Sounds of the Night
Explore the trails as we listen to, and learn about nocturnal birds, frogs and other wildlife that come awake in the evening. Please dress for the weather. Meet at the front entrance of the Champlain Heights Community Centre (3350 Maquinna Drive).
This event is $18.
Indigenous Species Planting and Invasive Pull
Get dirty, have fun and help the environment! Join us Everett Crowley Park Committee for our fall planting event to help plant native shrubs and learn more about the unique history and ecology of Everett Crowley Park. Gloves, tools and light refreshments are provided. Please dress appropriately for the weather and wear sturdy, close-toed shoes. Weather permitting.
Please pre-register.
Wreath Making Workshop
Join eco-artist Erica Mulder for a Wreath Making workshop. Make your own wreath with a mix of native and non-native plants! We'll start by weaving wreath bases out of invasive holly branches. From there we'll decorate them with Douglas fir, holly, cedar, red alder and more. Participants will be invited to learn about the plants they are using and better understand them while working with them.
About the artist:
Erica Mulder (she/her) is a mixed European settler who grew up in Burnaby, BC. She's interested in exploring our relationship with plants and how it's shaped by social and political forces. She's particularly focused on invasive and native plants. She builds relationships with invasive plants both by doing removal work and exploring uses for these plants, including dyeing, paper making and weaving. She works to help spread native plants through her work with Starseed Collective, a project that mails free natives seeds to people on Coast Salish land.
Champlain Heights Winter Fair
Join us for the beginning of winter with festive fun! There will be crafts, play gym with bouncy castle, light refreshments, photos with Santa and much more.
Bird Walk
Whether you are a new or experienced birder, join the Everett Crowley Park Committee and our experienced bird facilitators for a bird walk in Everett Crowley Park. Everett Crowley Park is a hotspot for birders in Metro Vancouver and it is home to 120 species of bird including both migratory and resident species. This is a great opportunity to learn about birds and how they are connected to the wider ecosystem. This walk will also offer an opportunity to meet new people and become more familiar with Everett Crowley Park.
This event is part of regular bird programming facilitated by ECPC’s Bird Team. Take a look at Everett Crowley Park Committee’s other events to sign up for more birding opportunities.
Please pre register for this event. This event is focused at participants 10+ years old. Meet at the Kerr Street Parking lot/ Kerr street entrance to Everett Crowley park.
Christmas Bird Count
Whether you are a new or experienced birder, join the Everett Crowley Park Committee to help contribute to vital citizen-science by engaging in bird point-counts in Everett Crowley Park. Everett Crowley Park is a hotspot for birders in Metro Vancouver and it is home to 120 species of birds including both migratory and resident species. This is a great opportunity to learn about birds, develop environmental fieldwork skills, and to contribute to long term data in Everett Crowley Park. Data collected will be used to inform future environmental restoration efforts and infrastructure.
Please dress appropriately for the weather and wear sturdy, close-toed shoes. Weather permitting.
No previous bird watching experience required, all instructions and supplies provided. Hot drinks will be served, personal binoculars and mugs are encouraged.
Please pre register for this event. This event is focused at participants 15+ years old. Meet at the Kerr Street Parking lot/ Kerr street entrance to Everett Crowley park.
Bird Point Count Survey
Whether you are a new or experienced birder, join the Everett Crowley Park Committee to help contribute to vital citizen-science by engaging in bird point-counts in Everett Crowley Park. Everett Crowley Park is a hotspot for birders in Metro Vancouver and it is home to 120 species of birds including both migratory and resident species. This is a great opportunity to learn about birds, develop environmental fieldwork skills, and to contribute to long term data in Everett Crowley Park. Data collected will be used to inform future environmental restoration efforts and infrastructure.
Please dress appropriately for the weather and wear sturdy, close-toed shoes. Weather permitting.
No previous bird watching experience required, all instructions and supplies provided. Hot drinks will be served, personal binoculars and mugs are encouraged.
Please pre register for this event. This event is focused at participants 15+ years old. Meet at the Kerr Street Parking lot/ Kerr street entrance to Everett Crowley park.
Indigenous Species Planting and Invasive Pull
Get dirty, have fun and help the environment! Join us Everett Crowley Park Committee for our fall planting event to help plant native shrubs and learn more about the unique history and ecology of Everett Crowley Park. Gloves, tools and light refreshments are provided. Please dress appropriately for the weather and wear sturdy, close-toed shoes. Weather permitting.
Please pre-register.
Bird Walk
Whether you are a new or experienced birder, join the Everett Crowley Park Committee and our experienced bird facilitators for a bird walk in Everett Crowley Park. Everett Crowley Park is a hotspot for birders in Metro Vancouver and it is home to 120 species of bird including both migratory and resident species. This is a great opportunity to learn about birds and how they are connected to the wider ecosystem. This walk will also offer an opportunity to meet new people and become more familiar with Everett Crowley Park.
This event is part of regular bird programming facilitated by ECPC’s Bird Team. Take a look at Everett Crowley Park Committee’s other events to sign up for more birding opportunities.
Please pre register for this event. This event is focused at participants 10+ years old. Meet at the Kerr Street Parking lot/ Kerr street entrance to Everett Crowley park.
Mushroom Walk with Willoughby Arevalo
With hands of an artist, eyes of an ecologist, and the heart of a deeply connected human, DIY Mushroom Cultivation author Willoughby Arévalo brings the practical and the joyful together through the science and wonder of mycology. His work is an invitation to not only learn from fungi, but to grow one’s true earthy relationships.
