest communities
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Food Forest Podcast: John D. Liu – How to create food forest communities
YouTube video by Commensalist | Future proof landscape design
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December 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Rewilding is simply a way of giving life a fighting chance.

France’s largest rewilding project, by @mongabay.com
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France’s largest rewilding project
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. He has spent much of his life in the shadow of the Dauphiné Alps in ...
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December 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees | Full Film | TVO Original Documentary
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December 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Is a River Alive?
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Author Robert Macfarlane asks 'is a river alive?'
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December 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I invite you, my friends, my neighbors, my readers, my fellow citizens into a new movement called Plant Baby Plant, a grassroots movement of people taking meaningful, regenerative action to care for the Earth.
—Robin Wall Kimmerer

PLANT BABY PLANT: plantbabyplant.com

#PlantBabyPlant #Resist
Photo of Robin Wall Kimmerer smiling, surrounded by asters and goldenrods, flowering purple and yellow. From the new website for PLANT BABY PLANT. Plant Baby Plant is a new grassroots movement led by Robin Wall Kimmerer that invites people to reimagine our shared future through acts of care for the living world. Raise a garden, raise a ruckus! Resistance, guided by plants. www.plantbabyplant.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Beaver Believers: How to Restore Planet Water
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Beaver Believers: How to Restore Planet Water - Bioneers
In this age of global weirding where climate disruption has tumbled the Goldilocks effect into unruly surges of too much and too little water, the restoration of beavers offers ancient nature-based so...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman: How We’re Winning the Campaign to Rehydrate the West
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Kate Lundquist and Brock Dolman: How We’re Winning the Campaign to Rehydrate the West - Bioneers
Dive into the cognitive abilities of owls and what they can teach us about our own measures of intelligence.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Remembering and honouring Brewster Kneen
It is with profound sadness that we share the news of Brewster Kneen’s passing on December 1st at the age of 92.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Living willow wattle fences for riparian restoration !
Excellent when there are no beavers around.
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The Beauty of Lining a River With Willow
Greener than concrete and cheaper than stone, willow trees are finding new purpose as a stabilizing force along the banks of Midwestern rivers.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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The US could regreen its aridlands but it's been so long since it's been green (seriously, there were WAY more rivers before beavers & megafanuna got massacred) that history has forgotten / overlooked practices that replenish watersheds & water tables. It's doable.
The Great Green Wall and Large-Scale Permaculture in Action with Andrew Millison | TGS 178
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December 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Robin Wall Kimmerer: The Land Loves You Back
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Robin Wall Kimmerer: The Land Loves You Back
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December 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Wetland Restoration Project in BC
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Goulden Thurston Wetland Restoration Project in the Slocan Valley, BC
YouTube video by Slocan River Streamkeepers
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December 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Canary (2023) - Feature Documentary - Full Film
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Canary (2023) - Feature Documentary - Full Film
YouTube video by Oscilloscope Laboratories
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December 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM