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Newsletter of the & Area Land Trust Society January 2010

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Coastal Plants Author 2 Habitat Rehabilitation 4 Guilt-Free Fashions 5 Wild Greens Festival 6 Native Plants Nursery 7 1% for the Planet 7 Bottles for Benson 8 Vesper Sparrow Habitat 9 Thank You All 10

Charlee Hawes putting up information signs in the Linley Valley

PLEASE SUPPORT THE PROTECTION OF DL 56 IN THE LINLEY VALLEY NALT is calling on all members and supporters to voice your support for a provincial proposal that would protect District Lot 56 - the BC crown land in the Linley Valley. DL 56 has been included in a recent BC Ministry of Forests and Range proposal to protect five crown properties in the Coastal Douglas fir ecosystem by providing them with ‘enhanced stewardship’, and you have only until February 15th to send your comments to the Ministry in support of this proposal. DL 56, a 260-acre block of crown land in the Linley Valley, is located directly east of the 145-acre Cottle Lake Park that was purchased by the City of Nanaimo in 2003 with the help of a $500,000 fundraising campaign carried out by NALT. “If the province protects this block of crown land it will mean an area of more than 400 acres in the Linley Valley will be protected for its environmental values and for recreation,” said NALT Executive Director Gail Adrienne. “This is something that both NALT and the City have been hoping for and working towards for many years. It will give Nanaimo residents a legacy of green space that will be valued more and more in the years to come, much like Stanley Park in .” According to the Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WCWC), of the five properties cited in the BC Ministry of Forests and Range proposal, three others are located in the RDN - in Nanoose, near Bowser and in the Little Qualicum watershed. A fifth property is located at Hurtado, north on the Sunshine Coast. (Continued on page 3)

News from NALT January 2010 Page 1 NEWS FROM NALT COASTAL PLANTS AUTHOR IN NANAIMO is published by the ON MARCH 4 Nanaimo & Area Land Trust Andy MacKinnon - forester, biologist, ecologist and author - will be NALT's Mission is: presenting in Nanaimo in early March as part of our Annual to promote and protect the Seminar Series, thanks to sponsorship by NALT’s Edible Wild natural values of land in the Plants Project which is funded by the BC Ministry of Housing and Nanaimo area Social Development. Andy MacKinnon is well known to botanists and outdoors The Nanaimo & Area enthusiasts as one of the authors of Plants of Coastal British Land Trust Society Columbia, a popular field guide published by Lone Pine Books. It was registered as a B.C. Society was co-authored by Jim Pojar. in 1995, and subsequently was granted charitable tax status In his day job, Andy MacKinnon works as a coastal region and the right to hold ecologist for the BC Ministry of Forests and Range, and is adjunct conservation covenants. professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University. In his spare time, Andy Management Staff has contributed to five other titles for Lone Pine - including Edible Executive Director: Gail Adrienne and Medicinal Plants of Canada, published in 2009. Financial Manager: Deanna Bickerton “NALT‘s Edible Wild Plants Project has a mandate to raise public Volunteer Coordinator: Paul Chapman awareness about the potential to use the rich diversity of edible Plant Nursery Manager: Susan Fisher wild plants found throughout central Vancouver Island,” says Conservation Covenant Specialist: Norm Wagenaar, NALT’s Stewardship Centre and Programs Anne Kerr Manager. “With that focus, we figured Andy MacKinnon was a Administrative Assistant: perfect fit for the annual NALT series of public presentations and Betty Penston seminars.” Andy is known for his lively talks and great story- Stewardship Centre and telling. Programs Manager: Norm Wagenaar His presentation in Nanaimo will take place on March 4th in the Lounge of Beban Park Recreation Centre, starting at 7 pm. This Newsletter Editor: Ken Lyall informative evening is open to the public with no admission Board of Directors charge, but a suggested donation of $10. Look for more details closer to the event date on the NALT website: www.nalt.bc.ca Holly Blackburn Gillian Butler Dean Gaudry (co-chair) Sherry Halfyard JOB POSTING Jean-Michel Hanssens Charlee Hawes, one of our participants in the JCP Habitat Allan Hawryzki Restoration and Enhancement Crew (see story on page 4), has Barbara Hourston Dale Lovick (co-chair) found full-time work and will be leaving the crew at the end of Shelley Serebrin January. It has been a real pleasure working with Charlee over Ron Tanasichuk the last six months and she is sure to do well in her new job. Jim Young Congratulations Charlee! Contact us at: As a result, we now have an opening on our Crew. The activities of the project involve habitat restoration in the Mount Benson The NALT Stewardship Centre Regional Park and in selected lowland areas within the RDN. The Madrona Building (lower floor) project runs until the end of June. If you, or anyone you know Suite 8, 140 Wallace Street who has an active or recent EI claim, is interested in applying for Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5B1 this position, please call Paul for complete job description and more information before 4:00 pm Friday, February 5: phone: (250) 714-1990 email: [email protected] 250-714-1990 or email [email protected]

