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GET INVOLVED!

The Burns Bog Conservation Society needs your help to carry out its programs. This includes providing facilities for public enjoyment (the boardwalks in the Delta Nature Reserve is an example), providing education (this includes bog-related educational material, field trips, summer day camps and public displays) and raising public awareness about current issues relating to peatlands, especially Burns Bog.

What you can do:

Welcome to Burns Bog Project

No experience required!  But if you have any expertise in the following areas, it will be appreciated. Lots of fresh air and exercise guaranteed.

Help:

• Build more boardwalks to protect the Bog in the Delta Nature Reserve
• Pull invasive plants to protect and encourage the growth of native bog plants
• Conduct wildlife surveys
• Showcase native bog plants
• Vegetation surveying

Contact: Bree at 604.572.0373 and sign up.

Fundraise

• Hold a garage sale: donate the proceeds to the Burns Bog Conservation Society.
• Collect pledges for the Jog for the Bog Trail Run, September 23rd

See our website www.jog4thebog.com for registration and details about pledges and prizes.

• Have a birthday party: ask your friends and family to send a gift to the Burns Bog Conservation Society in your honour. It’s one gift you won’t have to dust, polish or water.
• Hold a dinner in your home. Donate the proceeds to the Society. Contact us and we will send you information brochures for your guests.
• Hold a barbeque in your backyard. Charge guests (children free).
• Pancake Breakfast: Serve an all-you-can eat breakfast from 7:30 to 11:00am on a weekend morning.
• Hold a cocktail Party: Remember to have non-alcoholic drinks and appetizers at your event.
• Enjoy shopping online?  Go to www.PeacefulValleyGifts.com and we will receive a 10% commission on your purchase. Or join: www.iGive.com and choose the Burns Bog Conservation Society as your charity of choice.
• Frustrated actor? Contact Bree at 604.572.0373 and volunteer for our 1st Annual Haunted Hallowe’en Garden. We are partnering with DRS Earthwise Society.
• Join our Events Committee: collect in-kind prizes valued between $25-50 for our Balloon sale at Celebrating Women & the Spirit of the Cranes or major prizes valued at more than $100 for the Silent Auction. Help with the planning and organizing. Contact Bree or Eliza for regular meeting dates.
• Join our Jog for the Bog Committee: we need volunteers for the day of the event, sponsors, committee members to help in the organizing. Contact: Bree at 604.572.0373.
• Learn how to give tours: we need more people trained to give tours of the Delta Nature Reserve. If you like people and sharing information this is for you. Weekdays and weekends available. A Criminal Record Check is required.
• Have a car? Use a Husky Community Rebate card every time you fill up. Two percent of what you purchase comes to the Society at no cost to you. Contact the office and we will send you a card.
• Create your own “a-thon:” Collect pledges for every mile you walk, bike, or every hour you rock in a rocking chair, or some other measurement of endurance.
• Challenge a friend, company, and organization to see who can raise the most: this can be for the Jog for the Bog Trail Run, September 23rd or for your own “a-thon.”
• Sponsor a child: Do you know a child who would love to come to our summer day camps, but his/her parents can’t afford it? For only $125 you can give a child week’s worth of wilderness experience learning survival skills, identifying plants and animals in the Delta Nature Reserve.
• Attend: one of our events and bring friends. International Bog Day is the last Sunday of July. (10388 Nordel Court, Delta) Nominate a worthy woman and attend Celebrating Women & the Spirit of the Cranes. (This year nominations open Sept. 4th and March 8, 2008 is the banquet.) Bring a child to the Haunted Hallowe’en Garden, October 29 to 31st. Contact Bree for more details.
• Sponsor one of our events: Showcase your company’s support for the environment and offset your carbon footprint by sponsoring one of our special events.

• Celebrating Women & the Spirit of the Cranes
• International Bog Day
• JOG FOR THE BOG Trail Run
• Haunted Hallowe’en Garden
• Our ongoing education programs

Have fun while working to protect the “lungs of the Lower Mainland.”

Other things to do to save the Bog

If none of the above appeals to you, we need you to write letters to your Member of Parliament, Member of the Provincial legislature, Al Gore, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California (their addresses are on the internet) and let them know how you feel about:

• The South Fraser Perimeter Road and its impacts on Burns Bog.
• Controlled access to the main Bog (this will include boardwalks, guides and trained volunteers to monitor the Bog)
• An interpretive centre for Burns Bog.

Members of Parliament: Letters to them are postage free. Just write O.H.M.S. in place of a stamp.

For more addresses and names go to: http://canada.gc.ca/directories/direct_e.html

(An email may be faster, but one hand-written letter represents to opinion of up to 1000 people. And politicians pay more attention to them.)

Members of the BC Legislature: Postage is required on letters to MLAs.

Hon. Gordon Campbell                               Hon. Barry Penner
Premier of British Columbia                          Minister of the Environment
Room 156                                                   Room 112
Parliament Buildings                                    Parliament Buildings
Victoria, BC  V8V 1X4                                   Victoria, BC  V8V 1X4
Email:Gordon.Campbell.mla@leg.bc.ca             Email: barry.penner.mla@leg.bc.ca

For more addresses and names, go to www.gov.bc.ca