Greenways Land Trust

Greenways Land Trust Campbell River on Vancouver Island, our mission is to enhance natural spaces for people and wildlife

Greenways is committed to increasing and improving the natural spaces in Campbell River.

- We have a stewardship agreement with the Ministry of Forests to maintain trails through our Adopt-A-Trail program.
- We coordinate work for all the creeks in Campbell with help from their stewards.
- We oversee several environmentally sensitive properties with City of Campbell River agreements.
- We advoc

ate on behalf of the environment at City Hall.
- We support community gardens like the Laughing Willow Community Garden and the Mountain View Community Garden & Food Forest.

🦀 Greenways' Nature Club is getting crabby! 🐌 Join our next Nature Club outing, when we will wander down the Fisherman's...
06/12/2026

🦀 Greenways' Nature Club is getting crabby!

🐌 Join our next Nature Club outing, when we will wander down the Fisherman's Wharf to investigate the contents of a light trap suspended in the water, which is designed to attract juvenile Dungeness crabs.

👶 In their early stages of life, as larva and their final pre-adult "megalopae" stage, instead of crawling along the ground, crabs float through life in the water column.

💡 The light trap is a part of the Sentinels of Change Project led by , which seeks to gather data to better understand the distribution and timing of dispersal of these planktonic critters. The data they collect with volunteers provides an indication of the number of adult crabs in following years and contributes to our understanding of their population status and trends.

🐙 On our visit, we ​will be joined by Jordan Frizzley, who has been volunteering with the Sentinels of Change Project this year. Jordan has experience working in BC's aquaculture industry, specializing in plankton monitoring. He has been involved with Greenways Land Trust as both a contractor, staff member and volunteer. In his free time, he enjoys freediving in pursuit of Dungeness crabs, and is excited to help contribute to our understanding and conservation of them.

🐟 If you wish to get in on the visit, please meet us at the Discovery Passage Aquarium beside Campbell River Fisherman's Wharf on Wednesday, June 24th at 10:30 am. We will walk down the wharf to the light trap. Please wear appropriate, non-slip footwear and ensure you bring hydration as needed. There are washroom facilities nearby.

We have capacity for ten participants on this outing, so please register here: https://volunteersignup.org/9JFLA

Also, you will need to sign a waiver from Hakai institute here: https://waiver.smartwaiver.com/w/hchaalf84mfs85ujq3psru/web/

Date: Wednesday, June 24th
Time: 10:30 am
Location: Campbell River Fisherman's Wharf - meet beside the aquarium
Map to Fisherman's Wharf parking area: https://maps.app.goo.gl/iU6BTAfuDVDrJM62A

(Photos courtesy Mayne Island Conservancy and Oregon State University)

🐸 Congratulations, Averyl, on recording the most observations on iNaturalist during our Salmonberry Nature Festival bio...
06/11/2026

🐸 Congratulations, Averyl, on recording the most observations on iNaturalist during our Salmonberry Nature Festival bioblitz last month! You've won a 4 hour zodiac tour and tote bag which includes a zip up hoodie and orca stuffie from !

📷 She even took a wonderful photo of our festival's namesake plant species!

🦉 We had so much fun on our various expert-led outings and guest talks during the festival, and we had so much amazing support from our community partners, generous prize donors, and participants.

🐳 Campbell River Whale Watching is an amazing local business and partner who chooses to support our work as a Greenways corporate member the rest of the year as well.

"We’re proud to support Greenways Land Trust as a corporate member because their work plays such an important role in protecting the ecosystems that make this region so special. From restoring critical habitats to supporting local stewardship initiatives, Greenways brings together community, science, and collaboration in a way that creates real, lasting impact.

As a wildlife tourism operator, we see firsthand how connected healthy lands and waterways are to thriving marine environments. Supporting Greenways is one way we can give back locally and help ensure these natural spaces are protected for future generations to enjoy."

💚 Did you know 2026 is our 30th year taking care of the lands and waters that sustain us? We are working hard to diversify our funding streams and build financial resiliency.

🫶 You can directly support our work by donating here: https://greenways-land-trust.raiselysite.com/

🥕 Recently, we've had volunteers busy fixing up degraded garden beds at our community garden sites in Willow Point and t...
06/04/2026

🥕 Recently, we've had volunteers busy fixing up degraded garden beds at our community garden sites in Willow Point and the Merecroft Village area.