www.nalt.bc.ca News from NALT January 2010 Page 2 (Continued from page 1) Together, the five properties total nearly 4,000 acres of Coastal Douglas fir ecosystem. This ecosystem is considered among the most endangered in Canada, with less than 1% of the original old growth left and about 50% of the entire ecosystem under pavement or agriculture. It is DL 56 characterized by a Mediterra- nean-like climate, featuring coastal Douglas fir, arbutus and Garry oak, and contains many species at risk. A recent press release from WCWC applauds the Ministry’s move, and encourages the government to expand this wonderful initiative to include all remaining crown land parcels of Coastal Douglas Fir ecosystem from Bowser to Sooke. Nanaimo NDP MLA Leonard Krog said letters and e-mails of support would push the government to “do the right thing for Linley Valley.” Bill Zinovich of the Integrated Land Management Bureau in Nanaimo told NALT that “enhanced stewardship” on the properties means “no logging.” The order from the Ministry allows up to five percent of the area of the properties to be disturbed, but only for access to address safety concerns. “We urge everyone to send a letter endorsing the protection of DL 56 in the Linley Valley and the four other properties in the proposal.” said Gail Adrienne. “And, you may also want to support the call made by WCWC that the Ministry to extend this initiative to include protection of all remaining crown land parcels of Coastal Douglas Fir ecosystem from Bowser to Sooke.” For more information on the land use order that would protect the Linley Valley and the other Coastal Douglas fir areas, go to: www.ilmb.gov.bc.ca/slrp/legalobjectives/advertisedLUORs.html

Letters can be mailed to: Bill Zinovich, Integrated Land Management Bureau, West Coast Service Centre, Suite 142, 2080 Labieux Road, Nanaimo, BC, V9T 6J9 or emailed to: [email protected]

