Several schools in the TCRSB took part in the 8th annual Gulf of
Maine Institute (GOMI) Summer Workshops - this year held in
Sackville, New Brunswick. The TCRSB schools travel to this workshop
held in either a New England State or a Maritime Province each year,
and attend environmental workshops with the support of the Board and
several local environmental groups such as TREPA (the Tusket River
Environmental Protection Assocation) and the Tusket River Chapter of
Trout Unlimited Canada.
The
Barrington High School team
is working on dune restoration, PIping Plover habitat and
protection, their school grounds, and an adopt-a-stream project on
the Barrington River. The
Yarmouth Junior High School
team has adopted Broad Brook, the town's future Central Park
greenway. The
Digby/Islands Consolidated School
team has adopted the Northeast Cove watershed and is doing
environmental studies and proposing trail connections to the
community.
Through these
initiatives, New England and Canadian Maritime youth are developing
networks across political boundaries to better understand and
steward a joint ecosystem. These relationships will lead to
international collaboration. A clean, sustainable Gulf of Maine
watershed is of enormous importance economically and recreationally
as is a replicable model for other watersheds throughout Canada and
the US.
Read
the full GOMI article
here