💪 Raised beds at Laughing Willow and Mountain View Community Gardens are in need of repair, and thanks to some generous support, we have the materials ready to go. generously donated $2,500 toward the project, and their President, Rob Comeau, went a step further by donating roughly 500 board feet of cedar milled from his own property. Ben Boykiw of volunteered his own time to help Rob with the milling (as we mentioned earlier this week).

🫀 Community gardens are great places of community building, where members get to grow nutritious food, get fresh air and exercise, and get social time with their neighbours.

🍅 Our committee members at Mountain View are also extra busy growing food in dedicated beds for the Campbell River Food Bank. Last year, they grew and donated nearly 800 pounds of fresh veggies as part of the Grow-a-Row program.

🥗 We want to say a huge thank-you to Rob, Ben, Daybreak Rotary, and the amazing volunteer gardeners who put so much effort into making these spaces such wonderfully productive gardens!

🍎 Wow! Our summer fruit gleaning program is getting a huge boost! is extending a 15% discount on pruning services to fo...
06/03/2026

🍎 Wow! Our summer fruit gleaning program is getting a huge boost! is extending a 15% discount on pruning services to folks who register their trees with our Campbell River Fruit Tree Project!

🍐 Do you or your neighbours have a backyard fruit tree in need of some harvest help? Mature fruit trees can produce hundreds of pounds of delicious fruit in a given season, which is just a crazy amount of fruit for one family to deal with.

🐻 Never fear! Our volunteer gleaners are ready with ladders and sunscreen to help keep the raccoons and bears from being attracted to rotting fruit on the lawn. We've harvested upwards of 10,000 pounds of fruit in each of the last few seasons, and we have a network of community partners like the ready to put excess fruit to use.

🍇 Homeowners keep 25% of the fruit that's harvested, volunteers keep 25%, while Greenways distributes the remaining half to our community partners for distribution. Last year, excess fruit from Campbell River was sent to communities all over Strathcona Regional District.

💚 Vision Arboriculture is an amazing Greenways supporter. Recently, owner Ben Boykiw donated his own time to help mill cedar lumber for our community garden bed repairs. Vision also sends us wood chips for various projects needing mulch around town. Ben also recently presented to Campbell River City Council advocating for a tree bylaw to protect mature trees on City property, which we wholeheartedly support. Thanks Ben!

🌳 You can register your backyard tree here: https://forms.office.com/r/KrjbK5BpHX

🐝 You can sign up as a gleaning volunteer here: https://www.greenwaystrust.ca/volunteer/

🐸 Volunteering with our program is a great way to meet new friends, contribute to community health, reduce dangerous animal attractants — and take home some amazingly fresh and delicious fruit!

🐻 We need your help to reach our fundraising goal — become a Greenways member to help us reach 300+ members this!🦖 2026 ...
06/02/2026

🐻 We need your help to reach our fundraising goal — become a Greenways member to help us reach 300+ members this!

🦖 2026 marks 30 years since we began stewarding Campbell River's natural areas, and we've set some big goals to help carry us forward far into the future. By the end of 2026, we want to have 300+ members signed up supporting our work. At the moment, we're well on our way with 246 current members — that's only 54 more to go!

💚 Membership is one of the most vital ways you can pledge your support for our work. Members have voting rights at our annual general meeting each year and get discounts on our paid workshops and events. Membership fees help cover some of the most difficult to fund aspects of our operations — including admin costs like bookkeeper wages, utility bills, and truck insurance so we can haul away invasives to the dump.

💪 During our last strategic plan, we identified financial resiliency and diversifying funding streams as a major priority. You can help support us by becoming a member and laying the bedrock that all of our programs and projects are built on.

👉👉👉 Becoming a member is super easy! You can visit our office, or purchase online here: https://www.greenwaystrust.ca/become-a-member/

🐟 Today is BC Wild Salmon Day, and we wanted to highlight some things we've been working on and thinking about.🦺 In Camp...
06/01/2026

🐟 Today is BC Wild Salmon Day, and we wanted to highlight some things we've been working on and thinking about.

🦺 In Campbell River, Greenways partners on and leads several overlapping projects which support wild salmon populations. Earlier this year, we ended a three year project restoring critical eelgrass and salt marsh habitat in the Mill Pond area of the Campbell River estuary, in partnership with the Wei Wai K*m First Nation.