Remember, you only have until February 15th to make your thoughts known.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. Anne Frank 1929-1945 News from NALT January 2010 Page 3 incorporated into this business proposal. HABITAT REHABILITATION AND There are many pressures on natural ecosystems ENHANCEMENT CREW in the Nanaimo area, including a rapid population growth, infiltration of invasive plant species, and Since the onset of winter rains and snow in the habitat loss. Together with an expansion of public Mount Benson Regional Park, NALT’s Habitat parklands, these present an increasing challenge Rehabilitation and Enhancement Crew, funded by to park personnel. the provincial Job Creation Partnerships (JCP), has been concentrating its efforts in lands below In recent years, NALT has coordinated two crews the snowline. With Joan Michel, the RDN Parks that have worked in the field, with City of Nanaimo and Trails Coordinator, the team visited the Parks and RDN Parks staff, to protect and Lighthouse Community Trail with an eye to enhance the natural values of parkland and other redesigning it to accommodate wheelchair traffic. significant green spaces. The proposed This challenging project will involve creating a Conservation Crew will build on these relationships minimal-slope trail while maintaining the viability of and their experience to offer trail building and root systems and wetlands. The crew is currently maintenance, habitat restoration and working on mapping the existing trail and enhancement, naturescaping and other generating alternative routes within the narrow stewardship services. corridor of the trail allowance. The business plan for the Conservation Crew will The participants have also completed the design of target the following opportunities: some directional and interpretive signage for work to work in remote sites such as the Arrowsmith that was completed in the Mount Benson Park Massif. NALT’s experience working on Mount earlier in the fall. These signs are now ready to be Benson will translate well to remote work sites; installed to direct people to the re-routed Te’tux- to carry out invasive species removal and habitat w’tun Trail, and to explain the methodology and restoration work as needed throughout City and reasons behind the wetland enhancement and Regional parks; road decommissioning. to practice naturescaping (using native plant Recently, the crew revisited the Linley Valley to species and restoring natural processes in carry out work both within the Cottle Lake Park and landscaping), as concerns about water the Crown Land (DL 56). The crew continued to consumption and pesticide use increase. remove invasive Scotch broom in the Park and repaired boardwalk damage in DL 56 that resulted Other work could include neighbourhood programs from the partial washout of an abandoned beaver for watershed protection, sensitive ecosystem dam. awareness, and training and supervising teams of volunteer park wardens. At Newcastle Island Provincial Park, the crew met with Jeff Hallworth, chair of the Invasive Plant The Conservation Crew will accomplish its work Committee for the B.C. Ministry of Forests and using manual tools where possible in an effort to Range, and received instruction about the safe reduce the impact to the environment. All the work removal of spurge laurel (‘daphne’), and applied done by the Conservation Crew will be guided by those techniques in the park. The team will follow NALT’s mission: to promote and protect the natural up with Jeff to receive further instruction on values of land in the Nanaimo area. compiling a park inventory of invasive plants. For more information about the work of the current The Conservation Crew Proposal Habitat Restoration and Enhancement Team, or to find out more about plans for the Conservation NALT is researching the viability of establishing a Crew, please contact Paul at [email protected] permanent ‘Conservation Crew’ that would be or call 250-714-1990. available for various habitat restoration and rehabilitation projects in the community. We have considered other competitors already operating in the field, the possible market niche, and the budget We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. that would be required to successfully operate a Francis Bacon (1561—1626) crew of four. The project Advisory Committee has offered many useful suggestions which will be News from NALT January 2010 Page 4 GUILT-FREE FASHIONS FROM NALT This past Christmas season, NALT made a leap to offering only ethical merchandise from now on. New items featured in mall sales at the Country Club Centre included zippered and pullover hoodies (see photo) embroidered with the NALT logo, and a new line of T-shirts featuring the Edible Wild Plants Project - all from metowe, a Canadian social enterprise that is committed to providing ethically manufactured apparel and other products. All of metowe’s clothing line is made sweatshop-free in Canada of certified organic cotton, and 50% of metowe’s profits go to Free the Children, an organization founded by Craig Keilburger to support child development projects around the world. With the recent order from metowe, NALT can proudly say that most of our merchandise is now Canadian-made in ethical environments. In fact, much of NALT merchandise is produced locally. The NALT logos embroidered on clothing items were done right here in Nanaimo by Threadscape Custom Apparel; Mount Benson and Linley Valley silk-screen graphics were designed and printed by Senini Graphics; calendars, featuring local photographers are printed in Victoria by Fotoprint; a new line of gift cards featuring local photos is printed by Eye Mean Graphics in Nanaimo, as are our Linley Valley and Mount Benson trail maps; native seeds, plants and Christmas trees are products of NALT’s native plant nursery - and the list goes on. Although the 2009 holiday season is now a thing of the past, NALT merchandise items make great gifts any time of the year - or buy for yourself and the support the world you care about! All items are on sale at the NALT Stewardship Centre at 140 Wallace Street in Nanaimo during office hours: 10 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday.