Tracing mycelial webs through the forest, we will encounter and observe fungi with multiple senses to try to understand their worlds, lifeways, relationships and behaviour. The conversation will include basic principles of mushroom identification based on features visible with the naked eye, helping you be able to recognize mushroom form groups and work towards learning important genera and species. Learn where and how to safely collect specimens for ID and an honourable harvest. Connect with resources for further learning. Special attention will be given to some of the most ecologically impactful, edible, medicinal and toxic species.
Please pre register - this event is $15 per person.
Indigenous Species Planting and Invasive Pull
Get dirty, have fun and help the environment! Join us Everett Crowley Park Committee for our fall planting event to help plant native shrubs and learn more about the unique history and ecology of Everett Crowley Park. Gloves, tools and light refreshments are provided. Please dress appropriately for the weather and wear sturdy, close-toed shoes. Weather permitting.
Please pre-register. Meet at the front entrance to the Champlain Heights Community Centre (3350 Maquinna Dr).
Bird Point Count Survey
Whether you are a new or experienced birder, join the Everett Crowley Park Committee to help contribute to vital citizen-science by engaging in bird point-counts in Everett Crowley Park. Everett Crowley Park is a hotspot for birders in Metro Vancouver and it is home to 120 species of birds including both migratory and resident species. This is a great opportunity to learn about birds, develop environmental fieldwork skills, and to contribute to long term data in Everett Crowley Park. Data collected will be used to inform future environmental restoration efforts and infrastructure.
Please dress appropriately for the weather and wear sturdy, close-toed shoes. Weather permitting.
No previous bird watching experience required, all instructions and supplies provided. Hot drinks will be served, personal binoculars and mugs are encouraged.
Please pre register for this event. This event is focused at participants 15+ years old. Meet at the Kerr Street Parking lot/ Kerr street entrance to Everett Crowley park.
Sounds of the Night
Explore the trails as we listen to, and learn about nocturnal birds, frogs and other wildlife that come awake in the evening. Please dress for the weather. Meet at the front entrance of the Champlain Heights Community Centre (3350 Maquinna Drive).
This event is $18.
Environmental Stewardship
Get dirty, have fun and help the environment! Join us Everett Crowley Park Committee for monthly stewardship events to help remove invasive plants and learn more about the unique history and ecology of Everett Crowley Park. Gloves, tools and light refreshments are provided. Please dress appropriately for the weather and wear sturdy, close-toed shoes. Weather permitting.
Please pre-register. Meet at the front entrance to the Champlain Heights Community Centre (3350 Maquinna Dr).
Contact ECPC stewards at ecpcstewards@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Bird Walk
Whether you are a new or experienced birder, join the Everett Crowley Park Committee and our experienced bird facilitators for a bird walk in Everett Crowley Park. Everett Crowley Park is a hotspot for birders in Metro Vancouver and it is home to 120 species of bird including both migratory and resident species. This is a great opportunity to learn about birds and how they are connected to the wider ecosystem. This walk will also offer an opportunity to meet new people and become more familiar with Everett Crowley Park.
This event is part of regular bird programming facilitated by ECPC’s Bird Team. Take a look at Everett Crowley Park Committee’s other events to sign up for more birding opportunities.
Please pre register for this event. This event is focused at participants 10+ years old. Meet at the Kerr Street Parking lot/ Kerr street entrance to Everett Crowley park.
Indigenous Led Nature Walk with LoriAnn Bird
LoriAnn Bird (Snyder) is a Metis author, herbalist and educator, with a deep knowledge of medicinal & edible plants that grow in the most common and everyday spaces. Witnessing and listening to our immediate surroundings, we experience the relationship with all that exists. In a time when our connection to the land on which we live grows ever more tenuous, LoriAnn offers us an opportunity to reconnect & reclaim our own history.
Remembering the wisdom of ancestral relatives who, for thousands of years, were nourished by lands & waters and cared deeply for its gifts for future generations. Let's be good ancestors.
The Everett Crowley Park Committee is excited to be joined again by LoriAnn Bird for another nature walk and talk. Join us to learn from Lori's extensive knowledge of plants and wildlife and their uses throughout time. Lori will share her knowledge of indigenous uses of plants and teach us how to appreciate the ecosystem around us.
LoriAnn also shares her knowledge through writing in her new book Revered Roots, Ancient wisdom and teachings of wild, native and medicinal Plants!
This event is funded by the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation Community Grant.
Water Monitoring
Join the Everett Crowley Park Committee for a water monitoring workshop Everett Crowley Park. During this workshop we will use a Water Rangers kit to measure key indicators of water body health including dissolved oxygen, pH and alkalinity. This is a great opportunity to learn more about Everett Crowley Park, meet new people, and develop new skills.
All materials and training will be provided, this event is suitable for both beginners and experienced water monitors.
Please pre register for this event. This event is focused at participants 16+ years old.
Environmental Stewardship
Get dirty, have fun and help the environment! Join us Everett Crowley Park Committee for monthly stewardship events to help remove invasive plants and learn more about the unique history and ecology of Everett Crowley Park. Gloves, tools and light refreshments are provided. Please dress appropriately for the weather and wear sturdy, close-toed shoes. Weather permitting.
Please pre-register.