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What were they looking
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We were separated
between different ones, the guy who did the treasure hunt, he did that by
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It was an area where
there was a lot of species and different habitat and stuff there. So it was pretty much ?what I can
see? so they would go and find it and ?hey what?s this?. [laugh] That was the
fun part for them. |
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I guess the surveying
would be the boring part. |
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[laughs] Then next week we would start 18
always for a good three weeks, we?re gonna be teaching the Tseycum band were we are from, we
would be teaching, forest, ecology, and um Streamkeepers, Shorekeepers, |
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wow |
that?s great |
And it?s gonna, it?s a
training for us in that we could? because we?re gonna be the ones that are
going to be training people for Shorekeepers, so it?s going to be experience
for us because we really haven?t spoken. |
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You have done it a fair
amount but you haven?t taught people yet. Wow, that?ll be great. |
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Once you get into it, |
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because you?ve all the
experience behind you now, once you start talking, |
yeah |
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you get into your own
stories about what you do, and all that kinda thing |
yeah |
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is what everyone wants
to hear. |
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Me I couldn?t ????
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So you think the
kids?ll be interested? |
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I think they would,
yeah, there is a group of seven from age twelve to fifteen years old, they
are on the cycle youth
summer program right now and we?ve kind of got them involved in a little bit
of what we are doing in this area.
Because they are our younger generation too and later on they are
going to continue on with Streamkeepers, and we?ll have some out there taking
care of those fish. Same with
the beach area. |
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Hopefully getting them
interested. |
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So you went through
training, like I?m new to this project so I am just finding out all the background
stuff that is going on? who did your training and what kind of things did you
have before? Like how, cuz I
don?t know anywhere, Do you have a science background or did you just have an
interest? |
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I had an interest and
it is pretty much learning hands on experience right now, we?ll be continuing
on with school in September, we?ll get to go to school 2 1/2 days a week, upgrading,
schooling there? Math, English.
Hopefully it will take us 1 1/2, 2 years then we will be able to
train, we will do a lot of side courses, workshops, meeting a lot of scientists,
learning more about eco (121) and stuff, just learning about things
that will help us. |
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Sounds like a great
program, just to be able to hang
out with scientists. |
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It is |
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You pick up so much
just being with them. |
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It started out like ?a
job? when we first started and it is just like a child, you know, grabbed our
interest and we were interested. It was a place where we grew up, the beach,
we were always down the beach when we were kids. We grew up in this area out in the forest, by the streams,
you know that was our little playground and stuff. Yeah, let?s go see what?s out here, wander around out
there, see what we can see y?know
There was eagles, there was hawks, little squirrels, y?know. All the little animals out there. |
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It?s just, It?s all
natural to me, I love the area, I love being outside. [laughs] What better
can you get. Stuart: Sounds pretty sweet. |
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Ian is the one that
brought in that we should be not just working, but work our way up and be
able to train people. At first
this year we thought we were just going to be doing the work. And he brought it on that we should
further our education and be able to supervise and train. |
What do you think,
obviously you think guys think that that?s pretty good. |
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I do. |
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It is a great
opportunity, with the Shorekeepers it is, there is a lot of people who are
interested in title, survey title, it is kind of going all over the world
there. [laughs] So many people are interested in it. Shorekeepers is coming out |
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It?s going to be
important more and more with all the restoration that is going to have to go
on. Shores and streams. So what kind of knowledge did you have
before you started about the stream. Y?know about the animals and stuff like
that? |
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I didn?t know too much
at all and they said we were going to be cleaning the creek, it was like Ohh,
OK we can take logs and everything all out o? there. You know it?s like we
didn?t know too much at all. [laughs] I figured we would take garbage and all
that out of there, but I learned a lot what has to stay in that creek and why
and how to protect and?. |
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Char and I spend a good
2 –2 1/2 weeks taking ivy, ivy off the trees so that the trees could
grow again. Instead of planting
a tree and waiting 30 years for it to come back or it to grow up. |
If it didn?t get choked
by the ivy first. Yeah, so that?s cool. So that was on..on? |
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Tseycum Creek |
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Tseycum Creek, right.
That?s a good idea, yeah, that stuff gets all over the place. |
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There was approximately
60 trees that we took it off.
Little trees to big trees |
Did you have to get
like ladders or just cut the roots off? |
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Just cut them off at
the bottom and pulled them off away from the tree, most of it. Most of it we just pulled off away
from the tree, and we cleared it away so it wouldn?t grow again. This year we saw what we missed. |
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[laughs] Oh great |
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see some green was
there but we got most of them |
Oh good, it must feel
satisfying? |
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[laughs] Then after
people finding out about that you could see them walking down our trail there
and they were starting picking ivy off the trees. |
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On West Saanich Road
there, interesting |
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Now you can see all the
ivy has brown leaves. |
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Oh, Right on |
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Glad people were
reading about us. |
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That?s great yeah |
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So how, like, do the
people in the village know what you are doing? |
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Yeah |
Do you get a lot of
support from them? |
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yeah, yeah [hearty laughter?] Yeah, we do |
That must feel good for
Chief Jacks too, he will be very proud of you guys. |
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Except the first
year (164)?? [couldn?t make this
out, but she was telling us about her son?s participation in the project..]
Last year, our second year working and all the summer helping us. Turned out just we at the beginning
of summer and next thing you know they were able to get a youth ??? so he was
able to work with us for the summer.
So he was out there with us doing the stream work and little bit of
the shorekeepers he was able to do that and go back to school the following
year and let everyone know what he did for the summer. Everyone was happy, [F; yeah]
everyone was happy for him here now because he is good artist Brian and Donna asked him to do a
logo for the Shorekeepers, he is a really good artist and everybody seen his
work. Everybody is happy for
him, cuz he like he?s he likes to go out and explore, he is fourteen, he
already had a good paying job for him already. He was all happy about that. |
that?s great. So he?s
working again this year? This
summer? |
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No, he is going to take
the summer off, he is going to do school work, a couple of grades he failed.
That?ll take some work. He?s got
school work for the summer. |
So did his school work
improve after he got involved the job?
Do you think it has an effect on that? |
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I think he did get
better in the science area because of the marine biologist. He was at that time he was really
into it. Now he is exploring,
the marine biologist moved back a bit. But He?s just exploring in different
kind of areas. Wants to become a
chef, he know he has to start off as a dishwasher first, he?ll get there.
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Start at the bottom and
work your way up. |
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What kind of artwork
does he do? |
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Everything, native art
and cartoon characters to dragons, everything |
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I would think the
environmental stuff he is doing for the creek would be good for his native
art because he will see what the environment is like |
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yeah |
Kristin Bill was the
first lady who was with us, when we first started. She is not here now.
But she did a drawing for us, and her drawings on T-shirts were the
first things we saw on the
creeks when we first started. It
was a dragonfly, frog, bulrush, fish. |
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Got all that on a
T-shirt. After him seeing all
that and y?know just trying to think of all the native designs and stuff that
he could use, he is just trying really to focus on what kind of logo he
shouls make for Shorekeepers because he was asked to do all those. |
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That is great, it is
exciting how things can spin off. |
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So is there anything
involved in the science that really kinda threw you for a loop or you found
hard to understand? I guess
stream keeper can get fairly technical. |
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I just find I am
skimming through, fast learning really fast. |
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It is pretty
straightforward |
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I am grateful to the
Streamkeepers. Everything was
all, we were all just doing a lot of work in the streams, doing the riffles,
spawning beds and everything. It
was all hard labour but it was easy to do, going through the manuals and
everything, everything just really fell into place. |