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  Over Earth Day Weekend FOKLSS helped create three different beach cleanups and joined the Eco Society's Earth Day Parade in Nelson, BC. On Sunday, April 22nd we had over 100 volunteers join us in cleaning the beach at Kokanee Creek Park! One of the main concerns at...

On January 15, 2018, we hosted the second webinar in our 2017/2018 Creating a Blue Dialogue webinar season, Collaborative Consent and Revitalizing Indigenous Laws: Pathways to Indigenous Water Governance and Co-Governance with speakers Rosie Simms (POLIS Water Sustainability Project), Michael Miltenberger (North Raven), and Simon Owen (Indigenous Law...

Transcending Boundaries: A Guidebook to the Alberta-Northwest Territories Mackenzie Basin River Bilateral Water Management Agreement provides a detailed examination of one of the most comprehensive and progressive transboundary water agreements in the world. Through the Bilateral Agreement between Alberta and the Northwest Territories, signed on March...

Published On: October 31st, 2017 Author: Natasha Overduin, Susi Porter-Bopp, and Genevieve Layton-Cartier This report provides a record of the discussions that occurred at the BC First Nations Water Governance Roundtable, held in Smithers, British Columbia in Wet’suwet’en territories on June 28th and 29th, 2017. This roundtable was co-hosted...