On Saturday, June 11, come join the Cowichan Land Trust and help clean up the Cowichan Valley Trail along Holmes Creek. We will have volunteers starting at both the Skinner Road trailhead and the trailhead at Sherman Road near Lane Road. This is a high traffic area for local residents and students, and is littered with garbage. We want to clean it up!

NANAIMO, B.C., Environment Canada Press Release

November 3, 2010

The Honourable Jim Prentice, Canada's Environment Minister, today announced funding from the EcoAction Community Funding Program for a new environmental project in the Cowichan Valley, in British Columbia. $85,308 in federal funding will support local action to reduce pollution, improve air and water quality, and protect wildlife and natural habitat.

We are currently working on two stewardship projects, the Friends of Cowichan Creeks project and the Quamichan Watershed project. We are also working on a land acquisition project for Sansum Point and a Cowichan Estuary Interpretive Nature Centre.

Friends of Cowichan Creeks

Natural History creek brochures are now available for order from the Cowichan Community Land Trust office.

Our natural heritage.Historical and ecological stream information has been collected from government databases and long time residents and used to develop stream specific information brochures.

Brochures are available on the following Cowichan Valley creeks:

Shawnigan, Porter, Rocky, Averill, Stocking, Bonsall, Garnett, Somenos, Bings and Richards Creeks.