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Location: Fraser Valley, Langley Project Summary
Overview This project will expand upon the success of our already successful Salmon Saturdays, further the Salmon in your Schoolyard program and increase the capacity for the Salmon in your Backyard program. Through Salmon in your Backyard LEPS outreaches to single family residents and townhouse owners, engaging citizens in understanding how daily practices affect salmon habitat, and encouraging behavioural change. Through Salmon in your Schoolyard LEPS engages the school community to create a common understanding that we are all connected to salmon and watersheds. Through Salmon Saturdays LEPS provides ongoing opportunity for citizen engagement in stream stewardship activities to raise community awareness and improve and enhance salmon habitats and watershed health. Each of the already existing components of the Langley Thinks Salmon project have the potential to be used by others basin wide, with LEPS acting as outreach agents, available to provide the training and resource connections for other community groups, municipalities, organizations etc to run these programs in their own watersheds. This project utilizes the concepts of community based social marketing, seeking to engage citizens in salmon friendly practices and providing opportunities for citizens to overcome barriers to behaviour change. Objectives Methods LEPS will engage teachers and students in curriculum-based Salmon in your Schoolyard workshops hosted in their schoolyards. In each workshop students rotate through stations focusing on aspects of salmon and watersheds, to create a common understanding that we are all connected to salmon and watersheds. Upon workshop completion students are moved to action through a stewardship pledge concept. LEPS will continue to work closely with experiential education partners in the Lower Mainland to test the ideas behind curriculum development. LEPS is creating a program that is accessible to school districts across the Fraser Basin, and will create an on-line learning resource including curriculum, resource lists, suppliers of materials, with the future possibility to create a kit (including full supplies) that could be rented out to other educators. Salmon Saturday events will continue for 2009, and may include: Salmon Saturdays will be packaged in a way that will make them transferable to other groups across the Fraser Basin through an on-line resource package, the ÔHow to Host a Salmon Saturday guidebook with step-by-step instructions to event coordination. Salmon in your Backyard engages citizens in understanding how their daily practices affect salmon habitat and encourages behavioural change. This is achieved through direct contact, newspaper articles, informational mail-outs, public workshops and distribution of prompts (stickers, signage for the home- created in 2008). LEPS offers free one-to-one site consultations to streamside landowners requesting advice and recommendations on habitat enhancement and protection. There is potential for expansion of this program to include broader sustainable living consultations.
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