| July 18, 2011 10:00 am | to | July 19, 2011 3:00 pm |
Fin Clipping
We’ll be doing fin clipping at our Noons Creek Hatchery and we need lots of volunteers on Monday, July 18th from 10am – 3pm and Tuesday, July 19th from 9am – 3pm.
| September 10, 2011 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 11:00 am |
The Port Moody Ecological Society will again be taking part in the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Register online (one person per group / family) by searching ’Shoreline Park from Noons Creek to Old Mill’ at http://shorelinecleanup.ca/en/search/cleanups/fall2011
Saturday, September 10th from 9am – 11am. Give ten minutes or two hours of your time to help us keep Noons Creek and the estuary clean. Families welcome – no age limit !
Please bring your own gloves and boots, and wear clothing that can get dirty and possibly wet. We will supply the garbage bags.
For information, please contact Sandra Niven on 778-861-1972.
| May 7, 2011 | ||
| 11:00 am | to | 3:00 pm |
Volunteering is Fun
Please consider volunteering with us for our upcoming Fingerling Festival on May 7th – click here for more details. It’s a fun, free, family event. The community helps us to release 40,000 young salmon into Noons Creek for their four year journey at sea. Over 50 environmental organisation attend and exhibit their work. Games, crafts, lots of fun !
To volunteer, please contact us at hatchery@noonscreek.org or call 778-861-1972. Orientation session for those that have not been to the hatchery before will be held on Saturday, April 30th, 2011, at 9am. Not compulsory.
Fun, Fun, Fun ! We love our volunteers !
| May 7, 2011 | ||
| 11:00 am | to | 3:00 pm |
| May 7, 2011 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 11:00 am |
When you turn on your tap and clean, safe water comes out do you ever stop to think about how it gets there and who brought it to you? The BC Water & Waste Association and Province of BC have officially proclaimed Drinking Water Week 2011. We invite you to celebrate this exciting week by taking time to think about your water and how you can conserve it. Here in B.C. we often take our tap water for granted, but it is a finite resource that we should value and protect. Although the expenses may not be apparent to all of us, the costs and energy required to deliver water to our taps, treat it to be safe and clean, and manage wastewater to safeguard the environment adds up to billions of dollars every year. Our water in B.C. is amongst the best in the world – let’s celebrate it and protect it!
Delicious tap water
We have provided activities and resources to help create awareness of our water, our water systems, and the people that make it accessible and safe. We invite you to use these resources, and pass them along to others. Many of our members are holding tours of their local reservoirs and treatment plants, and we encourage you to take the time to visit them.
Did You Know?
From the BC Water & Waste Association (BCWWA) website
Drinking Water
Metro Vancouver manages three large forested watersheds to provide Lower Mainland residents with a clean, reliable supply of high quality tap water. These mountain reservoirs are closed to the public as a primary means of safeguarding water quality. Every summer, we open the watersheds to the public by hosting bus and walking tours. Come and see for yourself what makes our drinking water world class!
These three and four-hour tours run from the end of July to September. Registration begins Wednesday, May 25h, 2011 – see Metro Vancouver’s website for details.
| March 22, 2011 | ||
| 8:00 am | to | 8:00 pm |
World Water Day 2011
| February 16, 2011 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:31 pm |
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
At the Annual General Meeting of the Port Moody Ecological Society on Wednesday evening, February 16, the guest speaker will be Dr. Andrew Trites from UBC whose team assembled the blue whale skeleton on display at the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Trites will talk about the endangered blue whale, the largest mammal on earth. Despite their massive size, the food they eat is miniscule. Blue whales feed by gulping large quantities of sea water and filter out tiny nutritious krill with their baleen. Once, blue whales were hunted almost to extinction but hunting in Canada ceased in 1966. Every spring and fall, a few blue whales still migrate past Vancouver Island. Trites, who is Director of the Marine Mammal Research Unit at the UBC Fisheries Centre, also carries out research on some Stellers sea lions which are kept at the Reed Point Marina in Port Moody. In his presentation, he will briefly describe this research which is focused on determining what these sea lions eat and how that might explain why their populations have essentially vanished in the Gulf of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. Following Trites’ presentation, Ashley Graham from the City of Port Moody will provide a brief description of the results of the fish inventory conducted in the Port Moody arm of Burrard Inlet this past year. The Port Moody Ecological Society, along with the Burrard Inlet Marine Enhancement Society and others, was a partner in this project.
This year, the Port Moody Ecological Society will be celebrating its 20th anniversary. The Society was established in 1991 under the direction of its founding President Rick Simpson, with the goals of raising both salmon and ecological awareness. In addition to rearing coho and chum salmon at their hatchery on Noons Creek, the Society offers school programs on Estuary Exploration and Salmon Science. It hosts the popular Fingerling Festival in Port Moody on the first Saturday of May at which children have an opportunity to release young chum salmon into Noons Creek. The meeting, free and open to the public, will be held at the Port Moody Recreation Centre (next to the City Hall/Library Complex) in Multipurpose Room 2 (upstairs and to the left). Doors open at 6:30 pm with refreshments; the meeting will commence with a short AGM at 7 pm followed by the guest presentations. For more information, see www.noonscreek.org or phone 604-937-3483
The public are invited to join our private tour of the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum on Saturday, February 26th, meeting at the museum at 10.45am. Car pooling may be available – please call Sandra on 604-931-6971 for details. Cost is $15 including the guide and taxes – children under 4 free.
| November 6, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 3:00 pm |
The Port Moody Ecological Society is proud to support this important event.
| March 26, 2011 | ||
| 8:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Celebrate Earth Hour with the Port Moody Ecological Society by joining us for an evening walk from our Noons Creek Hatchery to Rocky Point Park and back. Please bring a flashlight and warm clothes. 
Happy Thanksgiving