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Pleasant Valley Wetland Heritage Park

Pleasant Valley Wetland Heritage Park

  • News and Events
  • About
    • Board of Directors
    • Dr. Mary M. Thomas
    • Accessibility & Inclusion
    • Membership
    • Project Partners
    • Art on the farm
    • Past Projects
      • Bulrush Transplanting
      • Salmon launch
      • Spirit of BC
      • Spilings
      • Youth Skills Link
  • Forest Garden
  • The Park
    • Biodiversity Conservation
    • Wetland Park Creation Guide
    • Wetland Ambassadors
    • Wetland Park Journal
    • Cultural Ecological Outreach
    • History of the Land
    • Native Plant Directory
      • Bee Balm (Wild Bergamot)
      • Black Cottonwood
      • Black Hawthorn
      • Birch-leaf Spiraea
      • Black Twinberry
      • Cattail or Bulrush
      • Choke Cherry
      • Cow Parsnip
      • Green Willow
      • Hazelnut
      • Highbush Cranberry
      • Paper or White Birch
      • Pin Cherry
      • Red Osier Dogwood
      • Saskatoon Berry
      • Soapberry, or Soopolallie
      • (Creeping) Snowberry
      • Tall Oregon Grape
      • Thimbleberry
      • Trembling Aspen
      • Western Red Cedar
      • Wild Raspberry
      • Wild Nootka Rose
    • Wetland Monitoring
    • Wetland Resources
  • Trees
    • Tree Species
    • Trees for Schools
      • Reconciliation in Action
  • Contact
  • Pocket forests
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Project Partners

We are grateful to the funding partners who contributed to the development of BC Small Wetlands Association’s cultural outreach programs, including Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Okanagan Basin Water Board, the Real Estate Foundation of BC, Telus Communities and BC Community Gaming.  BCSWA is pleased to collaborate with the Switzmalph Cultural Society, Splats’in Yucwmenlúcwu (Caretakers of the Land) and volunteers from the community in the development of Pleasant Valley Wetland Heritage Park.

Splats’in Yucwmenlucwu

YUCWMENLÚCWU means ‘Caretakers of the Land,’ and that’s the foundation of our approach. With our people’s culture and connection to the land guiding us, we balance conservation and economic development through innovative and practical solutions. We are committed to working with our partners and clients in the early stages of projects to ensure an adaptive approach.

With a highly skilled team of professionals and certified technicians, as well as a number of industry-leading firms as partners, we manage and deliver government, industry and private sector projects from concept to completion with the highest level of standards at every stage. We see ourselves as partners in resource management and sustainable development with our many partners and clients.

Switzmalph Cultural Society

The Switzmalph Cultural Society has for many years been committed to the conservation of the fragile eco-systems of the Shuswap Delta and the Salmon River, through cultural educational programs and the application of traditional ecological knowledge based on the teachings of Secwepemc Elder Dr. Mary Thomas.

Mary Thomas’ work as an environmentalist was colored by her respect for mother nature and her understanding that no more should be taken from the earth than is truly needed—a philosophy she tried to pass on to future generations. She was concerned about preserving and protecting traditional plants so they would be there for future generation, but she was also concerned about broader environmental issues as well—protection of the air, the earth, the water and the animals. And she recognized that all people, both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, must work together to deal with conservation and environmental issues because everyone, regardless of their cultural background, is equally affected by threats to mother earth.

The Society is working to fulfill Mary’s Thomas’s dream – not only with the restoration and conservation of the Shuswap Delta and Salmon River but also the revitalization of cultural programs at the Mary Thomas Heritage Centre.

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