The Baynes Sound/Lambert Channel EcoForum is grateful for the financial and in-kind support of the following organizations:

Comox Valley Regional District * BC Shellfish Growers Association * Islands Trust

Vancouver Island University * Association of Denman Island Marine Stewards*

*The Lush Charity Pot*

Steering Committee:

The EcoForum is guided by the volunteer efforts of Co-Chair Carl Butterworth(manager of the Vancouver Island University Marine Field Station; Co-Chair Chris Pearce, Biologist, DFO; Secretary Dorrie Woodward, Chair of Association of Denman Island Marine Stewards; Treasurer Nico Prins,(Executive Director of BC Shellfish Growers Association); Chief Mike Recalma, Qualicum First Nation; Candace Newman, Councillor, K’omoks First Nation; Connie Graham, Territorial Stewardship Manager, Tla’amin Nation; Sam Borthwick, Islands Trust Trustee, Denman Island; Dr. John Neilson, former Scientist Emeritus, DFO.

Past & Present Members

Islands Trust

Comox Valley Regional District

Regional District of Nanaimo

Mayor, Town of Comox

K’omoks First Nation

Qualicum First Nation

Tla’amin Nation

BC Shellfish Growers Association

Fanny Bay Oysters

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations

BC Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship

Association of Denman Island Marine Stewards

Project Watershed

Conservancy Hornby Island

Friends of Baynes Sound

Vancouver Island University

Simon Fraser University

Denman Hornby Canoes and Kayaks

Sea Change Marine Conservation Society

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Herring Conservation and Research Society

World Wildlife Fund

West Coast Environmental Law