Shuswap Environmental Action Society

Environmental watchdog for the Shuswap

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Shuswap Environmental Action Society

Breaking News

  • Ancient Forests at Risk in the Upper Seymour (2/18/2023)
  • Big Trees author to speak Feb. 8th (2/2/2023)
  • What does the future hold? (4/2/2022)
  • Cautious optimism for old growth forest protection (11/3/2021)
  • Building Resiliency in the Shuswap (5/17/2021)
  • SEAS submission to the Okg. TSA Timber Supply Review (3/18/2021)
  • Big Trees Saved PDF available for free (2/7/2021)
  • SEAS to host Rally for the Forests on Friday, September 18th (9/15/2020)
  • Logging threatens local watershed (12/17/2019)
  • The Final Liquidation – a B.C. forest emergency (12/17/2019)
  • New agricultural waste regulations will not protect water quality (3/11/2019)
  • 2018 Adams River salmon run lowest on record (2/11/2019)
  • A call for improvements to agricultural waste control regulations (2/2/2018)
  • Reggae and Ska dance music at Boogie for Nature May 20th (5/15/2017)
  • SEAS urges the CSRD to reject Gateway’s proposed development (3/30/2016)
  • Adams River sockeye salmon run crashes (11/18/2015)
  • New video up! – Return to Hunakwa (2/6/2015)
  • Big Trees Saved – info & to order (10/9/2014)
  • 25 years of environmental action – Big Trees Saved book launch & review (10/8/2014)
  • B.C. Government wants massive Shuswap mining project to forgo federal review (6/3/2014)

Songs for the Shuswap
Mara Lake algae bloom May, 2010
Shuswap Lake algae bloom June 2008
Poster launch
Anstey Hunakwa Lake Provincial Park - Myron Kozak
April 2008 Rally for the Salmon near the Adams River mouth
Mara Lake bloom May 11 2010
Adams River mouth, site of controversial RV and condo development
Aerial view of controversial development near the mouth of the Adams River
Cattle in the Shuswap River near Enderby
Upper Seymour Provincial Park
Clearcutting lodgepole pine killed by the  mountain pine beetle near Chase

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About SEAS

SEAS was incorporated as a non-profit society in 1989 with a mission to study environmental issues, to inform the public about environmental problems and solutions, to coordinate activities and share information with other local, provincial, and national environmental organizations, and to take actions to improve our local environment.

SEAS Accomplishments

  • Helped create over 25,000 hectares of new Provincial Parks for the Shuswap region.
  • Helped develop two land use plans that have improved management of natural resources in the Shuswap.
  • Organized numerous public forums on topics such as climate change, water, forestry and food safety.
  • Participated in numerous provincial environmental and forestry processes.
  • Helped achieve provincial moratorium on private sewage effluent outfalls into Shuswap Lake.
  • Helped halt proposed re-zoning of a development near the mouth of the Adams River
  • Helped halt the proposed big-box shopping centre on Salmon River floodplain in 2008
  • Helped produce the Shuswap Watershed Poster which includes the first ever map of the entire Shuswap region
  • Catalyst for the Shuswap Watershed Project, a collaborative educational imitative to raise public awareness