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Friday, April 27 • 2012
Vol. 4 • Issue 86
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City axes Bringing back an ecosystem longtime heritage adviser Selkirk College Students Continue Cottonwood Restoration Project
Consultant who played key role in revitalizing downtown dropped from latest budget
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students in areas intended for non-human use. “There are other parts near the waterfront for people to use. We’re putting more of the focus on non-human use for this restoration,” she said. “I feel like we need to take care of nature that’s close at hand… If we can take care of what we have right in our city that is a habitat for wild creatures, then we should do that.”
In a move one critic calls a “death knell for heritage” in Nelson, the city is cutting funding to its community heritage commission by more than half and dispensing with its longtime design consultant. Robert Inwood, who has been closely associated with local heritage projects for more than 30 years, will no longer be kept on retainer, and specific consulting projects will instead be tendered competitively. The commission, which makes recommendations to city council on matters affecting downtown heritage buildings, will have its budget of $14,000 reduced by $7,500, senior city planner Dave Wahn told members during their regular monthly Tuesday. That’s roughly equivalent to what Inwood was paid.
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Members of the Selkirk College restoration program got their hands dirty this week as they took to planting native species of plants along the banks of Cottonwood Creek. The restoration initiative aims to build natural ecosystems in the area. SAMUEL DOBRIN Nelson Star Reporter
An area of town that was once neglected will be receiving a little extra attention through a restoration project aimed at recreating a natural ecosystem. “I’ve been involved in this project to restore Cottonwood Creek for 10 years,” says Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, a member of the committee dedicated to the effort. The goal of the initiative is to restore the natural ecosystem for
vegetation and wild creatures by putting in several plants that would have naturally grown in areas where there’s currently little more than grass. “Once the plants establish they’ll bring in other native plants and birds will stop in and use the area, and then the whole ecosystem starts to work,” said Derek Marcoux, program chair for the School of Environments and Geomatics at Selkirk College. Delehanty Pearkes said plants such as dogwood and cedar have already been planted by Selkirk
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