Just do it: turf the Nikes and find our ancestral ‘soles’
When I first signed up to run the Victoria Marathon as part of Raincoast’s “salmon run” team, I just had two tasks: get fit and raise 1,000 dollars. Yeah, just two tasks…
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Marine bird talk by Caroline Fox
Marine bird talk at VNHS
Wednesday, October 27, 7:30 pm
Rm 159 Fraser Building UVic Campus -
How I learned to stop worrying and love to run
By Peter Ross
For me, setting sights on the 8K Road Race at the Victoria Marathon as part of Raincoast’s ‘Salmon Run’ team was an opportunity to get into shape…
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Save some salmon for the bears and whales, study says
Regina Leader-Post
By Judith Lavoie, October 22, 2010Some salmon would be worth more alive than dead – especially when runs are headed for streams in parks, say Raincoast scientists…
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Save some salmon for the bears and whales, study says
By Judith Lavoie, TimesColonist.com, October 21, 2010
A new paper by Raincoast and other scientists calls for changes in fishing plans to manage salmon for wildlife and other benefits…
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Salmon worth more alive than dead, scientists say
By Judith Lavoie, Victoria Times Colonist, October 22, 2010
Entire ecosystems rely on salmon and humans are taking more than their share, a new study concludes. The paper calls for a shift in fishing plans to protect other species….
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Salmon management should include wildlife
As this year’s salmon head upstream, scientists have spawned a game-changing idea about how taking less salmon from the ocean might bring more benefits to ecosystems and economies…
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Salmon for Terrestrial Protected Areas
When watersheds are protected for coastal wildlife such as grizzly bears, spirit bears and wolves, shouldn’t the salmon runs they depend on for food and energy receive protection protected as well?
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It was only 8K
By Andrew Rosenberger
It was only 8K. When I registered for the race, that was what I kept thinking. I wasn’t worried about the other 2,681 runners and walkers in the 8K race, or about the fact that I had only been running once in the last month…
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Patagonia supports Raincoast
Patagonia’s 2010 Winter Catalog features Raincoast scientist Dr. Chris Darimont at work in the Great Bear Rainforest…
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Canadian Coyote Bounty – Killing Carnivores for Cash
by Camilla Fox and Chris Genovali
In seemingly contradictory comments, Nova Scotia’s Natural Resource Minister John MacDonnell has acknowledged publicly that coyote bounties “don’t work to control the population…”
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Salmon team makes a splash at the Victoria Marathon
Together with 14,000 other runners, members of Raincoast’s salmon team took part in the kid’s run, 8 km, half marathon and full marathon events at the GoodLife Fitness Marathon on October 10th, 2010. Standing at the starting line amidst a sea of runners, I felt both excited and nervous. Many of us, including my friend,…
