Salish Sea Emerging Stewards
For over 15 years, as guests of the Heiltsuk Nation, Raincoast staff scientists have supported the development of local youth as future stewards of the environment at a yearly kids camp. We count many previous participants as friends, colleagues and our own teachers. Importantly, the concept of consilience, blending different types of learning and ways of knowing, recognizes the value of Indigenous knowledge that we blend with our own methods. This concept of consilience sits at the heart of our Salish Sea Emerging Stewards program.
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Raincoast’s Emerging Stewards program is designed to help inspire a new generation of conservation leaders in the Salish Sea. Recently...
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The Salish Sea Emerging Stewards Program
Through hands-on learning, participants link learning concepts directly to the places and experiences of the program as they immerse in local forests, beaches, and oceans to understand their local environment and its conservation challenges. -
The Emerging Stewards program
Raincoast’s Emerging Stewards program is designed to help inspire a new generation of conservation leaders in the Salish Sea. -
Empowering youth leadership
The Salish Sea Emerging Stewards program is based on the idea of consilience – the convergence of principles from different disciplines to form a comprehensive theory. In this case we seek to weave academic, scientific, and Indigenous perspectives on stewardship …
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Fun with the Salish Sea’s newest Emerging Stewards
Just over a week ago, we had the absolute privilege to host nearly 50 students from WŚANÉC Leadership Secondary School. These high school students participate in the Salish Sea Emerging Stewards (SSES) programme – an incredible, hands-on learning experience …
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Salish Sea Emerging Stewards program
Raincoast’s Emerging Stewards program is designed to help inspire a new generation of conservation leaders in the Salish Sea. We connect local youth with Raincoast scientists and Salish Sea Indigenous knowledge holders through a variety of nature-based experiential learning activities. Field and class visits lead up to the program’s centrepiece where our research vessel Achiever serves as a floating classroom... -
Mushroom ID
Having fun with fungi. Mushroom ID while at sea with Raincoast Conservation and the Salish Sea Emerging Stewards.…
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Raincoast’s Salish Sea Emerging Stewards Program
Our Salish Sea Emerging Stewards Program helps to inform and inspire youth conservation leaders. With a focus on indigenous youth and youth at risk we blend nature based education, contemporary science with Coast Salish cultural practice, ways of knowing and ecological knowledge. Our partners include... -
The Salish Sea Emerging Stewards program
In 2016 we launched the Salish Sea Emerging Stewards program to provide inspiring opportunities for local youth to learn, and teach us, about local conservation and resource management issues. We provided direct experience...

