With Saanich about to rejig its tree protection bylaw, it’s the perfect time to bring current research to bear on urban forests, which Daniel says operate like an electrical grid, connected by a microbiome. “More trees have come down in North Saanich in the last six months than in the last six years,” says Daniel. This term, students created two videos: one on the importance of pollinators in the region, and one on the key supports that Mother Trees provide in forest ecosystems, whether large or small. It’s such a place of innovation and talent,” Daniel says.ĭaniel, who is an amazing listener and a lively pleasure to work with, is currently paired with six of my Community Mapping students, as well as students from Crystal Tremblay’s Community-Based Participatory Research class, both in the Geography department. “Very quickly, the land and the water took hold of my spirit and it felt so good. When she and her family left, she was looking to recharge and to try a new chapter: “I wanted to focus on what nature needs.” The family landed in Saskatchewan and drove to the Island. Daniel has lived throughout the USA, Canada and in Scotland, where she ran a retreat centre for youth from difficult backgrounds on the Isle of Skye until 2005. She is also one of only a small number of certified biomimicry professionals that uses nature’s brilliance to guide design and solve problems.
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Other projects in the region, like the Little Free Library map, are great tools but represent one of many individual sites that must be visited.Ī mediator and conflict resolution specialist, Daniel is a founding member of The Roy Group, a leadership development firm. The UVic Mapping Collaboratory once filled that community mapping piece, but lack of steady funding has meant some of the site is no longer updated or accessible. The CRD’s Natural Areas Atlas provides some ecosystem mapping, but not all and it’s missing citizen science and place-making features, which allow residents to contribute their own sense of connection to land and an accounting of its important features. One of the key gaps the RUSH initiative hopes to fill is that of a one-stop shop for social and ecosystem mapping, data sets, participatory modelling, citizen science, and community-based research. Since then, she’s been planning its 2022 launch off the side of her desk, collaborating with place-makers, academics, students, developers and government in the region to tackle some of its most wicked problems. Now all her idea needs is funding.Īnne-Marie Daniel: “I wanted to focus on what nature needs.”ĭaniel approached her friend and colleague, architect Christine Lintott, and they began to talk, plan, “mess around trying to find the levers,” and eventually settled on the Resilience Urban Systems and Habitat (RUSH) Initiative. I wanted answers to opportunities and gaps, and to know it yesterday.” The urgency of the region’s increasing fragility-in the face of longer summers, decreasing natural areas and a complex tangle of politics-seemed to call for action. “I wanted resilient mapping in record time. Climate change, even before this year’s heat wave and atmospheric river pummelled the BC coast, was already making itself known.
The forest near her home was suffering from drought and an influx of invasive ivy. “I thought, ‘we need to get the cards on the table, to know what we’re dealing with,’” she tells me from her home in North Saanich. A biomimicry professional, who looks to nature’s brilliance to guide design and solve problems, is leading the charge for social and ecosystem mapping of the CRD.įIVE YEARS AGO, Anne-Marie Daniel woke up from a dream about the region’s languishing environmental health.
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