🦫 We facilitate monthly Streamkeeper workshops to bring together volunteers, government partners, Guardians, and others to support stream stewardship in the regon. We monitor the Simms Creek fish fence, which helps gather data about the health of local salmon populations in Campbell River's urban streams and waters. We remove invasive species, take students out on educational watershed outings, and much more!

💙 Wild salmon depend on healthy rivers, wetlands, estuaries, and oceans throughout their life cycle. But across the world, many of these habitats have been damaged by human activity and climate change.

🚗 Lately, we have been paying close attention to research showing how a component added to tire rubber to prevent rubber degradation, called 6-PPDQ. Through typical use, tires wear down and particles are released into the surrounding environment, mixing with stormwater that enters urban streams through road runoff. 6PPD-Q was recently found to be a lethal substance to Coho salmon, and research is underway to understand the full extent of this toxin’s effect in these urban environments.

🔬 Greenways volunteers participated in a data collection program to monitor 6-PPDQ levels in local waterways, led by BC Conservation Foundation Aquatic Research & Restoration Centre and Vancouver Island University's Centre for Health & Environmental Mass Spectrometry.

You can read more about this program here: https://www.tireweartoxins.com/

And you can read more about 6-PPDQ here: https://psf.ca/work/climate/tire-wear-toxin-6ppd-q/

🏞️ The good news is that despite negative effects and declines in salmon populations on the largest scales, salmon habitat restoration works, seeing local salmon populations begin to bounce back.

🐟 Celebrate Ocean Week with Greenways, May 31st - June 8th!🌊 Campbell River Ocean Week is a series of community events d...
05/29/2026

🐟 Celebrate Ocean Week with Greenways, May 31st - June 8th!

🌊 Campbell River Ocean Week is a series of community events dedicated to raising awareness about ocean conservation and the close ties between the people of Campbell River and the ocean.

🐚 Greenways will be leading and participating in a handful of events throughout the week (see below). Head here to see the full schedule: https://www.oceanweekcampbellriver.ca/events

Join Greenways at:
🦀 Sea School with Explorer Lab, Wednesday, June 3rd 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

🦆 Birding Basics at Baikie Island Nature Reserve, Friday, June 5th 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BHsW8jKiV/

🦅 Bird Shoreline Sea Watch, Discovery Pier, Saturday, June 6th 10:30 AM - 3:00 PM: https://www.facebook.com/share/1PtS25hsxb/

🦉 Photo credit: the amazing , who recently joined us for birding outings during Salmonberry Nature Festival. Head here to see more of his work: https://www.mikeydparsonsphotography.com/

🚨CORRECTION - We had some details wrong on our post yesterday 🤦🐸 Don't miss Loop day this weekend!🚵‍♀️ Grab your family...
05/28/2026

🚨CORRECTION - We had some details wrong on our post yesterday 🤦

🐸 Don't miss Loop day this weekend!

🚵‍♀️ Grab your family, friends and Neighbours to walk, cycle, run or roll around our 28 km Greenways Loop!

🌤️ Visit FROG stations to grab a treat, enjoy some music at the MHC, nab some swag and meet other loopers in our community!

⚓ At the pier by the Maritime Heritage Centre:
11 am - run, walk or ride the loop
12 pm - food trucks and beer gardens open
1 pm - DJ Saskatoon Tod
3 pm - Bike Raffle Draw

FROG Stations:
🌲 Forest - Trask Road Parking Lot
🌊 River - North Meadow at the Spit
🐋 Ocean - Big Rock Park
💚 Greenways - Jubilee and Dogwood

🎉 Congratulations, Liz, on winning a gift certificate from Park Lodge & Outdoor Education Centre! 🐛 This prize was draw...
05/26/2026

🎉 Congratulations, Liz, on winning a gift certificate from Park Lodge & Outdoor Education Centre!

🐛 This prize was drawn from the top five participants who observed the most species during our iNaturalist bioblitz, which was part of Salmonberry Nature Festival at the beginning of the month. Liz won two nights in a lakeview room for two guests, valued at $490!

🐸 We had so much fun on our various expert-led outings and guest talks during the festival. We had so much amazing support from our community partners, generous prize donors, and participants. Thank you for taking part!

Address

1195-C Fir Street
Campbell River, BC
V9W3B7

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm

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+12502873785

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