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Author Talk: Sheila Harrington • Voices for the Salish Sea
Saturday November 2 @ 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Join Sheila Harrington as she shares some of the stories found in Voices for the Islands: Thirty Years of Nature Conservation on the Salish Sea, published by Heritage House—a new book chronicling the three-decade legacy of passionate Salish Sea island residents who have dedicated much of their lives to protecting nature in determined, creative ways.
Taste some of the delights of her inspiring sailing journey as Sheila meets with the dedicated founders and current activists from seventeen of the islands in the Salish Sea who have doggedly protected hundreds of nature reserves, parks and protected places for people and the unique wildlife we share these precious islands with.
Voices for the Islands is a tribute to local conservationists-past and present-detailing their outstanding legacy, along with the methods and legal tools that offer waypoints for the future in these challenging times.
“In these troubling times of climate change and biodiversity loss, Harrington’s book is an uplifting testament to how individuals and communities working together to protect what they cherish can make an incalculable difference.”
—Sarah Cox, author of Signs of Life and Breaching the Peace
Sheila Harrington is an author, sailor, and environmental advocate with a thirty-year career in the conservation field. She was the founding executive director of the Land Trust Alliance of BC (LTABC) from 1997 to 2011 and a director of the Lasqueti Island Nature Conservancy for more than twelve years. She is co-author of the bestselling Islands in the Salish Sea Community Atlas, a finalist for two BC Book Awards and third-place winner of the BC Historical Federation prize. She edited and published Positive Vibrations magazine in the 90s and Giving the Land a Voice, Mapping Our Home Places and the BC Kingfisher magazine in the early 2000s. She currently lives off-grid on Lasqueti Island.
Copies of the book will be available for sale by the author.
Presented by Bowen Island Public Library and Bowen Island Conservancy.