Past Outreach and Events

In Spring we offered the interactive puppet show “The Adventures of Cheetwoot the Bear” with approximately 110 children participating from local schools. We partnered  with North Shore Black Bear Society Program Coordinator, Kirstin Takashiba, who engaged children outdoors on the trail with a fun bear food scavenger hunt. Children learned about Black Bear adaptations, what natural food they eat, and the importance of keeping bears away from human neighborhoods. 

In Fall 2024, we launched our new program focused on climate resiliency with a conservation message “A Journey Down the Fraser River With Raven the Messenger,”  with puppeteer Teki Bradish  and creator Elise Roberts.  Set in the rocky mountains of Mt. Robson Park where the Fraser River began as a trickle of water, Pika and Mountain Goat share their amazing adaptations for living in cold and extreme environments.  Pika meets Raven and asks why the weather is getting warmer.  Raven flies down the Fraser River to find wise old Great Grandmother Sturgeon to ask for her wisdom. Children participate by waving their little sturgeon props and meet Beaver, Moose and Frog along the way.  We are so grateful to use the music of the North Shore Celtic Ensemble’s CD Flywheel  that always livens up the program and gets the audience dancing around!  

The message is that working together to reduce local pollution can give all nature a better chance.  The audience responded well with lots of laughs and participation as the “school of sturgeon.” Teachers were sent a more detailed explanation of how climate change is impacting Pikas, Mountain Goats, and White Sturgeon in order to follow up in the classroom with this important topic. Kids are rewarded at the end with the Jerry Ranger Activity Booklet and each classroom was given one Robert Bateman Mountain Goat print. Pat the Park Ranger puppet concluded the show by asking kids to repeat the verses of the carbon footprint rap tune, and mentioned the BC Parks Living Lab Program.  We look forward to offering this program again in Spring 2025 in partnership with the NSBBS.   

https://bcparks.ca/conservation/living-lab-program/#:~:text=The%20mission%20of%20the%20Living,management%20for%20an%20uncertain%20future

The mission of the Living Lab Program is to encourage climate change research in protected areas, which documents changes in B.C.’s natural world and which guides protected area management for an uncertain future.