Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary
1772 Millstream Rd V9B 6E4 Victoria, BC, Canada

Give the land back to Nature....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnbgWv8u32Q&t=104s

WATCH: UBC scientist Suzanne Simard locates a Mother Tree and explains how it is networked into ‘trees as far as you can see’ as well as other living species ‘almost metaphysically related.’ The five-minute video is by Dan McKinney with animation by Ben Jacques. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8SORM4dYG8&t=100s

Acknowledging the moon in respect for the WSÁNE traditional peoples on whose territory we live.

Help Us Celebrate Bob McMinn's 97th Birthday - https://mailchi.mp/mar/help-us-celebrate-bobs-97th-birthday As the founder of the Greater Victoria Greenbelt Society and our present chair his wise ways have been instrumental in the creation of the Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary. This is his latest project in a long legacy of supporting greenspaces in the Capital Regional District. All he wants for his birthday are charitable donations for the Nature Sanctuary so we can keep moving forward towards the completion of this exceptional project in his lifetime. Click Link to read more......

Cut Broom in Bloom @ Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary - https://mailchi.mp//cut-broom-in-bloom-mary-lake-nature-sa

Bring your mom to Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary for a lovely spring walk this Sunday.

Good article about the destruction nature of consumerism on the earth and the way forward for a different relationship between humanity and nature.

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees." Henry David Thoreau Psychology Today

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WSÁNEC native plant identification and uses. Thanks to Gardens at the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific and the PEPÁE HÁUTW Foundation. for this great information. https://drive.google.com//1svrdXN4UWvjBcmbMpYVpXVGeG/view

Todays guided walks are full but you can still enjoy the lovely day and flowing streams with a self guided walk for a $5 donation. Members can attend for free. https://www.facebook.com/events/2731231453781328?active_tab=about

Mary Lake Nature Sanctuary is part of the protection of the Millstream watershed as it sits almost in the middle of the watershed. The Millstream Fishway Project is a collaboration led by Peninsula Streams to restore fish habitat and reconnect critical salmon and cutthroat trout habitat that was disrupted by a culvert built during the construction of Atkins Road in Langford, BC. I thank all the project and funding partners and local, provincial and federal governments for com...ing together to repair this deficient infrastructure. The provincial government has a multi-ministry committee called the Fish Passage Technical Working Group. They have identified thousands of infrastructure deficiencies that are impairing wild salmon from reaching their spawning grounds just like this one, and they have designed upgrades to fix many of them. All we need now is the funding to do the work. We all want to see the return of the mighty wild Pacific salmon to our waters and our neighbourhoods and it is projects like the Millstream Fishway that will make that vision become reality. https://www.facebook.com/100005540793796/videos/1587014788159866/

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