NALT’S SPRING BEVERAGE & BURGER NIGHT March 21, 2010 5:30pm to 9:00pm Windward Neighborhood Pub Boundary Crescent (across from the hospital) your choice of: Beer, Wine or Non-alcoholic Beverage, Chicken Breast or Lean Beef Burger, Fries or Salad $14.00 Silent and Live Auctions - Door Prize Draws - Live Entertainment 250-714-1990 for details and to reserve tickets

News from NALT January 2010 Page 5 HEADS UP! THE FIRST ANNUAL WILD GREENS FESTIVAL IS COMING TO NANAIMO! Through the work of the Edible Wild Plants Project, the revival of incorporating edible wild plants into our diet is underway. To encourage this reclamation of our palates, and to celebrate the local abundance of wild greens and other edibles, NALT will host a “Wild Greens Festival” on April 24th at Bowen Park Auditorium. This all-day event will feature local chefs using wild plant greens and other ingredients, which they will transform into delicious dishes for everyone to sample. Some wild plants that you may have an opportunity to taste include: Fiddleheads from ferns Nettles Dandelion leaves Thimbleberry and Fireweed shoots Chickweed Miner’s Lettuce Big Leaf Maple tree flowers The festival will also showcase makers of local wild products; the Edible Wild Plants team will offer guided plant walks in Bowen Park; presentations by local experts will help you to learn how to identify, ethically harvest, prepare and garden with local wild plants; and live local music will round out the celebration. Don’t miss this unique and fun opportunity to experience wild Miner’s lettuce – a tasty spring treat! edible plants through all of your senses!

WWW DONATIONS ACCEPTED! Individuals and businesses supporting NALT are reminded that they can make donations via credit card through the internet. Just go to our website at www.nalt.bc.ca and click on the ‘memberships and donations’ button in the left-hand column. You can then click on the ‘Donate Now’ button, which will take you to the CanadaHelps website. From there, follow the prompts.

With the news that our request for a 2009- 2010 BC Gaming grant has been turned down, NALT is now more grateful than ever for every donation that we receive.

News from NALT January 2010 Page 6 NATURAL ABUNDANCE A LIVING, GREEN CHRISTMAS NATIVE PLANT NURSERY NEWS NALT’s green gifts proved popular this past As we take a break from preparing seeds, trees, Christmas season. Record sales/rentals of 38 swags and planters for holiday sales, this is the living Christmas trees meant that more Nanaimo season of short days, when the light escapes us by households enjoyed celebrating with a potted late afternoon and we scramble between outdoors coniferous tree provided by NALT’s Natural and the propagation/green house. We’re so glad Abundance Native Plant Nursery staff and to have the addition of shelter this year! volunteers. As well as the Douglas fir, yellow cedar, spruce, grand fir, pine and hemlock trees, All the plants are tucked in for the winter too - we also offered planters, wreaths and swags. many in the ground or with mulch around their pots for protection. Many seeds and cuttings are Watch for an even bigger and better Living underground, developing roots. In a few weeks Christmas Trees program in December 2010. there will be lovely, fresh shoots emerging. But wait! What is that we see? Satin flower, fools onion, harvest brodea, pipsissewa already shooting up! The red flowering currant and the NALT IS APPROVED BY Indian plum have beautiful, well developed buds, 1% for the Planet and a closer look reveals buds on many other shrubs. We hope you will keep native plants in The Nanaimo & Area Land Trust has been mind as you plan your spring gardening. We approved as a non-profit partner with a donation regularly stock about 125 varieties of native plants, program called 1% for the Planet. This means that and you can check out our inventory online at businesses participating in the 1% program can www.nalt.bc.ca - or just come on out any select NALT to receive their donations. Wednesday or Saturday for a visit. 1% for the Planet was created in 2001 by Yvon The nursery is open year round. The “Hardy Chouinard, founder of the Patagonia apparel Perennials” (our name for dedicated year-round company, and Craig Mathews, owner of Montana- volunteers) are busy pruning, looking after the based Blue Ribbon Flies. Their intent was to plants, and preparing seeds for spring sales. The persuade businesses to donate 1% of their sales to new Edible Wild Plants Project demonstration environmental organizations. The organization garden is nearly complete - just waiting for a few now has more than 1100 companies that support new plants and some signage. nearly 2000 environmental groups around the Here are some upcoming events : globe. In 2007, these companies contributed $30 million to environmental organizations.  Edible Wild Plants of the Pacific Northwest, a presentation by Andy MacKinnon, “We’re pleased to have been approved by 1% for March 4th, Beban Park, the Planet,” said Norm Wagenaar, NALT’s Stewardship Centre Manager. “We hope that  Seedy Sunday Nanaimo, donations received through this program will help March 7th, Bowen Park us maintain the diversity of funding sources we  CVIBGS Plant Show and Sale, need to get through lean economic times.” For March 12-14, Beban Park more information, visit the 1% for the Planet  NALT Wild Greens Festival, website at: www.onepercentfortheplanet.org April 24th, Bowen Park  Morrell Annual Plant Sale, May 1, Morrell Nature Sanctuary For you volunteers, there are ongoing opportunities in the field and in the nursery for plant salvaging and potting, seeds packaging, and plants and grounds management. Let Paul or Susan know if you’re interested or have questions. News from NALT January 2010 Page 7 BOTTLES FOR BENSON NALT ushered in the New Year with another Bottles for Benson fundraiser. On January 9th, NALT volunteers once again spent the day sorting refundable containers for a Bottles for Benson event. As in past years, the January bottle drop- off was held in the parking lot of the NALT Stewardship Centre - offering a warm, dry place for our volunteers to shelter between waves of bottles and cans. Executive Director Gail Adrienne (aka just another volunteer) provided snacks, hot drinks and a burger lunch for all those helping out at the We are moving our event. Braving rain and competition from several other bottle drives, our volunteers helped to raise Nanaimo location close to $1200 - a respectable total for the winter bottles collection. Nanaimo 758-6675 Thanks to: Save-on Foods, the Running Room and Arrowsmith Bikes for the tents; Save-on Foods for Parksville 248-5575 groceries; the Bottle Depot for all their help; and all arrowsmithbikes.com those contributors who faced the gloomy winter weather and packed their refundables to the bottle drop. And again, a very special thanks to all our volunteers. Great Job, Everyone!

