Making a difference.
A few years ago, while in the Vancouver British Columbia International Airport, I passed by a an interesting sign which said "If you want things to stay the same, then things have to change." I thought about that, and the rod case I had slung over my shoulder, where I was headed, and about how good some things still are and how important it is to save them. No matter where you work, play, hunt, fish, swim or live.
Its obvious and beyond argument: most of us are standing in the center of a world of old habits and ideologies which have to change if we want to continue to live as we have become accustomed to, and I am not a naive idealist, or "historical romantic" who thinks we have to go back to "the good ol' days", without modern technology, medicine, electricity, cars and airplanes etc.
We can't. But we can change some things, rearrange our priorities, and start putting environmental concerns where they belong, ahead of profit and technological expansion. There is nothing wrong with profit, and there is nothing wrong with industrial development. But they have to be sustainable if they are to survive, and all of us with them. As the bumper sticker says: "No planet, no business".
The resources listed here are good ones. Each one has several ways to help including cash donations, media publicity, voting opportunities and other kinds of involvement and commitment.
Patagonia - The Conservation Alliance
The Conservation Alliance's mission is to engage businesses to fund and partner with organizations to protect wild places for their habitat and recreation values.
The Babine River Foundation
Maintain the Provincially significant, quality wilderness angling values associated with the Babine River.
North Coast Steelhead Alliance
The North Coast steelhead Alliance is committed to securing the escapement of wild steelhead in sufficient numbers to sustain healthy wild steelhead stocks and a robust sport fishery in northwestern British Columbia.
Skeena River Conservation Coalition
Cultivating a sustainable future from a sustainable environment rooted in our culture and thriving wild salmon ecosystem.
The Native Fish Society
Guided by the best available science, Native Fish Society advocates for the recovery of wild, native fish and promotes the stewardship of the habitats that sustain them.
