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Protect Rock City Wetland is a community-led initiative bringing people together to protect the Wetland and cultivate relationships of kinship, care, learning and shared responsibility for its ongoing health and vitality.

10/16/2026

See everyone wearing their Wetland colours on Sunday at the Rock City Wetland 🐸🦫💚3500 Rock City Road.

Arrive 12:45 pm at Welcome area, park and be ready for 1pm start in the Wetland with a traditional welcome by C’tasi:a Geraldine Manson, Snuneymuxw Elder and Knowlege Keeper.

10/15/2026

Let’s infuse Rock City Fen with love. :
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Join us this Sunday for Voices for the Wetlands: Singing to Rock City Fen. Organized by Rock City Wetland, this event is an offering of singing, poetry, listening and Earth Art in kinship with the Fen and all the beings who call it home.

We’ll begin with a Traditional Welcome by C’tasi:a Geraldine Manson, Snuneymuxw Elder and Knowledge Keeper followed by Song leaders: Danielea Castell, Sylvia Humble and April Laurie.

Sunday, October 18
Rock City Wetland, Nanaimo, on Snuneymuxw Territory
Public trail entrance: Welcome area, 3500 Rock City Road
• 12–12:45 pm: Come early to make Earth Art
• 12:45 pm: begin arriving at Welcome area for our 1 pm start
• 1–2:15 pm (approx): Group offering
• Afterwards: Warm tea, snacks and sharing. Bring something to share. Places have been made for sitting.

We invite you to stay for the whole group offering as we move together among three places within the Wetland.

Wear Wetland colours if you have them: bright and olive greens, browns, yellows, muted oranges and grey. Dress for the weather.
Please share this invitation with someone who loves the Wetland too.

MEET OUR TERRAFORMING CORAL REEF-LIKE RCW RESIDENTThis delightfully wild-haired little plant is Sphagnum squarrosum, com...
10/07/2026

MEET OUR TERRAFORMING CORAL REEF-LIKE RCW RESIDENT

This delightfully wild-haired little plant is Sphagnum squarrosum, commonly called spiky bog-moss.

And despite the name "bog-moss," guess where it particularly likes to grow?

Fens. 💚

Sphagnum squarrosum is more tolerant of mineral-rich conditions like the RCW than many other Sphagnum species . But underneath the cute exterior is a tiny wetland engineer.

Sphagnum mosses interact with the water and chemistry around them, helping shape the conditions in which wetland communities develop. S. squarrosum can also be an early colonizer during wetland succession. It is the first sphagnum to colonize wetlands, producing more spores than any other Sphagnum species!

Finding it at Rock City Wetland gives us one more little piece of the ecological puzzle of this remarkable place.

And honestly...

10/10 moss

CoCreating and Reciprocity with Rock City Fen. Making beautiful bundles from the dropped, dying and decaying parts of th...
10/06/2026

CoCreating and Reciprocity with Rock City Fen. Making beautiful bundles from the dropped, dying and decaying parts of the Wetland bodies.

These will form points of focus in our two main sites on Oct 18.

Two women are from my S.E.E.D community and two are from Rock City Neighbourhood. I am grateful for all my new friendships that Rock City Fen has catalyzed. Thank you Mary Littlejohn (nw turtle island), Jenni Kepler-Oetillier (Germany), Leah Green (Australia) and Magdalena (Mexico).

What if this is one of the main reasons this situation is happening?

Last night, Nanaimo City Council approved the rezoning of the East Wellington / Northfield Bluffs lands to light industr...
10/06/2026

Last night, Nanaimo City Council approved the rezoning of the East Wellington / Northfield Bluffs lands to light industrial. (For: Perrino, Thorpe, Krog, Hemmens, Armstrong; against:

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