The least movement is of importance NEXT BOTTLES FOR BENSON to all nature. The entire ocean is Saturday, April 10th 2010 affected by a pebble… 9:00 am to 2:30 pm Country Club Centre Parking Lot Nature is an infinite sphere of which If you miss the date, just drop your refundables at the centre is everywhere and the either Bottle Depot circumference nowhere. (Mostar Drive or Fremont Rd off McGarrigle Rd) and say “Please put these on the NALT Account.” Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) NALT Thanks You for Your Continued Support!

News from NALT January 2010 Page 8 VESPER SPARROW HABITAT RESTORATION CONTINUES In cooperation with the Nanaimo- Collishaw Airport, under the direction of the Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team (GOERT) and with volunteers from the Resource Management Officer Technology (RMOT) program at VIU, NALT has once again been working to restore and enhance Vesper Sparrow habitat at the Nanaimo Airport. The Coastal Vesper Sparrow is the most critically endangered bird species in the Georgia Basin, and the airport grounds represent the northern most reach of their migration and the only known nesting area in BC. Thanks to the RMOT students for their hard work, and to their instructor Greg RMOT students clearing a corridor of invasive Scotch broom Klimes for hot lunches.

that there will be no word until April 1st, and that NALT FEELING THE “competition is extremely stiff this year”. ECONOMIC CRUNCH Still, there is some good news… Thanks to annual funding of $30,000 each from the City of Nanaimo A year ago, when the “recession” was at its peak, and the RDN, we won’t have to close our doors; we were frequently asked how NALT was and thanks to ever more generous donations from managing financially. At that time, we were able to NALT members and supporters, we will be able to reply “We’re doing OK, for now.” In recent months, keep at least some of our programs going. however, that has changed - and we are expecting things to get very tight over the coming months. As with every challenge there is also an opportunity to take action. In the coming weeks, First, it was the rumour that 2009 BC Gaming NALT will spearhead a petition campaign to send Grants were going to be cut to a wide range of to the BC Government, urging that BC Gaming applicants, including sports, culture and grants to ALL qualified charities be reinstated in environmental programs. In November, a letter the 2010 budget. We hope to join forces on this from the Province confirmed that the $35,000 initiative with other local charities who lost their NALT applied for had been turned down. 2009 funding, and we hope you will all help us Next, we were given a verbal caution from staff at collect signatures - many 1000s of them! the BC Ministry of Housing and Social Development, who allocate the funds for Job Creation Partnerships (JCP) grants, that there is suddenly “no more money this year, and probably not for 2010 either”. That surprise came just months after we had been told to extend our present grant for the Habitat Restoration Project. The most recent caution came from Environment Canada when we enquired about the status of our current application to EcoAction for funding to run a stream restoration and stewardship project on Departure Creek this year and next. We were told News from NALT January 2010 Page 9 ~ THANK YOU ALL ~ Many thanks to all the individuals, organizations and businesses who have donated their time and skills as volunteers, contributed items or services, made financial donations, renewed or started a membership, or begun a monthly pre-authorized contribution (PAC). October 21, 2009 to January 15, 2010

