Curtis Scoville talks about the Black Creek, stewardship, and the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy

In late November 2010 I talked to Curtis Scoville about his stewardship activities in the Comox Valley. This resulted in two short video segments.

In this video talks about moving to Black Creek, just north of Courtenay on Vancouver Island, and how he got involved in forming the Black Creek streamkeepers group. Curtis is a financial planner, and someone who's not afraid to get his hands "dirty" with information management as well as in-the-stream mucking about. He talks to me about the health of the Black Creek, the many small cuts to its upstream wetlands that have a cumulative impact on fish in the stream and downstream properties.



In Part 1 of our conversation Curtis talked about the Black Creek and the value of the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy to the Black Creek streamkeepers. In Part 2 Curtis talks about a number of ways people who care about quality of life in the Comox Valley can contribute to stewardship, ways that don't involve getting wet, cold, or wearing hip-waders. For those of you who think of streamkeeping as a purely "in the creek" kind of activity, his comments should be interesting – maybe even inspiring! I certainly found his perspective refreshing.

This is one of a series of conversations about conservation in the Comox Valley being sponsored by the Comox Valley Land Trust (www.CVLandTrust.ca and Facebook.com/CVLandTrust) and the Comox Valley Conservation Strategy (www.CVConservationStrategy.org and Facebook.com/CVConservationStrategy).

There are many perspectives on conservation and stewardship and how these have an impact on our quality of life here in this region. This series of conversations will help to draw out some of the reasons why people are involved, and how smarter land use planning and development has a positive impact on all of us in the Comox Valley.

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