There was a familiar face behind the Wild Things Seafood booth at Manson’s Friday Market last week. In addition to being our former Regional Director, Noba Anderson’s family has a connection to Cortes Island that stretches back to 1978. So Cortes Currents asked Noba about the new business she is undertaking with Peter Schmidt.
Continue reading The Next Chapter: Wild Things SeafoodEditor’s note: Bull kelp grows from Alaska’s Aleutian Islands to Santa Barbara County in California. There is a lot of it around Vancouver Island, and in the waters off both Cortes and Quadra Islands.
Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
It’s not all doom and gloom for the rich underwater kelp forests in the southern Salish Sea struggling to weather increasingly warm oceans.
Some pockets of bull kelp vital for sea life off southern Vancouver Island and B.C.’s Gulf Islands are proving to be resilient to rising sea temperatures and marine heat waves, a new University of Victoria study has found.
Continue reading Rays of hope for kelp and climate in south Salish Sea
The first Rural Islands Economic Partnership (RIEP) Forum was held on Pender Island during 2019. They were forced to hold virtual events after COVID hit, but the 2023 RIEP Forum is an in-person event that will be held on Gabriola Island, April 25-27.
“This is a flagship event for the 18 plus rural islands of BC. The reach is from Bowen Island to Malcolm Island to Salt Spring to Gabriola, to Cortes, and Quadra. Our motto is, ‘No one island can be resilient alone, and together we’re stronger and better,’” explained Francine Carlin, Chair and Interim Executive Director of the Rural Islands Economic Partnership.
Continue reading April 25-27: 2023 RIEP Forum
The home of one of Cortes Community Radio’s most popular DJ’s burned down on Friday, September 20. Hiway Hippy had been living in a 38 foot long trailer at Breezy Bay Farm, on Saturna Island, since December. An RCMP investigation determined that the fire was caused by a short in the electrical system.
“I had the RCMP come. I thought it was suspicious. There was an explosion. It blew a hole in my hat, and it blew the glasses off my face. So I immediately thought ‘arson,’ but the RCMP fire inspector walked me through his inspection and explained everything to me. He told me that 90% of RV and trailer fires happened because of a short in the electrical,” explained Hiway Hippy.
Continue reading Hiway Hippy’s home burns down
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A new land conservancy on Saturna Island has created a significant green corridor that includes B.C.’s rarest climatic zone.
The Nature Trust of B.C. has purchased 143.5 acres for the Money Creek conservation area on the southwest corner of Saturna, which falls in the moist maritime Coastal Douglas Fir (CDF) bioclimatic subzone, part of the smallest and rarest of the province’s 16 ecological zones
Continue reading New land trust creates a rare climate zone ‘backbone’ that stretches Saturna Island