Individual Donations – Mt. Benson Phase II: Richard & Mary Cabell; Lisa Christenson; Suzanne Gregory; David Grey & Audette Moreau; Douglas & Doreen Halfyard; Robert Hoffman; Cliff Jackman; Kenn Joubert; Kavita Maharaj & Daniel Peters; Richard McNicol; Susan & Robert Murphy; Celia Pidduck; Dr. David Westwood; Betty &Tom Pepper; Hanne van Westerborg; plus 2 Anonymous. In honour: Bob & Susan Murphy. In memory: Rangor Holmquist; Sandy Shaw. Individual Donations – Linley Valley: Brittany Morgan. Individual Donations – General: Koren Bear; Doreen Besharah; Holly & John Blackburn; Darlene & Michael Booth; Neil Bourne; Kathleen Brodie; Andrea & Chris Cameron; Edna Chadwick; Joy Christian; Deryck & Linda Cowling;Rose Dauk; Frances & John Dawson; Andrew & Melanie Digney; Graeme Ellis & Jane Watson; Jacob Etzkorn; Pam Fairchild; Inge Fleet; Gordon Foy; Sara Frisch; Ian Gartshore; Faye Gentry; Jurgen Goring & Elizabeth Lorenz; Suzanne Gregory; the Estate of Alfred Griffiths; Jean-Michel Hanssens & Anne Kerr; Alexander Hertzberg & Margaret M’Gonigle; Shawn Hildebrant; Rita Hillier; Beverley Kroeger; Trish Jennings; Lawrence Johnson; Bruce Joiner; Susan Juby; Ellen Kyle-O’Connor; Barbara & Ken Lyall; Anne MacMillan; Karin Maley; Arla Jean Murch; Michael O’Donnell; Dennis & Gail Otto; Andrew & Daphne Paterson; Betty Penston; Betty Pepper; Nancy Pez; Britta Peterson; Carolyn Ricker; Christine Robertson; Arthur Robinson; Eleanor Routley; Harriet Rueggeberg; Kathleen Savory; Reinhold Schieber; Ev Schmidt; Mary Shakespeare; Carra Simpson; the Spencer Family Trust; Brenda Stewart; Frank Stoney; Andre Sullivan; Marjorie Stupich; Emma Swanson; Ron Tanasichuk; Mary Thiess; Bonnie & Abe Thiessen; Ross & Mildred Tremblay; Arlene Tucker; Geraldine Turner; Peter & Anneke Van Kerkoerle; Dick W. Vann; Mollie & Gordon Walls; Helen Whyte; Shannon Welsh; Fraser Wilson; Patricia Wilson; Jim & Sharon Young; plus 14 Anonymous. In honour of: Gail Adrienne; Anya & Colin Flagg; Bob & Susan Murphy In memory of: Helen Edwards (5); Sandy Shaw (7) Business & Organization Donations: Etheridge Photo Halloween Fundraiser; Timothy J. Huntsman Law Corporation; The Soap Exchange Clean-up Club. Memberships – New & Renewed: Holly & John Blackburn; Darlene & Michael Booth; Neil Bourne; Dick & Lynne Bowen; David Grey & Audette Moreau; Jean-Michel Hanssens &Anne Kerr; Rita Hillier; Dale Lovick & ; Leigh Ann Milman; Candice Morgan; Geoff Mumford; Michael O’Donnell; Dennis & Gail Otto; Pacific Northwest Expeditions; Carolyn Ricker; Arthur Robinson; Shelley Serebrin; Dick W. Vann; Shannon Welsh; Jim & Sharon Young. Volunteers: Gail Adrienne, Linda Baldwin, Sharon Bennet, Louie Laurent Bergeron, Holly Blackburn, Louis Bourget, Brittany Brooks, Sue Burron, Gillian Butler, Keltie Chamberlain, Paul Chapman, Luke Clarke, Ian Colquhoun, Dalton Corbett, Deryck Cowling, Dave Cutts, Darcy Cyre, Yvonne de Quincy, Kathy Doyle, Doris Edwards, Kate Evans, David Fisher, Susan Fisher, Douglas Fleet, Patrick Gage, Dean Gaudry, Graham Gidden, Amy Godkin, Brad Goodwin, Douglas Gow, Gordon Graham, Sherry Halfyard, Eunice Hannah, Jean-Michel Hanssens, Charlee Hawes, Jeff Hawker, Allan Hawryzki, Alysha Hile, Pat Hogue, Barbara Hourston, Miles Howe, Peter Jeremy, Barbara Kerfoot, Anne Kerr, Greg Klimes, Lenore Kongus, Dale Lovick, Tasja MacGregor, Jesse McGee-Chambers, Chris McIntyre, Janel McNish, Carollyne Miller, Stephanie Mills, Wayne Morgan, Tegan Morris, Dane Nayler, Betty Penston, Gabrielle Rabu, Ellis Richer, Brian Roberts, Justin Rommel, Parker Schactel, Chris Scorah, Rebecca Segal, Wendy Shatner, Beth Stanley, Marjorie Stewart, Kris Taekema, Eiko Taku, Ron Tanasichuk, Judy Tencer, Eugene Touchette, Arlene Tucker, Judith Tye, Colton Vander- molen, Norm Wagenaar, John Wells, Fraser Wilson, and Jim Young. Goods & Services: Lynda & Chuck Addison; Arrowsmith Bikes; Atlas Chiropractic & Body Balance; Sharon & Ralph Bennett; Betsy’s Butique & Bridal Rental; Cactus Club Café; Chemainus Theatre Festival; Deryck & Linda Cowling; Doris Edwards/Fish Hatchery; Fairwinds Community & Resort; Flying Fish; Dean Gaudry; Ilios Mediterranean Cuisine; Peter Jeremy; Anne Kerr; Kool & Child; MacKay Precast Products; Maffeo Salon; ManzaVino’s; Bill Merilees; Mid Island Co-op; My Undies; Nanaimo Wine Shop; Nash Nanaimo Home Hardware; Newcastle Ferry; Nova Beauty; Oak Bay Bikes; Bill & Joan Paterson; Jeannie Paterson; The Port Theatre; Regional District of Nanaimo; Robinson Rentals; The Running Room; Save-On Foods; Shoppers Drug Mart; Starbucks; Charles Thirkill; Peter & Anneke Van Kerkoerle; Vancouver Island University.

