6:00 onward access to Chief’s Room, Quaaout Lodge to create and set up poster sessions
7:00 pm onwards Botany BC 2006 Ice-breaker begins (appetizers, drinks and no-host bar available)
Poster sessions, final registration details, socializing@ 7:30 Introductions (First Nations, BBC Committee etc) and review of planned programDawn Morrison, native botanist and Indigenous Community Development Facilitator, – Vegetation ecology of the larger ShuswapAlex Inselberg - Shuswap botanical/ecological slide showMore socializing/poster sessions/discussion
8:30 am gather in Chief’s Room, Quaaout Lodge to pick up lunches & review day’s plans
Go to Niskonlith Meadows (9:15 am – 5;00 pm) return to Lodge by @5:30
Dinner 6:15pm – 7:30
@ 7:30 pm Presentations:
Robert Fulton, geologist – Surficial/bedrock geology of greater ShuswapMarianne Ignace, anthropologist and fluent speaker of Secwepemc – Connections between biological and linguistic diversity, as well as biological/botanical knowledge and Aboriginal language - with examples from Secwepemctsin and other BC First Nations
8:30 am gather in Chief’s Room, Quaaout Lodge, pick up lunches & review plans for the day
9:30 am Field tour to McGillivray Fire area (@9:30 – 3:00 pm)Debbie and Rob Oakland’s log home – Site restoration as result of the McGillivray 2003 forest fire (west end of Niskonlith Lake) Plan to return to Lodge by 5:30
Dinner 6:00pm – 7:00
7:00 After dinner entertainment/presentations
Presentation by Bob Lincoln “South Okanagan – Similkameen; at the Cross-Roads” an overview of the ecological attributes of the Okanagan Valley as the sole post-glacial corridor. George Scotter will also be present to provide info on the South Okanagan National Park proposal.Cultural presentation with Ernie Philip. Ernie is full-blooded Canadian Shuswap (Secwepmenc) First Nation with a passion for dance and Native Heritage.AGM - Lively presentations for future Botany BCs
9:00 am pack-up and checkout - gather in Chief’s Room, Quaaout Lodge
Possible Field tours –
Harper Lake Eco-cultural Restoration Project (to the west, back towards Kamloops);Enderby Cliffs day hike in North Okanagan;Campbell-Brown (Kalamalka Lake) Ecological Reserve, adjacent to Hwy 97, featuring a rattlesnake den and Okanagan Very Hot Interior Douglas-fir vegetationRoderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park or walk trails on Quaaout Resort lands on the north side of Little Shuswap Lake, where we can view some kekuli (pit house) sites and vegetation (could also do on Friday time permitting)