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Donation/Pledge Form NALT MEMBERSHIP FORM THE MOUNT BENSON CAMPAIGN II Please send this completed form to: Nanaimo & Area Land Trust DONOR CATEGORIES #8-140 Wallace St. Nanaimo, BC V9R 5B1 I would like to: $50,000 or more Ultimate Benefactor of Benson a)  Renew my NALT Membership $10,000 to $49,999 Benefactor of Benson b)  Begin a NALT Membership (Check the category that applies to you) $5,000 to $9,999 Hero of Benson __ Senior/Low Income/Student -$12 $3,000 to $4,999 Grand Champion of Benson __ Individual - $24 __ Family/Group/School - $36 $1,000 to $2,999 Champion of Benson __ Corporate - $60 $500 to $999 Patron of Benson __ Lifetime Individual – $150 c)  I would like to become a monthly donor: $100 to $499 Friend of Benson Please fill out the reverse side of this form in order to set up a Pre-Authorized Contribution (automatically includes membership) less than $100 Sponsor of Benson OR d)  I would like to make a one time donation of: My donation of $______is enclosed $______

cash, cheque or credit card (check one) AND/OR Make cheque payable to: Nanaimo & Area Land Trust OR I would like to pledge $______in ___(#) Please charge my Visa or Mastercard: Credit Card #______Exp Date :______payments made monthly/annually/other______Signature:______

Make cheque payable to NALT- Mount Benson Acquisition. PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY Visa/MC#______Exp Date:______name______Tax receipts issued for donations of $20 or more. mailing address______My name is ______city______Postal code______(for tax receipt) Please record this contribution in the name of : telephone______email address______(if different) ______Would you like to remain anonymous?  Tax receipts will be issued for contributions of $20 or more. I would like to remain anonymous (Check Here) □ NALT does not sell, trade or loan our database of donors, members or My street address:______contacts to individuals or other organizations Thank you for your continued support! City:______postal code ______OFFICE ONLY: TR #______Phone:______Email:______Thank you for your continued support! News from NALT January 2010 Page 11 OFFICE ONLY: TR #______OUR GREAT VOLUNTEERS! Since the last News from NALT, 75 volunteers working at 12 events or activities have donated 976 hours of their personal time to NALT. Over the course of 2009, a total roster of 226 volunteers donated more than 2,700 hours to NALT. From bottle sorting, to public information sessions, to making sure the Pre-Authorized Contribution (PAC) nursery is stocked, to ensuring trails are safe Includes Annual Membership to travel on, to selling NALT merchandise at Christmas time, and all the other myriad of Complete this section ONLY if you want to become a tasks and activities that keep NALT going - monthly donor. our volunteers have risen to the call again and again. Yes, I authorize NALT to automatically withdraw from my bank account on the 1st of each month: Thanks to everyone for all your help.  $10.00  $20.00 BUSINESSES SUPPORTING NALT  $30.00 Nanaimo businesses are reaching out with  $40.00 fund-raising actions for NALT. For example,  Other amount:______Domino’s Bowen road outlet will support NALT with a donation of $1 from every pizza it sells on  I have enclosed a cheque marked VOID. February 15th. “Our community is what keeps our OR business alive, and we want to give back as much Yes, I authorize NALT to charge my Visa OR MasterCard the as we can,” said Domino’s Kim Neuhaus. 1st of each month: Meanwhile, Starbucks is helping out NALT with a  $10.00 bottle recycling program. The coffee chain’s  $20.00 franchises in Nanaimo are directing all of the proceeds of their refundable bottles to NALT’s  $30.00 ‘Bottles for Benson’ account.  $40.00 And if you shop at the Soap Exchange in Country  Other amount:______Club Centre, please let the staff know that you support NALT and they will donate 10% of your purchase to us. Simply tell them you are a NALT Visa□ M/C□ member or supporter. #:______Exp:______Signature:______We would like to thank Domino’s, Starbucks, and the Soap Exchange. Please remember these and Beginning: (Month)______, 2010 other businesses that support us as you make your purchase decisions in Nanaimo. You may change or cancel your contribution at any time by sending NALT written notice.

Please note: You will receive one tax receipt for the total amount of Thank God men cannot fly, and monthly gifts after the end of each tax year. lay waste the sky as well as the Earth. Your membership & monthly contribution are Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) greatly appreciated. Thank you for your continued support! News from NALT January 2010 Page 12